AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-19
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十一)月
1. Eric Holder 1 could be the next attorney general. Aides of President-elect Barack Obama are polling senators, seeing if Holder could be confirmed. He was a number two official in the Justice Department under President Clinton.
2. Automakers are begging for Washington's help, trying to avoid collapse 2. But Treasury 3 Secretary Henry Paulson is against dipping into a 700-billion-dollar rescue fund, saying it is not intended for companies outside the financial firms.
3. Pirates seize a supertanker loaded with 100 million dollars in crude, anchoring it within sight of some fishing villages in Somalia. Officials there are vowing 5 to rescue the tanker 4 by force if necessary.
4. A glittering star for the top of a giant Christmas tree at New York's Rockefeller Center. This crystal star weighs 550 pounds and is almost ten feet in diameter.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. poll: v.
to ask a lot of people the same questions in order to find out what they think about a subject
2. dip into: phr v.
to use some of an amount of money that you have
- The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
- That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。
- 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。
- The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
- This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
- The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
- Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。