美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2007-11-24
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
英语课
1. Shoppers get an early start this morning as they filled stores before dawn, hunting for deep discounts. Retailers 1 are hoping this shopping enthusiasm will hold through the entire holiday season. But analysts 2 start predicting this will be the weakest shopping season in years.
2. A judge in Aruba is ordering two brothers held in the disappearance 3 of Natalee Holloway to stay behind bars. He wants them to remain in jail for at least another eight days while prosecutors 4 continue the investigation 5.
3. Tensions are rising in Lebanon where the president has announced the state of emergency and ordered the army to take over security powers. This comes just hours before he was supposed to step down. The prime minister is rejecting the move.
4. The man who created the five-category hurricane system has died. Herbert Saffir came up with his scale as a way to lay out what kind of damage an approaching storm would do. Before, storms were just labeled as major or minor 6. Herbert Saffir was 90 years old.
2. A judge in Aruba is ordering two brothers held in the disappearance 3 of Natalee Holloway to stay behind bars. He wants them to remain in jail for at least another eight days while prosecutors 4 continue the investigation 5.
3. Tensions are rising in Lebanon where the president has announced the state of emergency and ordered the army to take over security powers. This comes just hours before he was supposed to step down. The prime minister is rejecting the move.
4. The man who created the five-category hurricane system has died. Herbert Saffir came up with his scale as a way to lay out what kind of damage an approaching storm would do. Before, storms were just labeled as major or minor 6. Herbert Saffir was 90 years old.
零售商，零售店( retailer的名词复数 )
- High street retailers reported a marked increase in sales before Christmas. 商业街的零售商报告说圣诞节前销售量显著提高。
- Retailers have a statutory duty to provide goods suitable for their purpose. 零售商有为他们提供符合要求的货品的法定义务。
分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
- 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。
n.消失，消散，失踪
- He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
- Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人
- 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。
n.调查，调查研究
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。