AP 2009-09-23
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(九)月
1. Three men charged with lying to federal authorities in a terrorism investigation 1 are expected to appear in court today. Court documents claim one of the men has admitted to being trained by al-Qaeda and played a direct role in an alleged 2 terrorist plot.
2. Police in Florida say this man is a person of interest in the killings 3 of his wife and five young children. They were found dead over the weekend. Investigators 4 say Mesac Damas boarded a flight to Haiti last week.
3. A legally insane killer 5 is back in custody 6 in Washington State after slipping away from a field trip to a fair from his mental institution. Phillip Paul surrendered without incident yesterday about 180 miles from where he disappeared.
4. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans flocked to a "peace concert" in Havana. Some officials used the event to put down the US trade embargo 7 against the country. But the performers say the show was about music, not politics.
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- 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》
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。