美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2008-02-14
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. Roger Clemens and his former trainer Brain McNamee stuck to their guns before Congressional Committee. Both men were grilled 1 by lawmakers about steroid use in baseball. Clemens said he has never taken steroids or human growth hormone 2.
2. He's calling it 'a booster shot for the economy'. President Bush signed a $160 billion stimulus 3 package into law. The rescue plan includes rebates 4 up to 1200 dollars for most American households. The checks will go out starting in May.
3. Police say a kidnapped Iraqi interpreter working for CBS News has been freed in Basra. But his fellow British journalist is still being held. An Iraqi police official says the man was handed over to authorities at the same hotel where he and his colleagues were kidnapped three days ago.
4. German astronaut Hans Schlegel floated out of the International Space Station for his first spacewalk. His outing comes just two days after an illness forced the shuttle Atlantis crew member to skip a spacewalk to install a new European lab.
- Hormone implants are used as growth boosters.激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。
- This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body.这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
- 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。