AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-06-29
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(六)月
1. The president of Honduras says he's the victim of a coup 1 after he was brutally 2 kidnapped by soldiers. Manuel Zelaya spoke 3 from Costa Rica, saying he was detained shortly before voting was to begin on a constitutional referendum.
2. Florida police say TV pitchman Billy Mays has died in his Tampa home. Authorities say Mays was pronounced dead Sunday morning after his wife discovered him unresponsive. There were no signs of a break-in and investigators 4 do not suspect foul 5 play.
3. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford says he did briefly 6 consider resigning after his extramarital affair became public. Sanford spoke to the AP outside his coastal 7 home on Sullivans Island. The governor admitted last week to a year-long affair with a woman in Argentina but vows 8 to stay in office.
4. Los Angeles police say the doctor who's with Michael Jackson in his final moments is cooperating with the investigation 9. A spokeswoman for Doctor Conrad Murray says he's not a suspect. Murray reportedly performed CPR on Jackson until paramedics arrived.
- The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
- That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。
- The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
- A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- 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》
- Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
- What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！
- I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
- The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
- This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
- Matrimonial vows are to show the faithfulness of the new couple. 婚誓体现了新婚夫妇对婚姻的忠诚。
- The nun took strait vows. 那位修女立下严格的誓愿。
- 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。