美联社新闻一分钟 AP 美国加州再发枪击案

This is AP News Minute.

这里是美联社一分钟新闻。

A gunman killed seven people at two businesses in Northern California Monday, the state's third mass killing¹ in eight days.

周一，一名枪手在加利福尼亚州北部的2个工厂里杀害了7人，这是该州8天内发生的第三起大规模枪击事件。

Officers arrested a suspect after they found him in his car in a parking lot at a local sheriff's substation.

警方在当地治安分局的停车场发现了嫌疑人，当时他正在他的车里，随后逮捕了他。

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters at a news conference in South Africa that Russia is willing to negotiate² with Ukraine, but stressed that Ukraine is refusing to do so.

俄罗斯外交部长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫在南非的新闻发布会上对记者说，俄罗斯愿意与乌克兰谈判，但强调乌克兰拒绝谈判。

Much of Pakistan was left without power as an energy-saving measure by the government backfired.

由于政府推行的节能措施适得其反，巴基斯坦大部分地区断电。

The outage spread panic and raised questions about the cash-strapped government's handling of the country's economic crisis³.

停电引发了恐慌，并引发了人们对资金短缺的政府处理该国经济危机的质疑。

And the United States has returned dozens of stolen artifacts to Italy.

美国已经将数十件被盗文物归还给意大利。

The items, estimated⁴ to be worth about $20 million, were recovered from US museums and private collections.

这些文物估计价值约2000万美元，是从美国博物馆和私人收藏品中追回的。

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 negotiate   

v.洽谈，协商，谈判，顺利通过，成功越过

参考例句：

• I'll negotiate with their coach on the date of the match.我将与他们的教练磋商比赛的日期问题。
• I managed to negotiate successfully with the authorities.我设法同当局进行了成功的协商。

3 crisis   

n.危机，危急关头，决定性时刻，关键阶段

参考例句：

• He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明，在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
• The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。

4 estimated   

adj．根据估计的

参考例句：

• She estimated the breadth of the lake to be 500 metres. 她估计湖面大约有500米宽。
• The man estimated for the repair of the car. 那人估算了修理汽车的费用。