时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2012(十一月)


英语课

 1. Today is the election day with voters heading to the polls 1 across the nation. The tiny New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch 2 reflected the tight race in the national polls. President Obama and Mitt 3 Romney each got five votes there.


 
 
 
2. Mitt Romney is making a last-minute push in the key swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, campaigning in Cleveland and Petersburg. 
 
 
 
3. President Obama finished campaign in Monday night in Iowa. He is spending election day in Chicago, and has a dozen radio and TV interviews schedules.
 
 
 
4. More than one million homes and businesses still do not have power a week after super storm Sandy hit the east coast. A new storm with heavy rain and up to 55-mile an hour winds is forecast to hit the east coast Wednesday. 

民意调查( poll的名词复数 ); 民意调查的结果; 投票选举; 投票数
  • The two candidates are in a dead heat in the polls. 两名候选人在民意测验中势均力敌。
  • Opinion polls indicated a two-thirds majority in favour of ratification of the treaty. 民意调查表明2/3 的多数票赞成批准这个条约。
n.(V字形)槽口,缺口,等级
  • The peanuts they grow are top-notch.他们种的花生是拔尖的。
  • He cut a notch in the stick with a sharp knife.他用利刃在棒上刻了一个凹痕。
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
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