时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(六月)


英语课

This is AP News Minute.


1. Engineers trying to cap the pipe that's sending oil into the Gulf 1 of Mexico may have to bring in a second saw to finish cutting the pipe. The one they’ve been using became stuck in the pipe. Crews are still hoping to free it and then finish the cut.


2. President Barack Obama says the country's dependence 2 on fossil fuels jeopardizes 3 its national security, the economy and the environment and must be ended. He called for rolling back billions of dollars in oil company tax breaks and using the money in clean-energy technologies.


3. The Dutch government says an international arrest warrant has been issued for Joran van der Sloot. He was twice arrested in the disappearance 4 of Natalee Holloway. Police say he is the prime suspect in the murder of a woman in Peru.


4. An international team of researchers will try to experience what it would be like to travel to Mars in mass. They are locking themselves in a windowless capsule for a year-and-half. The six-man crew will follow a harsh regimen of experiments and exercise.


I'm Nat Friedman, the Associated Press.

 



n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属
  • Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
  • He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。
危及,损害( jeopardize的第三人称单数 )
  • If your reckless behavior jeopardizes this mission, you're out! 如果你不注意你的言行,会危及到这次任务你也会被开除!
  • Factionalism now seriously jeopardizes our overall interest. 现在闹派性已经严重地妨害我们的大局。
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
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