CNN 2008-06-01
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(六)月
Hello everyone, I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN. com newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Decision day for the Democrats 1. The National Committee's Rules Committee is meeting in Washington right now. The committee is trying to decide what to do with the delegates from Florida and Michigan. Both states you may remember lost their delegates as punishment for moving up their primaries to January.
Afghan officials say 100 suspected Taliban militants 2 have been killed. An Interior Ministry 3 spokesman says Afghan security forces aided by coalition 4 troops fought for two days to retake an area of Farah province. He says five Taliban commanders and two Afghan policemen are among the dead.
Chinese crews are working around the clock desperately 5 trying to stop another earthquake-related disaster in Sichuan province. A huge lake formed by a landslide 6 is threatening to spill over its banks and flood the hard-hit communities below. Teams are digging a spillway to drain that water. Two hundred thousand people have already been told to evacuate 7 those at-risk areas. That means many victims are being uprooted 8 yet again after first losing their homes in the earthquake.
The Atlantic Hurricane Season doesn't officially begin until tomorrow but you know what? Why wait? The first named tropical storm of the season, Authur, has formed near the coast of Belize and is already moving inland. Its maximum sustained winds are about 40 miles an hour right now. Authur is expected to weaken as it moves further inland today. Projections 9 show it moving over the Yucatan Peninsula today, then back over the Gulf 10 before it hits southern Mexico later next week.
Getting a plumber 11 to fix your toilet can be costly 12 as most of us know, but you imagine how much it's costing to fix a malfunctioning 13 toilet at the International Space Station. NASA says all systems are go for today's shuttle launch. Among the items Discovery is carrying, a new pump for the space station's toilet which has been on the fritz lately. Yuck! The shuttle is also loaded with the contribution from Japan to the space station, the Kibo lab.
Those are the headlines at this hour. For more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is your source, online, on TV, even when you are on the go.
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
- Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
- He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
- He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
- Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
- An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
- We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
- They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
- Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着，树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
- The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- Have you asked the plumber to come and look at the leaking pipe?你叫管道工来检查漏水的管子了吗？
- The plumber screwed up the tap by means of a spanner.管子工用板手把龙头旋紧。
- It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
- This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。
- But something was malfunctioning in the equipment due to human error. 但由于人为的错误，设备发生故障了。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
- Choke coils are useful for prevention of malfunctioning electronic equipment. 扼流圈对于防止电器设备的故障很有帮助。 来自互联网