AP 2010-11-06
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. Voting has started in the 2010 midterm elections. Republicans are trying to regain 1 control of the House and the Senate. It's expected the GOP will win back the House with the balance of the Senate still in play. President Barack Obama is expected to watch election results from the White House.
2. A US official says three suspicious packages found in September may have been a dry run for last week's mail bomb plot. The packages may have been sent to test the logistics of the air cargo 2 system. The September parcels only contain papers, books and other material. It's expected they were sent by the Yemeni militant 3 group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
3. A US navy vessel 4 is on its way toward Haiti, just in case tropical storm Thomas strengthens to a hurricane and strikes this week. The impoverished 5 nation is still not recovered from January's major earthquake and millions of people are living in tents. Thomas will be the first major storm to hit Haiti since the quake.
4. The San Francisco Giants are baseball's world champions, defeating the Texas Rangers 6 in five games. Edgar Renteria hit a three-run home run in the seventh. That was all the Tim Lincecum needed. He pitched three-hit ball over eight innings, giving up just one run. It's the first title for the Giants since 1954.
- He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
- The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
- A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
- You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
- the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
- They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》