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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US housing starts plunged to a six-year low to exacerbate fears for the outlook of the world's largest economy, according to data.
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华盛顿消息——10月新屋开工数量滑至六年低谷，世界最大经济体前景堪忧。 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats argued Tuesday that President Bush's proposal to boost government payments to families of U.S. troops killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and future war zones should extend to all military personnel who died on active duty.
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有民主党议员说，布什总统现正努力在国会通过的提高阵亡士兵抚恤金的做法，不能仅仅局限于伊拉克、阿富汗和未来的战区，也应该扩大到所有的死于执行任务的军人。 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, the public face of the Bush administration through two wars and a terrorist attack, said Monday he will resign in July to enter the private sector.
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华盛顿（美联社）－在美国发动两场战争以及遭受恐怖袭击时，一直作为布什政府公众代言人的白宫新闻部长官阿里?弗莱舍宣布他将于今年7月辞职，并开始私人生活。 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government believes Fidel Castro's health is deteriorating and that the Cuban dictator is unlikely to live through 2007.
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华盛顿（观察报），政府相信古巴领导人，菲德尔?卡斯特罗的身体健康状况在恶化，不大可能活过2007年。 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) —Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to George Washington Hospital early Monday experiencing shortness of breath, a spokeswoman said.
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美联社华盛顿电：发言人透露，美国副总统迪克●切尼因为呼吸不畅周一早些时候被送往华盛顿医院就诊。 |
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S. warship has successfully knocked down a short-range missile fired from Hawaii, the Pentagon has said, amid global concerns about a possible North Korea missile test.
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华盛顿（CNN）--五角大楼表示：当全球注意力锁定在朝鲜可能实施的导弹试射时，一艘美国军舰成功的拦截一枚从美国夏威夷发射的短程导弹。 |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new space telescope that looks at the cosmos with infrared detectors has lifted the dust veils from newborn stars and a bumptious comet, and revealed the detail in the spiral arms of a neighboring galaxy.
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华盛顿（路透社）---一种能通过红外线观测宇宙的新型太空望远镜已经揭开了覆盖在一些新诞生的恒星和一颗（）彗星上的宇宙尘面纱，向我们显示了一个邻近银河系的旋臂的详细情况。 |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's newest ballistic missile submarine, the Jin-class vessel, has been spotted for the first time by a commercial satellite, a nuclear expert at the Federation of American Scientists said on Thursday.
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华盛顿（路透社）-美国科学家联盟的核专家星期四说：中国新一代导弹潜水艇首次被商用卫星发现。 |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drug-resistant versions of the AIDS virus passed from mother to child can quickly hide in the infant's immune system cells and lurk for years, researchers reported on Monday.
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华盛顿(路透社)周一研究人员报道说从母体传到孩体的抗药性艾滋病毒能迅速隐藏在儿童免疫系统细胞中,并潜伏多年. |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European astronomers have spotted what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet outside our solar system, with balmy temperatures that could support water and, potentially, life.
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华盛顿（路透社）——欧洲天文学家已经观测到在我们生活的太阳星系之外还存在着最大的类地星球，正如他们所说的这颗星球有着温和的气候，可以存在水，也有可能存在生物。 |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain cells in a brain region linked with memory and memory loss, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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路透社华盛顿消息——据美国的研究人员们星期一报道，锻炼能使脑部与记忆及记忆功能丧失相关的功能区域产生新的细胞，从而提高脑力。 |
