美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-25
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月
1. Treasury 1 Secretary Timothy Geithner wants Congress to give him new powers to regulate huge companies like AIG. During a hearing in Congress, Geithner said the government must ensure the country never has to slog through a massive bailout again.
2. A dip in the Red River upstream from Fargo, North Dakota is providing some encouragement to sandbaggers. Crews trying to get ready for an expected 39- to 41-foot crest 2. Forecasters say this is good news, but it is too early to say if Fargo will be spared.
3. A fourth police officer in Oakland, California has died after being shot by a man wanted on a parole violation 3. The officer was declared brain-dead on Sunday but kept alive, so organs could be donated to patients.
4. This is Elke, a five-day-old monkey in Australia that's being hand-raised by zoo staff. For now, rejected by her mother, the palm-size primate 4 is making do with a warm quilt instead of her mum's belly 5 and chest.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. slog through:
If you slog through something, you work hard and steadily 6 through it.
2. be spared:
If a person or a place is spared, they are not harmed, even though other people or places have been.
3. make do:
If you make do with something, you use or have it instead of something else that you do not have, although it is not as good.
- The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
- This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
- The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
- He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。
- He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说，那是违反规则的。
- He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。
- 14 percent of primate species are highly endangered.14%的灵长类物种处于高度濒危状态。
- The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。