美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2008-01-17
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(一)月
1. The top Democratic presidential candidates are locked in a tight battle for Nevada's delegates. The Clinton and Obama camps pledged to put their recent controversy 1 over race behind them as they headed to Saturday's caucus 2 .The White House's race is wide open for Republican candidates. Huckabee, Romney and McCain's now winning a primary apiece.
2. America's inflation rate is the worst in 17 years. Consumer prices rose by 4.1% for all of last year. The biggest increase was felt when filling up the gas tank or shopping for groceries. Prices for both energy and foods shot up by the largest amount since 1990.
3. Law enforcement officials from Georgia, Florida and North Carolina have met to discuss possible links between Georgia hiker murder suspect Gary Michael Hilton and other cases. Hilton is also a suspect to the death of a woman in North Carolina.
4. Authorities in Tennessee are looking for a trucker who took the door off one of their squad 3 cars over the weekend. The trooper stopped to help a motorist says a passing 18-wheeler hit his car without ever slowing down. The trooper was not hurt.
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
- It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。