美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-11
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月
1. President Barack Obama is announcing a wide-ranging education policy that embraces merit pay for teachers and a longer school day and year. He also wants to end limits on charter schools.
2. Police in Northern Ireland say they have two suspects in custody 1 in the case of a policeman killed last night in an attack claimed by an IRA splinter group. Police say the officer was shot in the back of the head as he sat in his patrol car. That attack follows a deadly ambush 2 Saturday when two British soldiers were killed by another dissident group.
3. Atlantic City's eleven casinos posted a more than 19% drop in revenue last month. That's the biggest monthly decline in the state's 30-year history of legalized gambling 3. Every casino in the city saw a decline, several experienced a nearly 30% decline.
4. Three dozen homes along Michigan's Saginaw Bay have an unwelcome visitor, an ice flow has literally 4 run into them. High winds push the ice over a seawall.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. wide-ranging: adj.
If you describe something as wide-ranging, you mean it deals with or affects a great variety of different things.
2. IRA: the Irish Republican Army
an illegal organization that wants to unite Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
3. splinter group:
a group of people that have separated from a political or religious organization because they have different ideas.
4. dissident: adj
Dissident people disagree with or criticize their government or a powerful organization they belong to.
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
- Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。
- They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
- The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。