AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-29
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十一)月
1.New York’s Jewish community as well as a mediation 1 center in Virginia are in mourning after they both lost members of their community in the terror attacks in India. A rabbi from New York and his wife were killed at a Jewish center in Mumbai while a Virginian man and his daughter were gunned down at a hotel there.
2.Indian commandos are still battling militants 2 holed up in a hotel in Mumbai. Gunfire could be heard through the night there as they tried to flush out the remaining terrorists.
3.It's been a rather bleak 3 black Friday. At least three people have been killed at shopping centers in the U.S. A Wal-Mart employee died after he was trampled 5 by overanxious customers in New York and two people have been killed in a shooting at a Toys “R” Us in California.
4.The oldest woman in the world has died. Edna Parker was 115 when she passed away Wednesday at a nursing home in Indiana. The title now falls to a Portuguese 6 woman who was born back in 1893.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.mediation center: n.
A mediation center offers the service of facilitation to assist others to discuss their conflicts and to agree on ways to resolve them
2.rabbi: n.
Rabbi a scholar qualified 7 to interpret Jewish law
3.commando: n.
a soldier who is specially 8 trained to make quick attacks into enemy areas
4.bleak: adj.
without anything to make you feel happy or hopeful
to step heavily on something, so that you crush it with your feet
6.Toys “R” Us: n.
Toys "R" Us is the leading kids store for toys, video games, baby products, etc.
- The dispute was settled by mediation of the third country. 这场争端通过第三国的斡旋而得以解决。
- The dispute was settled by mediation. 经调解使争端得以解决。
- 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。
- They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
- The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。
- Don't trample on the grass. 勿踏草地。
- Don't trample on the flowers when you play in the garden. 在花园里玩耍时,不要踩坏花。
- He gripped his brother's arm lest he be trampled by the mob. 他紧抓着他兄弟的胳膊，怕他让暴民踩着。
- People were trampled underfoot in the rush for the exit. 有人在拼命涌向出口时被踩在脚下。
- They styled their house in the Portuguese manner.他们仿照葡萄牙的风格设计自己的房子。
- Her family is Portuguese in origin.她的家族是葡萄牙血统。