美联社一分钟新闻 2008-07-26
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(七)月
1. New home sales fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the drop was less than expected.That's raising faint hopes that the nation's severe housing recession could be approaching a bottom.
2. A Qantas jumbo jet made an emergency landing in the Philippines after a rapid descent over the South China Sea. It's not clear what caused a hole the size of a small car in the plane's underside, but investigators 1 say it doesn't appear to be terrorism related. No one was hurt.
3. Ships are again moving up the Mississippi River from the Gulf 2 of Mexico. It comes two days after a barge 3 collided with a tanker 4 causing more than 400,000 gallons of oil to spill into the waterway.
4. And charges have been filed in connection with this bench-clearing brawl 5. A minor 6 league pitcher 7 was arrested last night for allegedly throwing a ball that hit a fan during this fight. More than a dozen players and the team's managers were ejected following the incident that lasted about ten minutes.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.Qantas
Qantas Airways 8 Limited is the national airline of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an acronym 9 for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport, and is Australia's largest airline. It is the world's second oldest continuously operating airline and the oldest in the English speaking world.
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2.jumbo jet also jumbo [countable]n.
a very large plane for carrying passengers
3.barge [countable]n.
a large low boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying goods on a canal or river
4.tanker [countable]n.
a vehicle or ship specially 10 built to carry large quantities of gas or liquid, especially oil
5.spill past tense and past participle spilt especially British English or spilled especially American English
[intransitive always + adverb/preposition]v.
if people or things spill out of somewhere, they move or fall out in large numbers [= pour]
spill out/into/onto etc
6.waterway [countable]n.
a river or canal that boats travel on
7.bench-clearing brawl
A bench-clearing brawl, sometimes known as a basebrawl, is a form of ritualistic fighting that occurs in sports, most notably 11 baseball and ice hockey, in which both teams leave their dugouts, bullpens, or benches and charge the playing area in order to fight one another.
8.pitcher [countable]n.
the player in baseball who throws the ball
9.eject [transitive]v. to make someone leave a place or building by using force
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。
- Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。
- The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
- Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
- They had nothing better to do than brawl in the street.他们除了在街上斗殴做不出什么好事。
- I don't want to see our two neighbours engaged in a brawl.我不希望我们两家吵架吵得不可开交。
- The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
- I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
- He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
- Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
- The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
- At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。
- That's a mouthful of an acronym for a very simple technology.对于一项非常简单的技术来说，这是一个很绕口的缩写词。
- TSDF is an acronym for Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities.TSDF是处理，储存和处置设施的一个缩写。