AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-16
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. World leaders have descended 2 on Washington where talks continue today on potential ways to combat the global financial crisis. The economic summit is the largest gathering 3 of its kind in the nation’s capital in nearly a decade.
2. The economy is a topic for President-elect Barack Obama in the Weekly Democratic Radio Address. This week’s remarks were videotaped and posted on YouTube.
3. A pair of wildfires are torching southern California. Strong wind gusts 4 spanning the plains aren’t making things easier for the firefighters. More than 100 homes have been destroyed by the blazes.
4. This may take a while to clean up. A new world record for the number of dominoes toppled in one go has been set in the Netherlands. More than 4.3-million dominoes were knocked over during a two-hour TV show last night. The start took eight weeks to set up and more than a year to plan.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
if a large number of people descend on a person or a place, they come to visit or stay.
2. span: v.
to include all of a particular space or area.
3. go: n.
an attempt to do something.
- I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。
- We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。
- A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
- The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。