AP 2012-04-29
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(四月)
英语课
1. Agricultural officials in California are assuring consumers the food supply is safe after discovering a cow with BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease. Officials say the cow developed the disease through a natural mutation 1 and not from eating infected feed.
2. Mitt 2 Romney swept the five Republican presidential primaries held in the Northeast Tuesday. Romney focused on the general election in his victory speech, saying "a better America begins tonight."
3. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano goes before a Senate panel Wednesday to answer questions about the Secret Service prostitution scandal. Nine Secret Service members have been forced out while one lost his security clearance 3, two were cleared of wrongdoing. A dozen military personnel have been implicated 4.
4. And News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch testified to a British investigative panel about the phone hacking 5 scandal that brought down one of his tabloids 6.
1 mutation
n.变化，变异，转变
- People who have this mutation need less sleep than others.有这种突变的人需要的睡眠比其他人少。
- So far the discussion has centered entirely around mutation in the strict sense.到目前为止，严格来讲，讨论完全集中于围绕突变问题上。
2 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
- I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
- Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
3 clearance
n.净空；许可(证)；清算；清除，清理
- There was a clearance of only ten centimetres between the two walls.两堵墙之间只有十厘米的空隙。
- The ship sailed as soon as it got clearance. 那艘船一办好离港手续立刻启航了。
4 implicated
adj.密切关联的；牵涉其中的
- These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence. 这些组织与这起暴力事件有着极大的关联。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Having the stolen goods in his possession implicated him in the robbery. 因藏有赃物使他涉有偷盗的嫌疑。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》