AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-07-31（在线收听）

1.At least 90 aftershocks have followed yesterday’s 5.4 magnitude quake in southern California. It’s caused only limited damage and a few injuries, but officials say cell phone service was greatly affected.

2.Israel’s prime minister says he plans to resign in September. Ehud Olmert says he won’t run in his party’s upcoming primary election and will step down after the vote. His brief statement today included harsh criticism of ongoing police investigations of corruption charges against him.

3.Police say an Army sergeant charged in the death of a pregnant soldier was the father of her unborn baby, but Edgar Patino was married to someone else.Patino made his first court appearance in North Carolina this afternoon.

4.And a software glitch crippled the baggage handling system today at an American Airlines terminal at JFK.The problem delayed some flights at the New York airport and caused a luggage pileup at ticket counters.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.step down 有辞职、让位和下台的意思

2.glitch n.usually minor malfunction

3.cripple vt.to deprive of capability for service or of strength, efficiency, or wholeness

4.baggage handling system

A Baggage Handling System (BHS) is a type of conveyor system installed in airports that transports checked luggage from ticket counters to areas where the bags can be loaded onto airplanes.

5.terminal n.

An airport terminal is a building at an airport where passengers transfer between ground transportation and the facilities that allow them to board and disembark from airplanes.

6.JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy 这里指的是约翰·肯尼迪机场

7.pileup n.a jammed tangled mass or pile (as of motor vehicles or people) resulting from collision or accumulation

8.ticket counter 售票台，票务处