AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-09
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. The Senate is expected to vote today to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme 1 Court. If confirmed, Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic justice, and just the third woman justice. Sotomayor will replace Justice David Souter.
2. A South Florida newlywed remains 2 behind bars after allegedly hiring an undercover police officer to kill her husband. Police say 26-year-old Dalia Dippolito tried to offer the officer 1,200 dollars for a handgun and another 3,000 over 6 months for a murder. Dippolito was charged with solicitation 3 to commit first-degree murder.
3. The Insurance Institute for Highway safety says out of the 6 most popular midsize sedans, none of them gets a top rating in bumper 4 safety crash tests. Only the Mazda 6 got an "acceptable" rating. The result is based on the average cost to repair front, rear and corner bumpers 5 following a 6-mile-an-hour crash.
4. The mayor of Hiroshima is urging global leaders to back President Barack Obama's call to abolish nuclear weapons. Today marks the 64th anniversary of the day the Enola Gay dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb killed an estimated 140,000 people.
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- Make the first solicitation of the three scheduled this quarter. 进行三位名单上预期捐助人作本季第一次邀请捐献。 来自互联网
- Section IV is about the proxy solicitation system and corporate governance. 随后对委托书的格式、内容、期限以及能否实行有偿征集、征集费用由谁承担以及违反该制度的法律责任进行论述，并提出自己的一些见解。 来自互联网
- The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
- This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。