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AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-12-23

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1.From the Pacific Northwest to New England, people are digging out from heavy snow. In between, many are shivering through a brutally1 cold day. Below-zero wind chills led a number of schools in the Pittsburg area to close. Monday morning commuters in Ohio were greeted by zero-degree temperatures.

2.A federal jury in New Jersey2 has convicted five Muslim immigrants of conspiring3 to kill soldiers at FORT DIX. The men will be sentenced in April and could get life in prison. The mother of one of them calls the verdict a miscarriage4 of justice, saying the government sent somebody to push her son to say something incriminating.

3.The National Transportation Safety Board says it has good data from the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a Continental5 Airlines jet that skidded6 off the runway and caught fire in Denver Saturday. Investigators7 are trying to determine what caused the plane’s aborted8 takeoff. 38 people were hurt and at least five remain hospitalized.

4.The White House says doctors have performed an MRI on President George W. Bush's left shoulder. He's apparently9 been having some pain in it, though not enough to restrict his activities. Results are possible later today.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.shiver: v.

to shake slightly because you are cold or frightened [= tremble]

2.miscarriage of justice: phrase.

a situation in which someone is wrongly punished by a court of law for something they did not do

3.incriminating: adj.

being responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible10 act

4.cockpit: n.

the area in a plane, small boat, or racing11 car where the pilot or driver sits

5.MRI: n.磁力共振

the process of using strong magnetic fields to make a picture of the inside of someone's body for medical reasons

 


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1 brutally jSRya     
adv.残忍地,野蛮地,冷酷无情地
参考例句:
  • The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
  • A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。
2 jersey Lp5zzo     
n.运动衫
参考例句:
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
3 conspiring 6ea0abd4b4aba2784a9aa29dd5b24fa0     
密谋( conspire的现在分词 ); 搞阴谋; (事件等)巧合; 共同导致
参考例句:
  • They were accused of conspiring against the king. 他们被指控阴谋反对国王。
  • John Brown and his associates were tried for conspiring to overthrow the slave states. 约翰·布朗和他的合伙者们由于密谋推翻实行奴隶制度的美国各州而被审讯。
4 miscarriage Onvzz3     
n.失败,未达到预期的结果;流产
参考例句:
  • The miscarriage of our plans was a great blow.计划的失败给我们以巨大的打击。
  • Women who smoke are more to have a miscarriage.女性吸烟者更容易流产。
5 continental Zazyk     
adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的
参考例句:
  • A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
  • The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
6 skidded 35afc105bfaf20eaf5c5245a2e8d22d8     
v.(通常指车辆) 侧滑( skid的过去式和过去分词 );打滑;滑行;(住在)贫民区
参考例句:
  • The car skidded and hit a lamp post. 那辆汽车打滑撞上了路灯杆。
  • The car skidded and overturned. 汽车打滑翻倒了。
7 investigators e970f9140785518a87fc81641b7c89f7     
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • 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》
8 aborted dfb7069bfc6e0064a6c667626eca07b4     
adj.流产的,失败的v.(使)流产( abort的过去式和过去分词 );(使)(某事物)中止;(因故障等而)(使)(飞机、宇宙飞船、导弹等)中断飞行;(使)(飞行任务等)中途失败
参考例句:
  • The rocket flight had to be aborted because of difficulties with computer. 因电脑出故障,这次火箭飞行只好中辍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They aborted the space flight finally. 他们最后中止了这次宇航飞行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 apparently tMmyQ     
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
参考例句:
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
10 reprehensible 7VpxT     
adj.该受责备的
参考例句:
  • Lying is not seen as being morally reprehensible in any strong way.人们并不把撒谎当作一件应该大加谴责的事儿。
  • It was reprehensible of him to be so disloyal.他如此不忠,应受谴责。
11 racing 1ksz3w     
n.竞赛,赛马;adj.竞赛用的,赛马用的
参考例句:
  • I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
  • The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
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