美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-07

1. Residents of Greensburg, Kansas are joining search crews picking through the rubble¹ and debris² that sits where the town used to stand. A Kansas state trooper says the search that resumed after daybreak is still being called "a search and rescue mission."

2. President Bush is asking the country to pray for the town of Greensburg. He says his heart is heavy with grief and has vowed³ the government will do all it can to help the town rebuild.

3. Preliminary results from France show that voters there have chosen this man to be their next president. Early returns have conservative Nicolas Sarkozy getting 53% of the vote with socialist⁴ Segolene Royal getting just more than 46%.

4. More than 18,000 Mexicans stripped off, baring all for the sake of art. In one of the photos, the nudes⁵ stood upright and gave a military-like salute⁶ to their national flag. In another, they lay down forming a vast blanket around a naked man in a wheelchair.

 

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. trooper: n-count
In the US, a trooper is a police officer in a state police force.

2. returns: n-plural
Returns are the results of votes after an election.

3. bare: verb
If you bare something, you uncover it and show it. (WRITTEN)

1 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

2 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

3 vowed   

起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
• I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

4 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

5 nudes   

（绘画、照片或雕塑）裸体( nude的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He also drew Chinese opera figures, nudes and still lives. 他还画戏曲人物画、裸女、瓶花静物等。

6 salute   

vi.行礼，致意，问候，放礼炮；vt.向…致意，迎接，赞扬；n.招呼，敬礼，礼炮

参考例句：

• Merchant ships salute each other by dipping the flag.商船互相点旗致敬。
• The Japanese women salute the people with formal bows in welcome.这些日本妇女以正式的鞠躬向人们施礼以示欢迎。