美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-04-29
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2014(四)月
英语课
1. President Obama took a tour of the site of a deadly mudslide in Oso, Washington. Obama met with the families of the victims and first responders and later surveyed the scene by helicopter.
2. The search for missing passengers aboard the sunken South Korea ferry gets tougher as the death toll 1 reaches 146. Divers 2 are now breaking in to the cabin walls to reach missing victims and funeral halls in the local area are already full.
3. Law enforcement officials say the teen jet stowaway 3 spent 7 hours undetected before the plane’s departure to Hawaii. The teen was later seen walking on the tarmac near airplanes after flying in a wheel well from San Jose, California.
4. And fans of the 87-year-old Columbia Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez gathered to listen to music and pay their final respects. Affectionately known to millions as “Gabo”, the author was considered one of the greatest Spanish language writers of all time.
1 toll
n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。