AP 2012-01-08
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(一月)
英语课
1. Michelle Bachmann has ended her presidential campaign. Meantime, Rick Santorum is trying to become the conservative heavyweight in the Republican race after his near-tie with Iowa caucus 1 winner Mitt 2 Romney.
2. There's a blast of cold weather covering central and south Florida. The monitor showed below-freezing numbers for several hours this morning, get farmers hoping there will be no lasting 3 damage to their crops.
3. Two British men are facing significant jail time, convicted of murdering black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993. Thirty-six-year-old Gary Dobson got 15 years while 35-year-old David Norris was sentenced to 14 years. Two were teens at the time of the killing 4.
4. And officials at London Zoo are doing their annual animal counting, making sure every single mammal, bird and reptile 5 is on site. It's a huge task, last year there were more than 8,000 representing 150 different species.
1 caucus
n.秘密会议；干部会议；v.（参加）干部开会议
- This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
- It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。
2 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
- I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
- Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
3 lasting
adj.永久的，永恒的；vbl.持续，维持
- The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
- We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。