AP美联社一分钟新闻(2009-11-22)
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十一)月
1. Health care reform is getting a serious test in Congress. Senators have been debating whether or not to move ahead on reform legislation. Democrats 1 need 60 votes to keep it alive in the chamber 2.
2. Italian prosecutors 3 are asking for a life sentence for accused American murderer Amanda Knox. They say she and two others killed her roommate during a sex game. She denies that and says they were friends.
3. Britain's prime minister has got a first-hand look at the floods that have ravaged 4 the country's northern Lake District. Friday was the wettest day in history there when more than a foot of rain fell. At least one person has been killed by the high water.
4. You can add the city of Chicago to the list of those that mourning the coming end of the Oprah Winfrey Show. Residents and officials say her show helped revitalize part of the downtown, and they fear what will happen when it ends in 2011.
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
- The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。