美联社新闻一分钟 2006-08-09
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. While Senator Joe Lieberman spends this primary day campaigning in Connecticut, his campaign is accusing a rival Democrat 1 of hack 2ing Lieberman's campaign Web site. The site crashed Tuesday. Lieberman is locked in a tight battle with millionaire businessman Ned Lamont.
2. Across southern Lebanon, Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants 4 are waging fierce ground battles for control of key villages and ridge 5s near the Israeli border. Hezbollah is using the sites to fire rockets into Israel. The Israeli military says both sides are taking casualties.
3. Crude oil prices closed lower Tuesday on hopes that BP may not have to completely shut down its Alaska Prudhoe Bay oil field for repairs after all. Futures 7 prices fell 67 cents, closing at 76 dollars 31 cents a barrel.
4. An Arizona construction worker pinned under tons of concrete for more than seven hours has been rescued. He was helping 8 to demolish 9 an underground garage when part of the roof collapsed 10. Fire officials say he was conscious and talking during the ordeal 11.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. primary : n-count
A primary or a primary election is an election in an American state in which people vote for someone to become a candidate for a political office.
2. hack : verb
If someone hacks 12 into a computer system, they break into the system, especially in order to get secret information.
3. locked : adj
If you say that people are locked in conflict or in battle, you mean they are arguing or fighting in a fierce or determined 13 way, and neither side seems likely to stop.
4. ridge : n-count
a narrow area of high land along the top of a line of hills; a high pointed 14 area near the top of a mountain
e.g. We stood on the windswept ridge and looked down at the valley below.
5. pin : verb
If someone pins you to something, they press you against a surface so that you cannot move.
6. ordeal : n-count
If you describe an experience or situation as an ordeal, you think it is difficult and unpleasant.
- The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
- About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
- He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
- Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。
- The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
- We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- We clambered up the hillside to the ridge above.我们沿着山坡费力地爬上了山脊。
- The infantry were advancing to attack the ridge.步兵部队正在向前挺进攻打山脊。
- The path winds along mountain ridges. 峰回路转。
- Perhaps that was the deepest truth in Ridges's nature. 在里奇斯的思想上，这大概可以算是天经地义第一条了。
- He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
- Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- They're going to demolish that old building.他们将拆毁那座旧建筑物。
- He was helping to demolish an underground garage when part of the roof collapsed.他当时正在帮忙拆除一个地下汽车库，屋顶的一部份突然倒塌。
- Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
- The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
- She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
- Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。
- But there are hacks who take advantage of people like Teddy. 但有些无赖会占类似泰迪的人的便宜。 来自电影对白
- I want those two hacks back here, right now. 我要那两个雇工回到这儿，现在就回。 来自互联网
- I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
- He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。