AP 2012-04-27
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. In New York City, excavation 1 work is over at a Manhattan basement in the search for Etan Patz. The six-year-old disappeared in 1979 along his route to the school bus. Authorities say there are no obvious signs of human remains 2.
2. Republican Mitt 3 Romney says he is not endorsing 4 an immigration proposal from Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a possible running mate. But Romney says he is looking at the plan.
3. Syrian activists 5 say government troops armed with heavy machine guns killed dozens of people in Hama. This comes a day after protesters welcomed a UN team monitoring a ceasefire.
4. In Athens, Georgia at the University of Georgia, goats are doing the grazing, helping 6 rid the campus of invasive plants. No weed wackers or chemicals here, just teeth.
1 excavation
n.挖掘，发掘；被挖掘之地
- The bad weather has hung up the work of excavation.天气不好耽误了挖掘工作。
- The excavation exposed some ancient ruins.这次挖掘暴露出一些古遗迹。
2 remains
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
3 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。
4 endorsing
v.赞同( endorse的现在分词 )；在（尤指支票的）背面签字；在（文件的）背面写评论；在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品
- Yet Communist leaders are also publicly endorsing religion in an unprecedented way. 不过，共产党领导层对宗教信仰的公开认可也是以前不曾有过的。 来自互联网
- Connecticut Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman is endorsing Republican Senator John McCain. 康涅狄格州独立派参议员约瑟夫。列波曼将会票选共和议员约翰。麦凯恩。 来自互联网