美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-02-17
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2014(二)月
英语课
1. An ice storm gripped the winter-wary South Wednesday, knocking out power of hundreds thousands people over a wide swath of the region. Forecasters are warning the worst of potentially "catastrophic" storm is yet to come that moves up to the east coast to Wednesday night and to Thursday.
2. A federal jury has convicted former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin on charges he accepted bribe 1 , free trip and other favors from contractors 2 in exchange for millions of dollars in city work while he was in office. Nagin could face decades in prison. No sentencing data has been set.
3. American Kaitlyn Farrington captured gold in the woman's Olympic snowboarding Halfpipe final Wednesday, edging out the defending champion Torah Bright and US teammate Kelly Clark for the title. The victory gave US just its third gold medal of the games.
n.贿赂；v.向…行贿，买通
- He tried to bribe the policeman not to arrest him.他企图贿赂警察不逮捕他。
- He resolutely refused their bribe.他坚决不接受他们的贿赂。
n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )
- We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》