AP 2012-04-01
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(四月)
英语课
1. JetBlue Airlines has suspended pilot Clayton Osbon following a bizarre rant 1 Tuesday on a Las Vegas-bound flight. Passengers wrestled 2 Osbon to the ground as the co-pilot took over the flight and made an emergency landing in Texas.
2. A congressman 3 from Illinois received a reprimand after donning a hoodie during a speech on the House floor deploring 4 the killing 5 of Florida teenager Travon Martin. The presiding officer said Congressman Bobby Rush violated the rule on wearing hats in the House chamber 6.
3. On the third and last day of arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care law, several Supreme 7 Court justices seemed receptive to the idea that portions of the law can survive even if the mandate 8 is struck down.
4. And former Lakers basketball star Magic Johnson is part of a group that has agreed to buy Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers 9 from Frank McCourt for a record $2 billion. The deal still has to be approved by a federal bankruptcy 10 court.
v.咆哮；怒吼；n.大话；粗野的话
- You can rant and rave at the fine,but you'll still have to pay it.你闹也好，骂也好，罚金还是得交。
- If we rant on the net,the world is our audience.如果我们在网络上大声嚷嚷，全世界都是我们的听众。
v.（与某人）搏斗( wrestle的过去式和过去分词 )；扭成一团；扭打；（与…）摔跤
- As a boy he had boxed and wrestled. 他小的时候又是打拳又是摔跤。
- Armed guards wrestled with the intruder. 武装警卫和闯入者扭打起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.（美）国会议员
- He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
- The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
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。
n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所
- 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。
adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
n.托管地；命令，指示
- The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
- The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
n.躲闪者，欺瞒者( dodger的名词复数 )
- a crackdown on fare dodgers on trains 对火车逃票者的严厉打击
- But Twain, Howells, and James were jeeringly described by Mencken as "draft-dodgers". 不过吐温、豪威尔斯和詹姆斯都是被门肯讥诮地叫做“逃避兵役的人。” 来自辞典例句
n.破产；无偿付能力
- You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
- His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。