美联社一分钟新闻 2008-07-28
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. Australia's Qantas Airlines has been ordered to urgently inspect every oxygen bottle aboard its fleet of Boeing 747s. Investigators 1 are focusing on the idea that an oxygen cylinder 2 might have exploded mid-flight, ripping a hole in the side of the plane. The plane had to make an emergency landing. No one was injured.
2. At least 45 people are dead and more than 100 injured after a series of blasts in India. Officials say up to 16 blasts went off Saturday night. Several Indian cities have been hit by serial 3 blasts in recent months. The attacks have been blamed on Islamic militants 4.
3. Senator Barack Obama is back in Chicago this morning. The Illinois senator returned from his overseas trip Saturday night. Obama is set to address a convention in Chicago today. His Republican opponent John McCain has no public events on his schedule today.
4. The pitcher 5 at the center of that minor 6 league baseball fight is now out of jail. Julio Castillo faces assault charges after hitting a fan in the head with a baseball. Castillo threw the ball during this brawl 7. If convicted, he could get up to eight years in prison.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. cylinder: n.
A cylinder is an object with flat circular ends and long straight sides.
2. brawl: n.
a noisy quarrel or fight among a group of people, especially in a public place.
- 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》
- What's the volume of this cylinder?这个圆筒的体积有多少？
- The cylinder is getting too much gas and not enough air.汽缸里汽油太多而空气不足。
- A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
- Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- 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。