AP 2010-09-30
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(九月)
1. Canadian authorities are investigating whether a bomb scare was really a terrorism hoax 1. A plane bound from Toronto to Karachi was diverted to Stockholm after Canadian authorities received a tip that a passenger was carrying explosives. No explosives were found on the plane or on the man.
2. A sudden powerful storm ripped through Haiti's capital Friday, shredding 2 thousands of tents in homeless camps and killing 3 five people including two children. More than a million people have called the camps homes since the devastating 4 quake eight months ago.
3. Lindsay Lohan didn't even have to spend a night in jail. The actress posted $300,000 bail 5 late Friday night. Lohan spent a little more than half a day in the women's detention 6 center, nowhere near the month-long stay ordered by a judge on Friday morning for failing a drug test.
4. Rescuers who battled exhaustion 7 and darkness succeeded in saving 14 pilot whales from a pod of 74 that have stranded 8 on a remote New Zealand beach.
- They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
- They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。
- Like the Tehran experience, the shredding may be all for naught. 如同德黑兰事件中的情况一样，切碎文件可能是徒劳的。 来自时文部分
- How shredding began is subject to some guesswork. 粉碎处理行业的起源是个有争议的问题。 来自时文部分
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
- She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
- She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
- His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。