AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-10-07
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月
1.The Dow Jones is continuing its volatile 1 ride at the time when the Dow was down over 500 points putting it below 10000 for the first time in four years. Despite the government's Wall Street bailout plan, credit markets are still strained.The Federal Reserve is taking fresh steps to help stablize the economy.
2.Police in California arrested the driver of a charter bus that crashed in Northern California. Authorities believed the driver was driving under the influence.The crash killed eight and injuried dozens as passengers were ejected and crushed by the rolling vehicle.
3.Democrats 2 are resurrecting Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's ties to the Keating Five scandal from two decades ago.It comes after his ticket mate,Sarah Palin, criticised Obama's ties to the founder 3 of the Wheather Underground group which was blamed for several bombings when Obama was a child.
4.The 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three European scientists for separate discoveries.Two French researchers were cited for their discovery of HIV. A German researcher was honored for finding viruses that cause cervical cancer.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.volatile means something changing or changeable. It can refer to:
In economics:
Volatility 4 (finance), a measure of the risk in a financial instrument
2.eject v.
to throw out or off from within
3.resurrect
res‧ur‧rect vt.
to bring back an old activity, belief, idea etc that has not existed for a long time:
The Home Office have resurrected plans to build a new prison just outside London.
another failed attempt to resurrect his career
4.the Keating five 详情见此处
5.cervical cancer子宫颈癌
- With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定，投资冒着很大的风险。
- His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱，喜怒无常。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
- According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
- That was one reason why volatility was so low last year.这也是去年波动性如此低的原因之一。
- Yet because volatility remained low for so long,disaster myopia prevailed.然而，由于相当长的时间里波动性小，灾难短视就获胜了。