AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-08-10
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(八)月
1. A deadly stabbing has cast a shadow over the Olympic Games in Beijing. A suicidal man stabbed two tourists from Minnesota. Todd Bachman was killed, his wife Barbara hospitalized. Their daughter is a former Olympian, Elizabeth Bachman. She's married to Hugh McCutcheon who coaches the US men's volleyball team.
2. The president of the former Soviet 1 Republic of Georgia is calling for a ceasefire. This comes as the conflict with Russia escalates 2 in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Russia's foreign minister says 1,500 people have been killed so far.
3. Actor and comedian 3 Bernie Mac has died. He passed away Saturday morning at a Chicago area hospital. His publicist says he had complications due to pneumonia 4. Mac was 50 years old.
4. Michael Phelps breezed through his first day of Olympic competition, swimming in a preliminary heat for the 400-meter individual medley 5. Phelps sweep(s) the field by almost one and a half seconds.
WORDS IN THE NEWS:
1. cast a shadow/cloud over sth
literary to make people feel less happy or hopeful about something.
2. pneumonia: n. 【医】肺炎
a serious illness that affects your lungs and makes it difficult for you to breathe.
3. breeze through: phr v.
If you breeze through something such as a game or test, you cope with it easily.
4. heat: n.
a part of a race or competition whose winners then compete against each other in the next part.
5. medley: n. 混合泳
In sport, a medley is a swimming race in which the four main strokes are used one after the other.
6. sweep: v.
To win overwhelmingly in.
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- As the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. 面临的挑战越大，越需要团队协同合作。 来自互联网
- I cannot understand why a minor disagreement escalates into a fist-fight. 我真不明白为什么一点意见不合就变成了拳头相见。 来自互联网
- The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
- The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。
- Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
- Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。