AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-12-03
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月
1. The head of Ford 1 says he is willing to work for a dollar a year, part of a push to get 25 billion dollars from Congress to help save the auto 2 industry. The push for money includes appearances by all the auto chiefs before Congress.
2. A recovery on Wall Street whose stocks up 270 points with investors 3 calmed by the prospects 4 of a bailout for automakers. But advances were not nearly enough to make up for yesterday's sell-off.
3. In California, a husband and wife are arrested and charged with torture after a 17-year-old boy shows up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle. Authorities said he was emaciated 5 and terrified.
4. High in the mountains of Switzerland, time for the Santa Claus World Championship with contestants 6 trying to do everything Santas do, from scaling chimneys to getting some donkeys to move--standing in for reindeer 7. The winner gets money and bragging 8 rights of course.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. advance: n.
an increase in the price or value of something - used especially to talk about the stock exchange
2. sell-off: n.
the sale of a lot of stocks or shares, which makes the price decrease
3. emaciated: adj.
extremely thin from lack of food or illness
4. stand in: phr v.
If you stand in for someone, you take their place or do their job, because they are ill or away.
5. reindeer: n. 驯鹿
a large deer with long wide antlers (=horns) , that lives in cold northern areas
- They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
- If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- 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
- There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
- They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
- A long time illness made him sallow and emaciated.长期患病使他面黄肌瘦。
- In the light of a single candle,she can see his emaciated face.借着烛光，她能看到他的被憔悴的面孔。
- The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
- Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The herd of reindeer was being trailed by a pack of wolves.那群驯鹿被一只狼群寻踪追赶上来。
- The life of the Reindeer men was a frontier life.驯鹿时代人的生活是一种边区生活。