AP 2011-05-30
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(五月)
1. Rescue and recovery work continues in Joplin, Missouri. Crews are combing areas they've already searched, hoping to find more survivors 1. Meantime a violent storm system continues to rumble 2 through the central part of the country.
2. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron promise to continue a military campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya. It's day two of Obama's visit to London where he became the first president to address the British parliament in Westminster Hall.
3. A Massachusetts jury has acquitted 3 Nancy Kerrigan's brother of manslaughter in the death of their 70-year-old father. But Mark Kerrigan was convicted of assault and battery for fighting with his dad. He faces a maximum of more than two years in prison.
4. And a person familiar with the investigation 4 into former Senator John Edwards' political dealings says he could be indicted 5 within days. Officials are looking into whether donations to Edwards' presidential campaign were spent to hide his affair.
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- I hear the rumble of thunder in the distance.我听到远处雷声隆隆。
- We could tell from the rumble of the thunder that rain was coming.我们根据雷的轰隆声可断定，天要下雨了。
- The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
- Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。