AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-10-10
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月
1. The Dow drops below 9,000 for the first time in five years. Investors 1 are gloomy about the economy and the health of corporations. Shares of General Motors tumbled almost 30 percent to their lowest level since 1950.
2. President Bush will meet with finance officials from other industrialized nations, hearing from these ministers how the financial crisis is affecting their economies and what they are doing about it. Bush is expected to stress the need for nations to work together to fix the crisis.
3. North Korea says it is reactivating the compound that produced its first atomic bomb and will ban UN inspectors 2 from the site. All of this brings the nation closer to relaunching its nuclear weapons program.
4. In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits 3. So as a fix, the dollar sign is being switched to a figure--the number "1" is in $10 trillion, marking the current debt of the US government.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. reactivate: v.
If people reactivate a system or organization, they make it work again after a period in which it has not been working.
2. the National Debt Clock: n.
The National Debt Clock is a billboard-sized display installed at the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan which is constantly updated to show the current United States public debt and each family's share. Invented and sponsored by New York real estate developer Seymour Durst, it was installed in 1989. After Seymour's death in 1995, his son Douglas Durst became president of the Durst Organization which owns and maintains the clock.
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
- They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过，通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》