时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(一)月


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1. President Bush is praising a bipartisan economic stimulus 1 package that would give most tax filers refunds 2 of 600 to 1200 dollars, and those with kids may get even more. The rebates 3 which are expected to go out in June will cost about $100 billion.


2. Meantime, Ford 4 Motor Company is offering buy-out and early retirement 5 packages to more than 50,000 hourly U.S. workers. It's an effort by the automaker to cut costs and replace those leaving with lower-paid workers. The automaker earlier reported losses in the fourth quarter.


3. This Marine 6 has been indicted 7 on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a pregnant colleague. But prosecutors 8 say Cpl. Cesar Laurean won't face the death penalty if he is caught in Mexico. It's believed Laurean fled to his native country, which refuses to send anyone back to the U.S. who faces the death penalty.


4. Check out this smash and grab. Thieves stole an ATM by using a pickup 9 truck and chain to yank it free. It was all caught on a Detroit area gas station surveillance camera.



1 stimulus
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
2 refunds
n.归还,偿还额,退款( refund的名词复数 )v.归还,退还( refund的第三人称单数 )
  • Tomorrow he would return them to the store and claim refunds. 明天他要把它们退还给商店并要求退款。 来自辞典例句
  • The new method means that taxpayers get refunds much faster. 这种新办法意味着纳税人可以较快地领到退还款。 来自辞典例句
3 rebates
n.退还款( rebate的名词复数 );回扣;返还(退还的部份货价);折扣
  • The VAT system offers advantages, such as rebates on exports. 增值税有其优点,如对出口商品实行回扣。 来自辞典例句
  • In more recent years rate rebates have been introduced for households. 近年地方税的减免已适用于家庭。 来自辞典例句
4 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
5 retirement
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
6 marine
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
7 indicted
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
8 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
9 pickup
n.拾起,获得
  • I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。
学英语单词
accumulative value
air nozzle
american tv series
automatic calculator
bang at
birdnesting
Black Cats
bulk carrier safety
calrissian
calypso-like
capul
central processing system
clodpole
combination starter
compensatory error
creatine phosphoric acid
D. P. L.
davit cleat
death-cell
debella
decussation of superior cerebellar peduncle
deirs
desirs
detartrate
diagenetic facies
diaminodihydroxyarsenobenzene
dip-coats
drengage
enchafed
equation governing the motion
feedback information
feedback type current transformer
final approach point (fap)
financial statement audit
financial worries
finite-wordlength effects
fluocinolone
geloscopy
german americans
grandstander
hydrometric current-meter
IAPSO
idle balance
II Peter
immunoinhibit
information-handling
initial public offering
it works for me
learning control system
leather-leafed
liquefied carbon dioxide tank vehicle
manukayami
Martian magnetosphere
mechanical hand
mental restriction
mohavite octahedral borax
much-larger
multicolor emission
mundick (pyrite)
neon-tube transformer
nestar
news of the world
nine-inch equivalent
nitropuine
non-aquifer area
nonleaded gasoline
ogcoite
oil-industry analysts
ophioglossid
Osborne, L.
papistic
phascolarctid
pinacothecas
Pinney.
plan sheet
Poa botryoides
polysphondylium pseudocandidum
procheilia
propane dewaxing process
push button for bell
raiotelephone call
readjustment of investment structure
reclamation depot
recover loans
Rumia
Schweringen
self draught beam
self sealing capacitor
siphonless
snappy spring cover
softball court
standard reinforced fillet weld
strong structure
submarine earthquakes
thrust one's oar into
transfer-rna
twin-screw extruder
Tytonidae
vertical auger drill
visceral lesion
wood lathe
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