美联社一分钟新闻 2008-07-15
时间：2019-02-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(七)月
1. President Bush has lifted an executive ban on offshore 1 oil drilling. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as well. The ban has stood since his father Bush Senior, was president.
2. Authorities in North Carolina have charged the husband of a Fort Bragg Army nurse with murder. Police discovered her remains 2 in a brush fire three days after she went missing. They've also charged 23-year-old Marine 3 Corporal John Wimunc with first-degree arson 4.
3. The Federal Reserve has adopted new rules designed to protect homebuyers from dubious 5 mortgage lending practices. The move would restrict prepayment penalties imposed on borrowers who pay off a loan early. The Fed is also stopping mortgage companies and brokers 6 from making loans without proof of a borrower's income.
4. And three rare white lion cubs 7 made their debut 8 at a safari 9 park in Germany. A total of seven were born to two different mothers in what the park staff called "a giant surprise" . That's because the mothers had not given birth at the same time in at least 40 years.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. lift: v.
If people in authority lift a law or rule that prevents people from doing something, they end it.
2. stand: v.
If a decision, law, or offer stands, it still exists and has not been changed or cancelled.
3. corporal: n. 【军】下士
a low rank in the army, air force etc.
4. dubious: adj.
If you describe something as dubious, you mean that you do not consider it to be completely honest, safe, or reliable.
5. safari park: n.
A safari park is a large enclosed area of land where wild animals, such as lions and elephants, live freely. People can pay to drive through the park and look at the animals.
- A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
- A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
- When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
- He was serving a ten spot for arson.他因纵火罪在服十年徒刑。
- He was arraigned on a charge of arson.他因被指控犯纵火罪而被传讯。
- What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
- He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。
- The firm in question was Alsbery & Co., whiskey brokers. 那家公司叫阿尔斯伯里公司，经销威士忌。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- From time to time a telephone would ring in the brokers' offices. 那两排经纪人房间里不时响着叮令的电话。 来自子夜部分
- a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
- Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
- The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。