AP 2010-08-09
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(八月)
1. Elena Kagan has been confirmed as the 112th Supreme 1 Court justice. She is the fourth woman to serve on the highest court. Kagan will replace another liberal justice recently retired 2 John Paul Stevens.
2. Missouri officials are confirming two deaths after a crash involving two school busses, a semi tractor and a pickup 3. The busses were carrying high school band students to an amusement park west of St. Louis. State troopers say a girl on one of the busses and the driver of the pickup were killed.
3. Crews are pumping fresh cement into BP's blown-out oil well. A government's point man on the spill says it's not the end. But he says it will virtually assure that no more crude leaks into the Gulf 4 of Mexico.
4. Moviemaker George Lucas, oilman T. Boone Pickens, CNN founder 5 Ted 6 Turner, these famous men are among 40 billionaires who have pledged to give away half of their fortunes. Fellow billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates teamed up to convince America's richest men and women to give their money to charity.
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。
- 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。
- He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
- According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。