AP 2012-01-05
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. The Iowa caucuses 1 take place today, and Mitt 2 Romney is predicting, no win. But as of early Tuesday, many of Iowa's Republican voters still hadn't settled on a favorite candidate. Romney is expected to be challenged by Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.
2. President Barack Obama wasted little time getting back in front of voters following a ten-day Hawaii vacation. From Washington, the president will host a live web chat with supporters in Iowa tonight as the caucuses are unfolding.
3. Egypt is holding a third round of the country's first parliamentary elections following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. Islamist parties are expected to win the majority in the 498-seat lower house.
4. And police in New York are keeping watch on an Islamic cultural center that was firebombed Sunday. The building's entrance was struck by a pair of Molotov cocktails 3. A private house that is used as a Hindu house of worship was also hit. Authorities are investigating the attacks as bias 4 crimes.
1 caucuses
n.（政党决定政策或推举竞选人的）核心成员( caucus的名词复数 )；决策干部；决策委员会；秘密会议
- Republican caucuses will happen in about 410 towns across Maine. 共和党团会议选举将在缅因州的约410个城镇进行。 来自互联网
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。