AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-18
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月
1.Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall on the Florida Panhandle packing fifteen-mile-per-hour winds. It is now a tropical depression. Meanwhile Bill has become the Atlantic season's first hurricane.
2.Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is hospitalized after a suspect attacked him with a pipe. Barrett was trying to help a grandmother from being assaulted. A twenty-year-old man has been arrested.
3.American John Yettaw is undergoing medical tests in Thailand after being released from imprisonment 1 in Myanmar over the weekend. Virginia Senator Jim Webb says Yettaw is not in good health.
4.The government says all those clunker trade-ins must be scrapped 2. And a car dealership 3 in Oklahoma has found a unique way to do it--by crushing them with a monster truck. The government is shelling out three billion dollars to the program.
- His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
- He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。
- This machine is so old that it will soon have to be scrapped. 这架机器太旧，快报废了。
- It had been thought that passport controls would be scrapped. 人们曾认为会放开护照管制。
- The car dealership has a large inventory of used cars. 这家汽车经销商拥有数量庞大的二手车。
- A key to this effort is the experience in the dealership. 达到这个成果的关键是销售的体验。