美联社新闻一分钟 2008-05-05
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月
1.More than 350 people are reportedly dead in Myanmar after a powerful cyclone 1 hit the country's southwest coast. Five regions have been declared disaster zones. Thousands of homes have also been destroyed.
2.The horse racing 2 world is reeling after yesterday's second-place filly in the Kentucky Derby was put down just after the race. Officials say "Eight Belles 3" suffered fractures in both front ankles and was euthanized.
3.Authorities have charged one suspect and are searching for a second in the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia police officer after a bank robbery. The officer was fatally shot with an assault rifle yesterday morning while responding to the robbery in northeast Philadelphia.
4.Democrats 4 are getting in some last-minute campaigning before their next major match-up on Tuesday when voters in Indiana and North Carolina hit the polls. Barack Obama criticized Hillary Clinton for saying the US would obliterate 5 Iran if it were to attack Israel. Obama says that's not the language we need right now.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. obliterate: v.
If something obliterates 6 an object or place, it destroys it completely.
- An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
- The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
- 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。
- Every girl in Atlanta was knee deep in men,even the plainest girls were carrying on like belles. 亚特兰大的女孩子个个都有许多男人追求，就连最不出色的也像美人一样被男人紧紧缠住。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Even lot of belles, remand me next the United States! 还要很多美女，然后把我送回美国！ 来自互联网
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Whole villages were obliterated by fire.整座整座的村庄都被大火所吞噬。
- There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him.时间足以抹去他对过去经历的记忆。
- He obliterates her signature. 他擦掉了她的签名。 来自互联网
- A curtain is too heavy, too thick, and it obliterates every texture save its own. 但是帏幕太沉重，太厚密了，它抹去了一切纹理，只除了它自己的。 来自互联网