AP 2012-06-22
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(六月)
英语课
1. President Obama and Mitt 1 Romney are duking it out on the economy in Ohio. Strategists in both parties see Ohio as the most contested and vital state in the election.
2. Colorado firefighters are setting back burns to protect homes. The massive blaze west of Fort Collins has grown by at least three acres. The smoke blowing into southeastern Wyoming. It's burned at least 31 homes, forcing more than 1,300 firefighters to work around the clock.
3. R. Allen Stanford has been sentenced to 110 years in prison for orchestrating one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in US history. Last March, a jury convicted the former Texas billionaire on 13 fraud related counts for taking more than $7 billion from investors 2.
4. And Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has fallen ill during a news conference in the Swiss capital of Bern. The opposition 3 leader said she felt exhausted 4 after her long trip from Asia to Europe. It's her first visit to the continent in 24 years.
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。
n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
n.反对，敌对
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。