美联社新闻一分钟 2008-05-27
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月
1. At least seven people have been killed in severe weather that tore through the Midwest. Some of the worst damage was in Parkersburg, Iowa where homes and a high school were destroyed. Forecasters are keeping an eye out for more severe weather today.
2. Americans are paying tribute to fallen troops in Memorial Day observances. President Bush today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and spoke 1 of the sacrifices of service members and their families.
3. Republican presidential candidate John McCain spent Memorial Day defending his opposition 2 to legislation that would give additional college financial aid to veterans. McCain said his position is the right one rather than the politically expedient 3 one. Barack Obama supports the measure which passed the Senate.
4. After a historic, near perfect landing NASA's Phoenix 4 Mars Lander is getting ready to begin testing the polar surface for signs of water and life. The lander has already sent back some photos of the area, giving scientists the first-ever glimpse of the Red Planet's high northern latitudes 5.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. keep an eye out:
2. observance: n.
Something you do as part of a ceremony, especially a religious ceremony.
3. Tomb of the Unknowns:
A national monument in Arlington National Cemetery 7 in Virginia, US, where soldiers whose names were not known are buried from World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. It represents all the US people who died in those wars.
4. expedient: adj.
Helping 8 you to deal with a problem quickly and effectively although sometimes in a way that is not morally right
5. lander: n.
A space vehicle designed to land on a celestial 9 body, such as the moon or a planet.
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.政府发现略微放宽审查是可取的。
- Every kind of expedient was devised by our friends.我们的朋友想出了各种各样的应急办法。
- The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
- The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
- Latitudes are the lines that go from east to west. 纬线是从东到西的线。
- It was the brief Indian Summer of the high latitudes. 这是高纬度地方的那种短暂的晚秋。
- The children played under the watchful eye of their father.孩子们在父亲的小心照看下玩耍。
- It is important that health organizations remain watchful.卫生组织保持警惕是极为重要的。
- He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
- His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。