美联社新闻一分钟 2008-05-31
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月
1. Hundreds of children taken from a polygamous compound may be reunited with their families as soon as Monday. It comes on the heels of a Texas court rulling that state officials went too far when they took the kids from the ranch 1.
2. A construction crane collapsed 2 Friday on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-storey apartment building as it fell to the ground. Two construction workers were killed, another seriously injured. It's the second deadly crane accident in less than two and a half months.
3. A Miami-bound plane overshot the runway and slammed into this busy street in the Honduran capital. A pilot and a passenger were killed. More than a dozen others were hurt. Weather may have been a factor in the wreck 3.
4. And it has big shoes, Manolo, of course to fill. The devotees (have) already reserved group tickets for the Sex and the City movie which hits theaters today. The flick 4 picks up where the cult-favorite show left off four years ago
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. on the heels of: idiom.
Directly behind, immediately following
2. Upper East Side: n.
A section of New York City on Manhattan Island east of Fifth Avenue. The northern part, approximately between 57th Street and 96th Street, is also known as the East Side and includes many fashionable shops and residences.
3. Manolo (Manolo Blahnik): n. 马诺洛·布拉尼克（鞋）
Established in the 1970s, Manolo Blahnik has become world famous. His beautiful shoes exude 5 a level of craftsmanship 6 rare in today's age of mass production, and he has a wonderful sense of line and silhouette 7. These talents, combined with the other footwear sense he displays and exploits, have ensured his rightful position as a true genius in his field, worthy 8 of sharing the mantle 9 worn by the other brilliant shoe designers of the 20th century, Yanturni, Vionnet, Perugia, Ferragamo, and the one he most admires—Roger Vivier.
4. flick: n.
a movie.
- He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
- The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。
- Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
- The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
- Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
- No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
- He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
- By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下，将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
- Some successful men exude self-confidence.有些成功的人流露出自信。
- The sun made him exude sweat.烈日晒得他汗流浃背。
- The whole house is a monument to her craftsmanship. 那整座房子是她技艺的一座丰碑。
- We admired the superb craftsmanship of the furniture. 我们很欣赏这个家具的一流工艺。
- I could see its black silhouette against the evening sky.我能看到夜幕下它黑色的轮廓。
- I could see the silhouette of the woman in the pickup.我可以见到小卡车的女人黑色半身侧面影。