AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-02-18
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(二)月
1. In Denver, President Barack Obama is signing the economic stimulus 1 bill into law today. He says the plan creates jobs, consumer spending and public optimism. It's the most sweeping 2 economic package in decades and a big win for Obama's one-month-old administration.
2. Florida investigators 3 say they're working new leads in the disappearance 4 of five-year-old Haleigh Cummings. They aren't giving specifics but they did say the girl's neighbors offered new information. Haleigh vanished from her father's home more than a week ago.
3. A 16-year-old civilian 5 girl was found dead and another was found unresponsive in an army barracks in Washington State. The second teen is hospitalized and listed in stable condition. Officials say there are no outward signs of physical trauma 6 on either girl and they are now awaiting the results of an autopsy 7.
4. This video may be an Internet hit but it's a disaster for Japan's finance minister. He's resigning to calm critics who say he was drunk at a recent summit. He says cold medicine and fatigue 8 made him groggy 9. He had promised to stay at his post until parliament passed budget.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. barracks: n [plural]
a building or group of buildings in which soldiers live
2. fatigue: n.
very great tiredness
3. groggy: adj.
weak and unable to move well or think clearly because you are ill or very tired
- Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
- Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
- The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
- Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？
- 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》
- He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
- Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
- The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
- They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
- A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。
- The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
- I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。