美联社新闻一分钟 2006-12-24
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. After months of negotiations 1, the UN Security Council has unanimously voted to sanction Iran over its nuclear program. The resolution prohibits all countries from providing Iran with certain material and technology that would help the country's nuclear and missile program.
2. Defense 2 Secretary Robert Gates met with President Bush and other top officials today at Camp David. Gates is just back from Iraq where he met with Iraqi officials and assessed the military situation there.
3. Slowly but surely, travelers are moving out of Denver International Airport. Lines are long and passengers are still camping out in the hallways. For those who can't get out seem to have found a little more patience.
4. Katie Rees is apologizing for the conducts that got her fired as Miss Nevada USA. She lost her crown after racy photos of her surfaced on the Internet. Rees says the pictures stemmed from an isolated 3 incident when she was a teenage
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. assess : VERB
When you assess a person, thing, or situation, you consider them in order to make a judgement about them.
2. slowly but surely : PHR
If you say that something is happening slowly but surely, you mean that it is happening gradually but it is definitely happening.
3. hallway : N-COUNT
A hallway in a house or flat is the area just inside the front door, into which some of the other rooms open.
4. racy : ADJ
Suggestive of sexual impropriety
- negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
- Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。