AP 2012-02-12
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(二月)
英语课
1. Rick Santorum surprised just about everybody, winning all three Republican presidential contests on Tuesday. Santorum took home wins in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. Back in 2008, Minnesota and Colorado voted for Mitt 1 Romney.
2. House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban Congress members from insider trading. This version of the bill would ban lawmakers from using their positions to invest in initial public stock offerings.
3. Russia's foreign minister says Syrian President Bashar Assad wants his vice 2 president to negotiate with opposition 3 forces. The opposition wants Assad to step down.
4. And fishermen in Pakistan needed cranes to lift this catch out of the water. The whale shark, already dead when it was found, is 39 feet long. It was reportedly auctioned 4 off for $18,000.
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.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
- 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。
n.反对，敌对
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。