美联社新闻一分钟 AP News 2008-03-25
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月
1. President Bush says the sacrifices of American troops have laid the foundation for peace for generations to come. His statements come as the death toll 1 in Iraq hit 4000. The President made his comments at the State Department after a two-hour long briefing on the war.
2. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says he is looking forward to complete exoneration 2. Kilpatrick was charged with perjury 3 and other counts for allegedly lying under oath. That’s after he denied he and a former aide had an affair.
3. The Justice Department has approved Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings. The department says the deal was unlikely to hurt competition or consumers.
4. The first of the two so-called "Barbie Bandits" has been sentenced to ten years in prison for her role in a bank robbery. Ashley Miller 4 will only have to serve two years of the sentence and will complete the rest on probation 5. The 19-year-old pleaded guilty to theft and drug charges.
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- Empathy for the criminal's childhood misery does not imply exoneration of the crimes he committed as an adult. 对罪犯悲惨的童年表示怜悯不等于可以免除他长大成人后所犯的罪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Exoneration or rehabilitation should be made known as widely as were the original wrong decisions. 原来在什么范围内弄错的，也应该在什么范围内宣布平反。 来自互联网
- You'll be punished if you procure the witness to commit perjury.如果你诱使证人作伪证，你要受罚的。
- She appeared in court on a perjury charge.她因被指控做了伪证而出庭受审。