时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十一)月


英语课

1. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama make their last-minute pleas 1 to voters days before Election Day. McCain says Obama is running for redistributor in chief while Obama told radio listeners his election would change the world.


2. Obama's aunt is living in the United States illegally in Boston, instructed to leave four years ago by an immigration judge denying her request for asylum 2 from her native, Kenya. Obama says he did not know she was here illegally.


3. At least 29 people died in Pakistan from a suspected US missile strike on two villages near the Afghanistan border. A senior Taliban official narrowly escaped the attack.


4. Chicago is remembering Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, capturing the city in the pages of his best-selling oral histories. Terkel died Friday. He was 96.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. instruct: v.


to officially tell someone what to do.


2. asylum: n.


protection given to someone by a government because they have escaped from fighting or political trouble in their own country.


 



借口( plea的名词复数 ); (被告或被告律师的)抗辩; (法庭中的)理由; 请愿
  • He sent her away without even listening to her pleas. 他甚至不肯听她的哀诉就把她遣走了。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • Shousheng came out and added his pleas to Mr. Lin's. 寿生也来了,帮着林先生说。 来自汉英文学 - 林家铺子
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
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