AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-29
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(九)月
1. The details are being finalized 2. But New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg says they've "worked out everything" . That is a new and improved financial bailout plan emerges in Washington. Congressional leaders hope to have a House vote on the measure tomorrow and vote in the Senate later on.
2. Four people are dead after a medical helicopter crashed in a suburban 3 Washington park early Sunday. The chopper was carrying victims of a traffic accident. It was the deadliest medevac accident in Maryland in 40 years.
3. Powerful winds and heavy rain came down on Taiwan as another typhoon made landfall. It's the fourth and most powerful typhoon to hit the island this year. Areas in and around the capital of Taipei experience wind gust 4 of up to 140 miles per hour.
4. And rescuers say it took seven hours but they managed to help get a whale untangled from a net off the coast of Australia. Rescuers think the whale had been dragging the net and its anchors for more than a week.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
If you finalize 1 something such as a plan or an agreement, you complete the arrangements for it, especially by discussing it with other people.
2. chopper: n.
A chopper is a helicopter. (INFORMAL)
3. medevac: n.
Air transport of persons to a place where they can receive medical or surgical 5 care.
4. untangle: v.
If you untangle something that is knotted or has become twisted around something, you undo 6 the knots in it or free it.
- Let us finalize tonight.让我们今天晚上干完
- 。At the same time,industrial designers work with engineers to finalize components and assembly.同时，工业设计师和工程师一道来完成部件和组装部分的工作。
- The draft of this article has been finalized [done]. 这篇文章已经定稿。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The draft was revised several times before it was finalized. 稿子几经删改才定下来。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
- There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
- A gust of wind blew the front door shut.一阵大风吹来，把前门关上了。
- A gust of happiness swept through her.一股幸福的暖流流遍她的全身。