美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-24
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月
1.The Obama administration is asking private investors 1 to help buy up to a trillion dollars of bad assets from the nation's banks. President Obama calls it "one more critical element" in his effort to revive the economy.
2.Investigators 2 say they are looking into possible overloading 3 on a plane that crashed in Montana, killing 4 all 14 people aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board says the plane was likely designed to carry a total of 11 people, including two pilots.
3.Lance Armstrong has broken his collarbone in a crash during a five-day-race in Spain. A fellow team member says it was a clean fracture without complications. He added the seven-time Tour de France champion should make a fast recovery.
4.And Pandora is a horse unlike most. This five-year-old thoroughbred mare 5 is allergic 6 to grass. Her owner says she has to cover the horse from top to tail in specially 7 designed rugs that protect her skin. But, she says, despite the long face, Pandora appears to be happy and healthy.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.collarbone: n.锁骨
one of the pair of bones that go from the bottom part of your neck to your shoulders
2.complication: n. 并发症
a medical problem or illness that happens while someone is already ill and makes treatment more difficult
3.thoroughbred: adj.纯种的；良种的
a horse that has parents of the same very good breed
- 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
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Enables multiple users to search the site without overloading the server. 使多个用户搜索网站，而无需超载的服务器上。
- The driver got stripped down again for overloading his trunk. 那位卡车司机因为超载又受到责备。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.那匹母马刚刚在马厩里产下了一只小马驹。
- The mare foundered under the heavy load and collapsed in the road.那母马因负载过重而倒在路上。
- Alice is allergic to the fur of cats.艾丽斯对猫的皮毛过敏。
- Many people are allergic to airborne pollutants such as pollen.许多人对空气传播的污染物过敏，比如花粉。