AP 2012-07-25
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(七月)
英语课
1. President Barack Obama is comforting survivors 1 and families of those killed and wounded in last week's Colorado theater shooting. The City of Aurora 2 has a vigil planned.
2. At the same time, the University of Colorado says it's investigating whether shooting suspect James Holmes used his position as a graduate student to order materials in the potentially deadly booby traps that police say they found in his apartment. Police say Holmes received deliveries over four months to his home and school.
3. The family of late coach Joe Paterno says the removal of his statue from outside Penn State's football stadium "does not serve the victims" of the sex abuse scandal that has engulfed 3 the university. Meanwhile, the NCAA announced it would be issuing sanctions against the university.
4. And this New Orleans hotel is no more. It was imploded 4 Sunday morning to make way for a new medical center.
1 survivors
幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
- 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
2 aurora
n.极光
- The aurora is one of nature's most awesome spectacles.极光是自然界最可畏的奇观之一。
- Over the polar regions we should see aurora.在极地高空,我们会看到极光。