AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-05-25
时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(五)月
1. Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts are back on Earth. Atlantis landed Sunday morning in California, ending its successful 13-day mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope. Thunderstorms prevented the shuttle from returning to its Florida home base.
2. About half a million motorcycles rolled through the nation’s capital. The organizer of the 22nd annual Rolling Thunder says motorcyclists are uniting to push for full accountability for missing soldiers and prisoners of war.
3. Iran’s government has blocked access to social networking site Facebook, move comes just weeks before national elections. Opposition 1 leaders say it was done to curb 2 their message.
4. Whitney Cerak graduated from Taylor University in Indiana this weekend. What's remarkable 3 is that three years ago her family was told she died in a van crash. She was actually in a coma 4, and part of a case of mistaken identity.
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
- You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
- She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
- These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。