AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-08
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
1. President-elect Barack Obama holds his first news conference since claiming the top job, saying hard work is needed to fix the economic crisis. In particular, he wants his transition team to come up with ideas to help the hard-hit auto 1 industry.
2. A jury in Atlanta convicts a 36-year-old man of murder in a 2005 shooting spree in a courthouse that left a judge and three others dead. Brian Nichols confessed to the killings 2 but said he was legally insane.
3. In Haiti, at least 30 people are dead in the collapse 3 of a school building. And the death toll 4 could rise as rescuers search for victims among the rubble 5. Roughly 500 students from kindergarten on up went to the school.
4. A zoo in Australia has a new addition--this rare pygmy hippo, about the size of a puppy. Fewer than 3,000 of these hippos are left in the wild, inhabiting the lowland tropical forests of western Africa.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. pygmy: adj.
used to describe a type of animal or plant that is much smaller than other similar types.
2. hippo: n. 河马
informal a hippopotamus 6.
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- 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。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
- A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.一头河马在加蓬的海岸附近冲浪。