美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-30

1. Blasts rock India's capital New Delhi, tearing through a bus and two crowded markets, killing¹ dozens and wounding dozens more.

2. In Iraq, a truck bomb explosion strikes a Shiite village northeast of Baghdad, killing more than 2 dozen, injuring nearly 3 dozen.

3. After lashing² a Colombian island with winds and rains, a strengthening Hurricane Beta heads for Central America's Caribbean coast.

4. Attacks in Afghanistan kill a US paratrooper and a British soldier as officials there prepare to announce results from last month's elections.

5. And the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 makes a test landing in Frankfurt, Germany, continental³ Europe's largest airport

WORDS IN THE NEWS

paratrooper
paratrooper paratroopers
Paratroopers are soldiers who are trained to be dropped by parachute into battle or into enemy territory.
N-COUNT: usu pl
= para

1 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

2 lashing   

n.鞭打；痛斥；大量；许多v.鞭打( lash的现在分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The speaker was lashing the crowd. 演讲人正在煽动人群。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The rain was lashing the windows. 雨急打着窗子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。