美联社新闻一分钟 AP "滴血验癌"公司创始人被定罪

This is AP News Minute.

这里是美联社一分钟新闻。

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will debate easing filibuster¹ rules on or before Martin Luther King day.

美国多数党领袖查克·舒默表示，参议院将在马丁·路德·金纪念日当天或之前就放宽阻挠议事规则展开辩论。

He says it's part of an effort to advance voting rights legislation, which faces Republican opposition².

他表示，这是推进投票权立法的努力的一部分，该立法面临共和党的反对。

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud and conspiracy³.

血液测试公司Theranos前首席执行官伊丽莎白·霍姆斯被判犯有欺诈和共谋罪。

Jurors found she duped investors⁴ into believing that her startup had developed a medical device which could detect numerous illnesses from a few drops of blood.

陪审员发现，她欺骗了投资者，让他们相信她的初创公司开发了一种医疗设备，这种医疗设备可以从几滴血中检测出多种疾病。

Investigators⁵ in Colorado are narrowing their search for the cause of the wildfire that destroyed nearly a thousand homes and buildings.

科罗拉多州的调查人员正在缩小对野火原因的搜索范围，这场大火摧毁了近1000座房屋和建筑。

It's an area where video showed a shed burning, on the day the fire began.

视频显示，火灾发生的当天，一间棚屋正在燃烧。

The National Weather Service reports that some snow accumulations from Monday's winter storm topped ten inches near Washington, DC.

据美国国家气象局报道，周一的冬季暴风雪导致华盛顿附近的积雪厚度超过10英寸。

About six inches of snow fell in northern Alabama, where multiple wrecks⁶ were reported.

阿拉巴马州北部的降雪量约为6英寸，据报道那里有许多残骸。

1 filibuster   

n.妨碍议事，阻挠；v.阻挠

参考例句：

• A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.一个参议员硬把这个题目拉扯进来，作为一种阻碍议事的手法。
• The democrats organized a filibuster in the senate.民主党党员在参议院上组织了阻挠议事。

2 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• 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。

3 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

4 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

5 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 wrecks   

n.沉船( wreck的名词复数 )；（事故中）遭严重毁坏的汽车（或飞机等）；（身体或精神上）受到严重损伤的人；状况非常糟糕的车辆（或建筑物等）v.毁坏[毁灭]某物( wreck的第三人称单数 )；使（船舶）失事，使遇难，使下沉

参考例句：

• The shores are strewn with wrecks. 海岸上满布失事船只的残骸。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• My next care was to get together the wrecks of my fortune. 第二件我所关心的事就是集聚破产后的余财。 来自辞典例句