AP 2011-10-29
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(十月)
英语课
1. Crews in Turkey are working frantically 1 to pull more survivors 2 from the rubble 3 of Sunday's earthquake. As many as 9 people including this two-week-old baby girl were rescued on Tuesday.
2. A US diplomatic official says Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has met with the American ambassador in Sanaa to discuss stepping down. The State Department says this is the first meeting since Saleh returned from Saudi Arabia, where he was being treated after an assassination 4 attempt.
3. A nurse who treated Michael Jackson has testified that the singer asked her to get him the powerful anesthetic 5 propofol two months before he died. She says Jackson complained that he couldn't sleep, and propofol was the only thing that would help.
4. A government panel is recommending that young boys also get the controversial HPV shot. Doctors argue it could protect boys from some cancers and it could help prevent the spread of HPV, a sexually transmitted virus to girls.
1 frantically
ad.发狂地, 发疯地
- He dashed frantically across the road. 他疯狂地跑过马路。
- She bid frantically for the old chair. 她发狂地喊出高价要买那把古老的椅子。
2 survivors
幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
- 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
3 rubble
n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
4 assassination
n.暗杀；暗杀事件
- The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
- Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
5 anesthetic
n.麻醉剂，麻药；adj.麻醉的，失去知觉的
- He was given a general anesthetic.他被全身麻醉。
- He was still under the influence of the anesthetic.他仍处在麻醉状态。