AP 2010-11-03
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(十一月)
1. The White House says President Barack Obama isn’t giving up on the House of Representatives even amid dire 1 predictions and poor polls for Democrats 2. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the president is still working to hold onto control of the chamber 3 in his last few days before the midterm elections.
2. A top University of Notre Dame 4 official says there was what he called an extraordinary burst of wind on the football field just before a tower crashed to the ground, killing 5 a student. Declan Sullivan was videotaping practice at the time of the incident.
3. An official says the death toll 6 from a tsunami 7 off western Indonesia has risen to 370. The disaster management official says the number is climbing as search and rescue teams reach remote villages on islands slammed by the ten-foot-high waves.
4. The London Zoo has welcomed a new member. A baby gorilla 8 was born there Tuesday. The unnamed animal is the first baby gorilla to be born there in 20 years.
- There were dire warnings about the dangers of watching too much TV.曾经有人就看电视太多的危害性提出严重警告。
- We were indeed in dire straits.But we pulled through.那时我们的困难真是大极了，但是我们渡过了困难。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
- The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
- The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
- If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会，你就要跟那个夫人结婚。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
- Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。