美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2007-12-18

1. It's a guilty verdict for a wealthy Long Island couple accused of what prosecutors¹ called ''modern-day slavery''. The jury convicted Mahender Sabhnani and his wife Varsha of all charges in a 12-count federal indictment². The charges include forced labor³ and involuntary servitude.

2. Connecticut Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman is endorsing⁴ Republican Senator John McCain. Lieberman said he had planned to wait until after the primaries to offer his support for the presidential hopeful. Lieberman says MacCain is the best shot at breaking partisan⁵ gridlock in Washington.

3. More than a decade after her death, a friend of the Princess Diana says it's not true that Diana had plans to remarry. That's accorrding to a British inquest looking into the car crash that killed the princess and boyfriend Dodi Fayed. Fayed's father has claimed that Prince Philip was behind a plot to kill his son and Diana.

4. Chinese veterinarians operated on this wild panda named Qing Qing. He was found in a conservation park last week with a fracture near his hip⁶. Doctor say they inserted a steel plate to support his leg and Qing Qing could be healed in about a month.

1 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

2 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

3 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

4 endorsing   

v.赞同( endorse的现在分词 )；在（尤指支票的）背面签字；在（文件的）背面写评论；在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品

参考例句：

• Yet Communist leaders are also publicly endorsing religion in an unprecedented way. 不过，共产党领导层对宗教信仰的公开认可也是以前不曾有过的。 来自互联网
• Connecticut Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman is endorsing Republican Senator John McCain. 康涅狄格州独立派参议员约瑟夫。列波曼将会票选共和议员约翰。麦凯恩。 来自互联网

5 partisan   

adj.党派性的；游击队的；n.游击队员；党徒

参考例句：

• In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中，他们忘掉一切党派之争。
• The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。

6 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。