美联社新闻一分钟 AP News 2008-04-17
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(四)月
1.Pope Benedict has been getting a grand welcome in Washington on his first official visit to the US. His popemobile passed cheering crowds. And at a White House ceremony, a crowd of more than 13,000 people sang ‘Happy birthday’ to the pontiff. He turns 81 today.
2.President Bush is taking a different approach to global warming. He is proposing a new target for stopping the growth of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions 1 by 2025. Bush also challenged Congress to pass climate legislation that won't hurt the economy.
3.Crews in Colorado are making progress against a fast-moving wildfire. It is one of three blazes that have now claimed lives of two volunteer firefighters and a pilot of a firefighting plane. Crews are hoping lighter 2 winds and rising humidity will help them battle the flames.
4.German polar bear fans have another star to visit. This zoo in Stuttgart presented 4-month-old Wilbaer to the public. Workers brought the fluffy 3 cub 4 outdoors alongside his mother, Corinna.
- Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
- Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
- The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
- The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
- Newly hatched chicks are like fluffy balls.刚孵出的小鸡像绒毛球。
- The steamed bread is very fluffy.馒头很暄。