AP 2012-02-05
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(二月)
英语课
1. President Barack Obama says programs to help struggling homeowners have not worked as he had hoped, so he's calling on Congress to do more. He's detailing a proposal to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages at lower interest rates.
2. After a big win in Florida, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt 1 Romney says he is toughening up for contests to come. And it's still a long road ahead to reach the critical number of delegates he needs to secure the GOP nomination 2 in August. Up next, Nevada and Maine.
3. Syrian troops are battling army defectors in a string of towns just outside Damascus. The battles are part of last week's offensive that fueled some of the bloodiest 3 days of the nearly 11-month-old uprising.
4. And in Washington DC, buds are starting to come out on the district’s famed cherry blossoms. Near record temperatures here and across a swathe of the country, have winter feeling so far, well, more like spring.
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.提名，任命，提名权
- John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
- Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。