时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2013(四月)


英语课
  1.Investigators 1 in Boston want to talk to the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the marathon bombing suspect killed early Friday. His younger brother Dzhokhar was shot in the throat and remains 2 hospitalized.
 
  2.Five people are reported dead after a gun fire was heard at an apartment complex south of Seattle. One of the dead was a suspect, killed by police. It's unclear what started the shooting.
 
  3.Monday is expected to be a big test for the nation's airports. Furloughs due to budget cuts are affecting flight controllors and other FAA employees.
 
  4.And actress Reese Witherspoon says she's deeply embarrassed after her arrest for disorderly conduct. She is accused of confronting 3 officers who pulled her husband over in Atlanta. He's charged with driving under the influence.

1 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • 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》
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 confronting
面对( confront的现在分词 ); 使面对; 使对质; 处理
  • the economic problems confronting the country 这个国家所面临的经济问题
  • Confronting great hardships, the surveyors never knocked under. 在巨大的艰难困苦面前,那些勘探人员从未屈服过。