AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-14
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. The search for missing Caylee Anthony In Florida turns out some sort of bag with toys and what appears to be bones but no sign of the three-year-old girl. Caylee has not been seen since June, her mother has pleaded not guilty to murder.
2. It was a seesaw 1 day on Wall Street with the Dow briefly 2 dipping below 8,000 before finishing up by about 550 points. Free markets got strong backing from President Bush, during a speech in Manhattan.
3. A suicide car bomber 3 attacks a US military convoy 4 passing through a crowded market in Afghanistan, killing 5 at least eight civilians 6 and an American soldier, wounding 74 people. No one is taking responsibility for the blast but it bears the marks of Taliban militants 7.
4. In Brazil, free Botox injections for people earning less than 250 dollars a month. A medical society offering the shots says it lets student doctors get experience while giving people a chance to get luxury treatments they could not otherwise afford.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. seesaw: adj.
In a seesaw situation, something continually changes from one state to another and back again.
2. Botox: 肉毒素
- Prices have gone up and down like a seesaw this year.今年的价格像跷跷板一样时涨时跌。
- The children are playing at seesaw.孩子们在玩跷跷板。
- I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
- He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
- Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
- The convoy was snowed up on the main road.护送队被大雪困在干路上了。
- Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.战舰将护送该船队过大西洋。
- 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 bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。