美联社新闻一分钟 AP News 2008-03-18
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月
1. A two-minute standing 1 ovation 2 marked the end for Eliot Spitzer and the beginning for David Paterson as New York's governor. Paterson has been sworn in as the state's first black governor after Spitzer left the post amid a prostitution scandal. The new governor says he has a daunting 3 job ahead.
2. The last of seven bodies was pulled from the rubble 4 at the site of Saturday's crane collapse 5 in Manhattan. Six construction workers and a woman in town for St. Patrick's Day were killed after the crane broke away from an apartment tower and toppled onto buildings as far as a block away.
3. It's the mortgage meltdown's biggest casualty yet. Investment bank Bear Stearns will be taken over by rival JPMorgan Chase. Meantime, President Bush says investors 6 can still be confident. That's because, he says, US markets are functioning and the nation's economic watchdogs are on top of the situation.
4. Men in kilts in a crowd wearing everything green marked this year's St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City. It's the country's largest parade and the spectators lining 7 the streets proved it. The crowd was up to seven people deep in some places along the Fifth Avenue route.
- 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 hero received a great ovation from the crowd. 那位英雄受到人群的热烈欢迎。
- The show won a standing ovation. 这场演出赢得全场起立鼓掌。
- They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house.他们面临着修复房子的艰巨任务。
- Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会