AP 2012-04-14
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(四月)
英语课
1. Rick Santorum quits the presidential campaign, clearing the way for Mitt 1 Romney to claim the Republican nomination 2. Santorum said for him the race is over, but the fight to beat President Obama goes on.
2. The Miami Marlins suspend manager Ozzie Guillen for five games for comments about Fidel Castro of Cuba. Guillen said he loves Castro and respects the leader for staying in power so long.
3. On the east coast, fire crews are battling brush fires like this one on Long Island. Several homes and businesses were destroyed among thousand acres burned. But high winds could return injuring firefighter.
4. In Hong Kong, this is a female woolly mammoth 3 but is nearly 40,000 years old. The one-month-old was found practically intact in 2007 by a Siberian reindeer 4 herder.
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
- I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
- Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
n.提名，任命，提名权
- John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
- Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
n.长毛象；adj.长毛象似的，巨大的
- You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
- Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。