AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-01-18
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(一)月
1. President-elect Barack Obama is rolling into D.C., aboard a whistle-stop train tour ahead of his swearing-in on Tuesday. Along the way, he and Vice 1 President-elect Joe Biden promised voters they will fight every day for them while they are in Washington.
2. Meantime, federal and local authorities are putting the finishing touches on their security plan for Tuesday's inauguration 2. At least a million people are expected to converge 3 on the parade route and officials are leaving nothing to chance.
3. Officials in New York have released this video, showing the spectacular splashdown of US Airways 4 Flight 1549. No one was killed as the plane made an emergency water landing. The aircraft is still in the Hudson River as officials work on getting it out.
4. Obama-mania has spread to Brazil. Workers are painting his face onto hundreds of masks that are sure to be a hit come the big carnival 5 celebration.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. whistle-stop: adj.
whistle-stop tour/trip
a trip during which someone, especially a politician, visits many different places in a short period of time
2. finishing touch:
A small change or addition that serves to complete something.
3. splashdown: n.
a landing by a spacecraft or a aricraft in the sea
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
- The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
- Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。
- The results converge towards this truth.其结果趋近于这个真理。
- Parallel lines converge at infinity.平行线永不相交。
- The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
- At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。