AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-02-09
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(二)月
1. Treasury 1 Secretary Timothy Geithner will unveil the Obama administration's new framework to aid the financial sector 2 on Tuesday. Geithner had been scheduled to announce the plan Monday. He will use the delay to focus on the Senate's effort to pass an economic recovery package.
2. The Ohio sheriff who took part in a massive rescue operation on Lake Erie says authorities should reconsider civil penalties for stranded 3 ice fishermen. The Coast Guard and other rescuers had to use helicopters and airboats to reach 134 anglers on a miles-long ice floe 4. One man died.
3. More than 80 people are dead as a result of the worst wildfires in Australia in a quarter century. The fires have also burned hundreds of homes in Victoria Province. The prime minister has ordered millions of dollars in emergency aid.
4. Jennifer Figge became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. The 56-year-old left Cape 5 Verde Islands off Africa's west coast January 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds. She arrived in Trinidad Sunday.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. framework: n.
A framework is a particular set of rules, ideas, or beliefs which you use in order to deal with problems or to decide what to do.
2. ice floe: n.
an area of ice floating in the sea, that has broken off from a larger mass
- The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
- This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
- The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
- The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
- He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
- I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。
- Two penguins are standing on ice floe.两只企鹅站在一块浮冰上。
- Somehow the seal manages to reach a tiny ice floe.不知何故，海豹设法到达了一块小浮冰上。