AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-02-21
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(二)月
1.Mayors come to the White House where President Barack Obama says his 787-billion-dollar economic package will help struggling cities, but Washington and cities have a responsibility to spend the money wisely.
2.A global search is on for the billions of dollars investors 1 entrusted 2 to Allen Stanford. Authorities tracked down the Texas billionaire in Virginia, serving him with a criminal complaint accusing him of committing an 8-billion-dollar fraud.
3.The leader of the Likud Party in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has six weeks to form the country's next government. He came in second in recent parliamentary elections. Netanyahu wants centrist rivals to join him in a unity 3 coalition 4.
4.In Australia, a zoo in Sydney is welcoming the birth of two meerkats pups, the first to be born here in nine years. Zanzibar and Nairobi are now four weeks old and eating worms. Meerkats are native to a desert region in southern Africa.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.serve with: phrase
to give a subpoena requiring the appearance in court to give testimony to somebody
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
- He entrusted the task to his nephew. 他把这任务托付给了他的侄儿。
- She was entrusted with the direction of the project. 她受委托负责这项计划。 来自《简明英汉词典》