AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-05-14)
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(五月)
1. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he's quitting office, bringing to a close the Labour Party's 13-year hold on power. His two chief rivals from last week's election have worked out a deal to form a coalition 1. The Conservative Party chief David Cameron is taking office.
2. Senators are having a hard time finding anyone who will accept blame for the oil rig explosion in the Gulf 2 of Mexico that caused a huge oil spill. They've been questioning executives of three companies that were doing work on the rig and each company is blaming one of the others.
3. Police are investigating the death of one of professional golf's young players, whose body was discovered Sunday afternoon in her suburban 3 Las Vegas home. Police in Henderson, Nevada found Erica Blasberg's body inside the home. The 25-year-old was in her 6th season on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour.
4. Families are picking through broken furniture outside their toppled homes in Oklahoma today. It's the aftermath of the violent storms, including tornadoes 4 that tore through the southern Plains Yesterday. Five people were killed and dozens more were hurt.
- The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
- Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
- There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。