AP 2012-05-28
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(五月)
英语课
1. Law officials are questioning a man who they say has confessed to suffocating 1 six-year-old Etan Patz in New York City in 1979. The man, Pedro Hernandez, was picked up late Wednesday in Camden, New Jersey 2.
2. Egyptians were at the polls again Thursday in the country's landmark 3 election. Final results of the first round are to be announced next Tuesday. And a potential second round of voting would take place next month.
3. Government forecasters are predicting there will be about nine to fifteen storms during this year's Atlantic hurricane season. They predict that will include four to eight hurricanes with one to three of those becoming major storms.
4. Students in Poland have beaten their own informal record of consuming bags of instant noodles. They set about cooking and consuming 3,500 bags Thursday - all part of an annual holiday.
1 suffocating
a.使人窒息的
- After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating.和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
- That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room.这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。