AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-24
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十一)月
1. A Democratic official says President-elect Barack Obama will name New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as commerce secretary. The official says Obama plans to announce the selection after Thanksgiving.
2. Three people have been shot, one critically inside a northern New Jersey 1 church. Some two hundred people reportedly were inside the Asian-Indian house of worship in Clifton when the gunman opened fire just before noon.
3. Asian and Pacific countries are predicting the world's economic crisis will be history by the summer of 2010. The optimistic forecast comes at the end of the APEC summit in Peru. The goal is to overhaul 2 global regulations to prevent future crisis.
4. And rescuers returned eleven pilot whales to sea Sunday. That's a day after officials say they discovered a pod of 64 mothers and calves 3 stranded 4 on a beach in southeastern Australia. Rescuers say they hope the whales will rejoin another migratory 5 pod once they swim back into the Bass 6 Strait.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. pilot whale: n. 【动】巨头鲸,圆头鲸
a small whale with black skin
2. pod: n.
a group of sea animals, such as whales or dolphins, that swim together
3. calves: n.
the plural of calf
the baby of a cow, or of some other large animals, such as an elephant or whale
- 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。
- Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
- It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知，铁路系统需要大检修。
- a cow suckling her calves 给小牛吃奶的母牛
- The calves are grazed intensively during their first season. 小牛在生长的第一季里集中喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。