AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-01-26
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(一)月
1. Police say two people were killed and seven more wounded in a shooting during a wake in Kansas. Authorities say all the victims were adults with one victim in critical condition and as many as four others in serious condition. Police are looking for a pickup 1 truck seen leaving the home.
2. The mother of Branch Davidian sect 2 leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death. Koresh’s aunt is charged with the killing 3. Bonnie Clark Halderman was found dead at her sister's home in Texas. Koresh was killed in the 1993 standoff in Waco.
3. Rescue teams in Turkey are struggling to save the survivors 4 of a deadly avalanche 5. At least 11 hikers died after the avalanche swept them away, dragging some more than 1,600 feet. Officials say one person is hurt, five others escaped unharmed.
4. And Prince Harry 6 and long-time girlfriend Chelsy Davy are calling it quits. The News of the World reports the breakup happened last week. The couple had been together for about five years.
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1. Branch Davidian:
大卫教派（Branch Davidians）是美国一个基督教极端教派，起于1934年，由保加利亚裔美国人维克多·豪迪夫（Victor Houteff，或译维克多·胡太佛）创立，后来分裂为不同派别。1993年美国执法人员围困大卫·考雷什（原名Vernon Howell，1990年改名David Koresh）所领导的其中一派在得克萨斯州韦科镇附近的总部，造成双方共96人在事件中死亡。
- I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。
- When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.他16岁的时候加入了一个宗教教派。
- Each religious sect in the town had its own church.该城每一个宗教教派都有自己的教堂。
- 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。
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者