AP美联社一分钟新闻(2009-10-24)
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十)月
1.Attorney General Eric Holder 1 calls the arrest of more than 300 people, the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the US. More than 3000 Federal agents and police officers made the arrest in more than a dozen States.
2.President Barack Obama says Americans’ values are offended by excessive paychecks for executives since companies were bailed 2 out by taxpayers 3. The Treasury 4 Department has ordered seven big companies that haven't paid back last year's government bailouts to cut their top executives’ average compensation in half.
3.Flowers and dozens of Teddy bears have been placed near the Florida home of 7-year-old Somer Thompson. She disappeared on her way home from school Monday. A body believed to be hers is found Wednesday at a trash dump.
4.And El Paso，Texas，has earned a dubious 5 honor. Totalbeauty.com says it’s home to the ugliest men in the America. They base the ranking on the fact that about a third of men there are obese 6 and an equal number get no exercise.
- The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
- That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。
- Fortunately the pilot bailed out before the plane crashed. 飞机坠毁之前，驾驶员幸运地跳伞了。
- Some water had been shipped and the cook bailed it out. 船里进了些水，厨师把水舀了出去。
- 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。
- 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。