美联社新闻一分钟 2006-07-30

1. U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Jerusalem. She met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about a possible peace plan to end fighting with Hezbollah. Rice's plan calls for an international peacekeeping force to be deployed¹ to southern Lebanon.

2. Hezbollah's leader is claiming victory in the ground war against Israel and threatening more rocket attacks. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's appearance on Lebanese television came after Israeli forces pulled out of a Hezbollah stronghold border town.

3. Authorities in Seattle have increased security around synagogues and mosques² after a shooting Friday. One person was killed, five others wounded during the shooting at a Jewish organization. The suspect, Naveed Haq, made his first appearance in court this afternoon.

4. And this is what happens when lightning hits a propane tank. A massive ball of flames erupted Friday night at a truck stop in northern Las Vegas. No one was hurt in the explosion. Authorities briefly³ had to evacuate⁴ the area.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. synagogue : n-count
A synagogue is a building where Jewish people meet to worship or to study their religion.

2. propane : n-uncount---丙烷
Propane is a gas that is used for cooking and heating.

1 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

2 mosques   

清真寺； 伊斯兰教寺院，清真寺； 清真寺，伊斯兰教寺院( mosque的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Why make us believe that this tunnel runs underneath the mosques? 为什么要让我们相信这条隧洞是在清真寺下？
• The city's three biggest mosques, long fallen into disrepair, have been renovated. 城里最大的三座清真寺，过去年久失修，现在已经修复。

3 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

4 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。