美联社新闻一分钟 2005-11-08
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. President Bush vigorously defends US interrogation practices in the war on terror and lobbies against the congressional drive to outlaw 1 torture.
2. Crews found the body of another apparent victim from a weekend tornado 2 in the Midwest, raising the tornado death toll 3 to 22.
3. Rioting in France spreads to 300 towns while a man hurt in the violence dies of his wounds, the first fatality 4 in eleven days of unrest.
4. International Space Station residents space walk, installing a huge camera and discarding a probe that monitors environment outside the station.
5. And magics in the air, the cast of the latest Harry 5 Potter movie "Harry Potter and the Goblet 6 of Fire" attend the London premiere
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. vigorous
2 vigorous
A vigorous person does things with great energy and enthusiasm. A vigorous campaign or activity is done with great energy and enthusiasm.
vigorously
The police vigorously denied that excessive force had been used.
ADV-GRADED: ADV with v
2. fatality
1 fatality fatalities 7
A fatality is a death caused by an accident or by violence. (FORMAL)
Drunk driving fatalities in this country have declined more than 10 percent over the past 10 years.
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3. cast
1 cast casts
The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
The show is very amusing and the cast are very good.
N-COUNT-COLL The form cast is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle
4. goblet
goblet goblets 8
A goblet is a type of cup without handles and usually with a long stem.
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- The outlaw hid out in the hills for several months.逃犯在山里隐藏了几个月。
- The outlaw has been caught.歹徒已被抓住了。
- A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
- The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
- 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。
- She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。
- He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。
- Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
- Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
- He poured some wine into the goblet.他向高脚酒杯里倒了一些葡萄酒。
- He swirled the brandy around in the huge goblet.他摇晃着高脚大玻璃杯使里面的白兰地酒旋动起来。
- Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
- The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》