AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-07-11
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(七)月
1.Illinois Senator Roland Burris says he will not run for a full term in the US Senate next year. His first few months in office dogged by controversy 1, including questions about whether he offered to raise money to disgraced former Governor Rod Blagojevich to steer 2 the seat.
2.The death toll 3 from ethnic 4 rioting in western China grows to 184 people, with a mix of dominant 5 ethnic Han Chinese group and Uigurs. This is the first time China has given an ethnic breakdown 6 in the riots.
3.A new, leaner General Motors makes a sooner-than-expected exit from bankruptcy 7 protection. The automaker is promising 8 to repay billions in government loans ahead of a deadline. But it will reduce its salaried work force by 20% this year.
4.At the Berlin Animal Park, Altai, the snow leopard 9 cub 10 greets the world. In about a week, the cub will leave his protective enclosure to stay with his parents.
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
- It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。
- 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。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
- She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。
- She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
- The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障，但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
- You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
- His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
- The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
- We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
- I saw a man in a leopard skin yesterday.我昨天看见一个穿着豹皮的男人。
- The leopard's skin is marked with black spots.豹皮上有黑色斑点。