AP 2012-03-17
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(三月)
英语课
1. It was a big night for Rick Santorum, who swept the Republican primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. Newt Gingrich and Mitt 1 Romney finished second and third in both states. But Romney ended up winning more delegates than Santorum among the day thanks to caucus 2 victories in Hawaii and American Samoa.
2. Defense 3 Secretary Leon Panetta is in Afghanistan, meeting with President Hamid Karzai. He's trying to smooth out relations following the mistaken burning of Korans at a NATO military base and the killing 4 of 16 civilians 5 allegedly by a US soldier.
3. A transformer fire forced emergency crews to shut off power to a large section of Boston's Back bay. About 2,000 homes and businesses were without electricity. Many have now had their power restored.
4. And Dallas Seavey has won Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. At 25, he is the youngest musher ever to win the nearly 1000 mile race across the the state.
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.秘密会议；干部会议；v.（参加）干部开会议
- This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
- It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。
n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。