美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2008-02-13
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. A new Bush administration initiative should help homeowners who're about to lose their homes. Project Lifeline will work with homeowners 90 or more days overdue 1 on their monthly mortgage payments. The plan will help make those payments more affordable 2 and will put the foreclosure process on hold for a month.
2. Frustrated 3 fire officials are turning to a private company to help fight a stubborn blaze at a sugar refinery 4. The building is still on fire even though it's been dowsed by thousands of gallons of water by helicopter. Authorities say they will resume searching for the two missing workers once the fire is out.
3. A landlord in Phoenix 5 made a shocking discovery after he thought the renter had abandoned this house. Underneath 6 piles of trash in a bathtub filled with dirt, a mummified body. The homeowner says he's received regular payments for more than ten years.
4. Ten orbiting astronauts are rolling up their sleeves for the next big job, getting the Columbus Lab up and running. After securing the lab to the international space station yesterday, astronauts were able to float inside for the first time.
- The plane is overdue and has been delayed by the bad weather.飞机晚点了，被坏天气耽搁了。
- The landlady is angry because the rent is overdue.女房东生气了，因为房租过期未付。
- The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
- There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。
- It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
- The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They built a sugar refinery.他们建起了一座榨糖厂。
- The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油。
- 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。
- Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
- She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。