美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-03
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月
1.The Coast Guard says it will continue to search waters off Florida's Gulf 1 Coast for three missing boaters. That's after crews rescued a fourth man. Former University of South Florida football player Nick Schuyler was clinging to an overturned boat that belongs to Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper.
2.More than a million school kids from South Carolina to New Hampshire had a day off. That's thanks to a massive late-winter snow storm that hit the eastern seaboard. The weather is blamed for four deaths, hundreds of cancelled flights and power outages in New Jersey 2, Virginia and the Carolinas.
3.President Barack Obama has introduced Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his choice to be secretary of health and human services. Obama also announced he had selected Nancy-Ann DeParle to be director of the White House Office for Health Reform.
4.And rescuers in Tasmania are racing 3 against the clock. They are trying to save nearly 200 stranded 4 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins. Scientists say it's unusual for this many to get stranded together.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.cling to: phrase
to stick to someone or something, or seem to surround them
2.bottlenose: n. [动]宽吻海豚
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
- They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
- I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
- The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。