AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-10-16
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. On Wall Street, another volatile 1 day. The Dow Jones Industrial is falling 733 points, the second largest point loss ever. Stocks dropped on disappointing economic news including a big drop in retail 2 sales.
2. Tonight is the last time presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain face-off. This time debating at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island. Topics include the economy and other domestic issues.
3. Vice 3 President Dick Cheney gets treated at a Washington hospital for an abnormal heartbeat. The second time in less than a year Cheney has gotten a procedure. Doctors say Cheney's heart rhythm has returned to normal.
4. High above Newark, New Jersey 4, a high wire daredevil takes a bike-ride at 135 feet up without a net. He wants a place in the record books for the longest distance and greatest height travelled by a bike on a wire.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. Procedure: n.
a medical treatment or operation.
2. high wire: n.
a tightly stretched rope or wire high above the ground that someone walks along as part of a circus performance.
- 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。
- In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
- These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。