美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2008-02-02
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(二)月
1. President Bush says the latest unemployment numbers are a serious sign the economy is in trouble and another reason Congress needs to pass his economic stimulus 1 plan. The figures released this morning show that for the first time in over four years, the country actually lost jobs from one month to the next.
2. Microsoft is making a bid to buy Yahoo. The company is offering nearly 45 billion dollars in an unsolicited bid to buy the Internet giant.
3. Officials in Iraq say the two women at the center of today's deadly bomb attack in Baghdad may have been unwilling 2 participants. They say the women were mentally retarded 3, and the bombs were strapped 4 to them, and were being controlled remotely. More than 70 people were killed.
4. Heavy, wet snow is making life tougher for people from Texas to the Great Lakes. It fell at a rate of more than an inch an hour today in Chicago and tied up traffic for hours. It's also forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights out of O'Hare.
- Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
- Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
- The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
- His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
- The progression of the disease can be retarded by early surgery. 早期手术可以抑制病情的发展。
- He was so slow that many thought him mentally retarded. 他迟钝得很，许多人以为他智力低下。