AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-27
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 Dow closes up as talks drag on in Washington about rescuing the nation's financial institutions. Plans for a 700-billion-dollar bailout come as US suffers its largest bank collapse 1 in history. Republicans on Capitol Hill want less government in the plan and lower cost for taxpayers 2.
2.First presidential debate is on. Republican John McCain is in Oxford 3, Mississippi, to face Democratic rival Barack Obama. This comes after McCain called off plans to attend because of the financial crisis.
3.German police nabbed two Somali men on a plane headed for Amsterdam acting 4 on a suicide note saying they wanted to fight in a holy war and die in a terrorist attack. The men were not armed.
4.Something strange in the air over the English Channel, a daredevil stunt 5 man wearing wings and jet turbines. This Swiss man flew from France to England wiggling his body to control the homemade wing.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.drag on Also, drag out. Prolong or be prolonged tediously.
The speech dragged on for another hour, or He dragged out the story in an excruciating manner.
2.call off
to cancel (something) that had been planned for a certain date:
The performance was called off because of rain.
3.nab v.Informal
to arrest or capture
4.act on
to act in accordance with; follow
He acted on my advice.
5.turbine涡轮
6.wiggle vt.
To cause to move back and forth with quick irregular motions
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
- She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
- At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
- This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。