AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-12-25
时间：2018-12-01 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月
1.As if spending one night at Chicago's O'Hare Airport wasn't enough. Some passengers face the prospect 1 of doing it again this Christmas Eve. More than 100 flights were canceled at O'Hare today, a day after the weather forced the cancellations of more than 500 flights.
2.Officials at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport say about 26 people have been treating for eye irritation 2 after fumes 3 from a de-icer seeped 4 inside an Alaska Airlines plane. An airline spokeswoman says all five crew members and two other airline employees onboard decided 5 to go to a hospital. It’s unknown how the fumes seeped into the plane. An airline official calls it “highly unusual”.
3.Deep discounts are drawing in customers, but analysts 6 say that may not be enough to offset 7 what's expected to be the worst holiday sale season in decades. Merchants desperate to pull in shoppers started discounting holiday goods last month. But except for a shopping binge on the day after Thanksgiving, Americans remained tightfisted.
4.It doesn't look like the dispute over Snow-zilla will end anytime soon. The city of Anchorage has levied 8 thousands of dollars in fines against the owner of a property where a giant snowman sits, but the owner claimed someone else rebuilt the snowman that had previously 9 been destroyed.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.de-icer: n.防冰装置
a device used on an aircraft to keep the wings and propeller 10 free from ice or to remove ice after it has formed
2.offset: vt.
if the cost or amount of something offsets 11 another cost or amount, the two things have an opposite effect so that the situation remains 12 the same
3.binge: n. informal
a short period when you do too much of something, such as eating or drinking
4.tightfisted: adj. informal
not generous with money [= stingy]
to officially say that people must pay a tax or charge
e.g. levy a tax/charge/fine etc (on something)
- This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
- The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
- He could not hide his irritation that he had not been invited.他无法掩饰因未被邀请而生的气恼。
- Barbicane said nothing,but his silence covered serious irritation.巴比康什么也不说，但是他的沉默里潜伏着阴郁的怒火。
- The health of our children is being endangered by exhaust fumes. 我们孩子们的健康正受到排放出的废气的损害。
- Exhaust fumes are bad for your health. 废气对健康有害。
- The rain seeped through the roof. 雨水透过房顶渗透。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Icy air seeped in through the paper and the room became cold. 寒气透过了糊窗纸。屋里骤然冷起来。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
- I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
- Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
- He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。
- Taxes should be levied more on the rich than on the poor. 向富人征收的税应该比穷人的多。
- Heavy fines were levied on motoring offenders. 违规驾车者会遭到重罚。
- The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
- Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。
- The propeller started to spin around.螺旋桨开始飞快地旋转起来。
- A rope jammed the boat's propeller.一根绳子卡住了船的螺旋桨。
- The following paragraphs deal with intra-source offsets and the so-called \"bubble\" concept. 下面讨论污染源内部的补偿和所谓的“泡泡”概念。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
- The preceding paragraphs were concerned with inter-source offsets. 前文牵涉到污染源之间的补偿。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法