AP 2012-07-19
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(七月)
英语课
1. President Barack Obama says Mitt 1 Romney's proposal to free companies from taxes on their foreign holdings would result in job creation overseas, not in the United States. Obama was speaking to supporters in Ohio, a crucial battleground for him as well as Romney.
2. Two American tourists and their Egyptian guide have been freed unharmed. 61-year-old Rev 2. Michel Louis and 39-year-old Lissa Alphonse had been kidnapped from a bus on Friday. The kidnapper 3 says he let them go after he was promised authorities were working on his uncle's release.
3. A Florida teenager has been convicted in a vicious kicking and stomping 4 attack on a girl outside a middle school in 2010. A jury rejected 17-year-old Wayne Treacy's insanity 5 defense 6. He faces up to 50 years in prison.
4. Stephen R. Covey, motivational speaker and author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has died in Idaho, three months after a serious bicycle accident in Utah. He was 79.
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。
v.发动机旋转，加快速度
- It's his job to rev up the audience before the show starts.他要负责在表演开始前鼓动观众的热情。
- Don't rev the engine so hard.别让发动机转得太快。
n.绑架者，拐骗者
- The kidnapper was shot dead then and there by the armed policeman.绑架者被武装警察当时当地击毙。
- The kidnapper strangled the child with a piece of string.绑票的人用一根绳子把这孩子勒死了。
v.跺脚，践踏，重踏( stomp的现在分词 )
- He looked funny stomping round the dance floor. 他在舞池里跺着舞步，样子很可笑。 来自辞典例句
- Chelsea substitution Wright-Phillips for Robben. Wrighty back on his old stomping to a mixed reception. 77分–切尔西换人：赖特．菲利普斯入替罗本。小赖特在主场球迷混杂的欢迎下，重返他的老地方。 来自互联网
n.疯狂，精神错乱；极端的愚蠢，荒唐
- In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.他伪称一时精神错乱，为自己辩解。
- He remained in his cell,and this visit only increased the belief in his insanity.他依旧还是住在他的地牢里，这次视察只是更加使人相信他是个疯子了。