AP 2010-11-07
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. Political watchers are predicting major changes on Capitol Hill and in several state capitals as voters cast their ballots 1 in the midterm elections. Republicans are looking to take over control of the House and deeply cut into the Democrat 2 majority in the Senate.
2. Germany's top security official says a suspicious package personally addressed to German Chancellor 3 Angela Merkel was sent from Greece and resembled the series of small mail bombs in Athens, two of which exploded outside the Russian and Swiss Embassies. Those attacks have been blamed on far-left extremists.
3. Battered 4 by January's earthquake and a recent cholera 5 outbreak, Haiti is bracing 6 for a possible hurricane. Tropical Storm Tomas is making its way across the Caribbean and is expected to strengthen over 48 hours. A US Navy vessel 7 is steaming toward Haiti to provide disaster relief if needed.
4. And in China, it's not just candy in the vending 8 machines any more. Commuters walking through the subway stations in the southern city of Nanjing can now pick up live crab 9 on the go. The crab company plans to set up machines in Shanghai and Beijing in the coming months.
- They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
- About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
- They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
- He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
- He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
- The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。
- The cholera outbreak has been contained.霍乱的发生已被控制住了。
- Cholera spread like wildfire through the camps.霍乱在营地里迅速传播。