美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-12-03
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(十二月)
1. Lawmakers don't appear to be moving any closer to an agreement on avoiding so-called "fiscal 1 cliff" in January. Republican leaders are suggesting the White House is failing to outline specific spending cuts that could be made. But democrats 2 say it's up to the Republicans to do that.
2. The holders 3 of the two winning Powerball tickets have 180 days in which to claim their prize. One ticket was sold in Kansas City area, the other near Phoenix 4. The total jackpot was estimated at more than 587 million dollars.
3. Just hours after police say they arrested Lindsay Lohan in New York City for hitting a woman at a night club, the 26-year-old actress was charged in California for a June crash in which her Porsche slammed into a dump truck.
4. And some children on their way to school in Russia stumbled upon this, a lion cub 5. Police say the kids took the lion to their teacher who kept it in the school gym until officials arrived and eventually brought the cub to a zoo.
- The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
- The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
- It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识，才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事，同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。
- The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
- The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。