AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-04
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(四)月
1. Multiple people have been killed in an attack on an immigration services center in Binghamton, New York. The gunman reportedly barricaded 1 the rear door of the building with his car before entering the front door and opening fire.
2. Courting Europe with an American-style campaign, President Barack Obama on Friday talked up his plans to eliminate nuclear weapons, close the Guantanamo Bay prison and tackle global warming at a town hall meeting in Strasbourg, France.
3. The nation's unemployment rate jumped to 8.5% in March, the highest since 1983 as employers cut some 600,000 jobs last month. It's fresh evidence of the total recession has inflicted 2 on America's workers and economists 3 say there is no relief in sight.
4. Seattle Mariners 4 star outfielder Ichiro Suzuki is being treated for a bleeding ulcer 5 and was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday for the first time in his career, sending Seattle into opening day minus one of baseball's best players.
- The police barricaded the entrance. 警方在入口处设置了路障。
- The doors had been barricaded. 门都被堵住了。
- They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team. 他们使主队吃了一场很没面子的败仗。
- Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her. 卓娅英勇地承受法西斯匪徒加在她身上的酷刑。
- The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
- Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Mariners were also able to fix their latitude by using an instrument called astrolabe. 海员们还可使用星盘这种仪器确定纬度。
- The ancient mariners traversed the sea. 古代的海员漂洋过海。