AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-17
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(九)月
1. The Dow Industrials rose nearly 142 points after more than a 500-point drop Monday. The move came as the Fed left interest rates unchanged and also pumped 70 billion dollars into the financial system.
2. Residents of Galveston in Texas have been allowed to look at their homes or what’s left after Hurricane Ike, but they're then supposed to leave. A judge may order people who never left during the storm to leave due to health concerns. President Bush surveyed the damaged region by air today.
3. Federal investigators 1 used stand-in train engines to do site tests at the scene of last week's deadly commuter 2 train crash in Los Angles. The tests were done to show when the trains came into view with each other. Meanwhile California Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced legislation to mandate 3 technology that would automatically stop trains if they bypass a red signal as the Metrolink train did.
4. The Food and Drug Administration defended its assessment 4 that a chemical often found in baby bottles and other plastics is safe. The statement came the same day that a new study suggested possible links between BPA and diabetes 5 and heart attacks.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.pump [VERB: V n into n]
If you pump money or other resources into something such as a project or an industry, you invest a lot of money or resources in it. (INFORMAL)
The Government needs to pump more money into community care.
2..stand in phr v
to temporarily do someone else's job or take their place
stand in for
Would you mind standing 6 in for me for a while?
stand-in n.[c]
someone who does the job or takes the place of someone else for a short time
Gilbert failed to find a stand-in and so could not go to the party.
someone who takes the place of an actor for some scenes in a film
stand-in for
a stand-in for Tom Cruise
3.come into view
view【SIGHT】 [U and C]
what you are able to see or whether you can see it
be in view/come into view
Suddenly the pyramids came into view.
4.BPA 双酚A
Bisphenol A is a chemical compound containing two phenol functional 7 groups. It belongs to the phenol class of aromatic 8 organic compounds. It is widely prepared and sold and various important polymers/plastics are made from it.
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Police cordoned off the road and diverted commuter traffic. 警察封锁了道路并分流交通。
- She accidentally stepped on his foot on a crowded commuter train. 她在拥挤的通勤列车上不小心踩到了他的脚。
- The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
- The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
- This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
- What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？
- In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
- Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- The telephone was out of order,but is functional now.电话刚才坏了，但现在可以用了。
- The furniture is not fancy,just functional.这些家具不是摆着好看的，只是为了实用。