CNN 2008-11-26
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(十一)月
Hello, from the CNN Center here in Atlanta, I’m Melissa Long. It is Tuesday afternoon. Here is a look at some of the stories happening at this hour.
In Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama spoke 1 for the second straight day on his plans for confronting the nation's financial crisis. He introduced other members of his financial team, Peter Orszag for the Director of Office of Management and Budget in that nomination 2. The president-elect says his first priority is to create or save 2.5 million jobs.
Treasury 3 Secretary Henry Paulson unveiling 800 billion dollars new programs designed to encourage consumer lending. One plan would purchase assets, bad securities from government mortgage lenders, another would loan money to those holding securities so they could increase lending.
A new government report shows the economies took an even bigger tumble, the sum more than first thought. The third-quarter Gross Domestic Product, the GDP decline was a 0.5%. It was originally tagged less than one third of one percent. This marks the biggest drop in 7 years.
Chaos 4 in Thailand's capital, today anti-government protestors swarm 5 in Bangkok International Airport, forcing the suspension of all departing flights. This unrest also spilled into the streets where opponents and supporters of the government fought each other with guns, knives and sling 6 shots. Police say 11 people were injured.
Pirates have hijacked 7 another ship off the east coast of Africa. Dozens of ships have been attacked in the region in recent weeks. This new information is coming from a group that keeps tabs on sailors captured by pirates. No details yet on this ship or the size of its crew.
And those are some of the headlines making news at this hour. Do stay with CNN and cnn.com for more on these stories or other news of today.
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
- Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
- 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。
- After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
- The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
- There is a swarm of bees in the tree.这树上有一窝蜜蜂。
- A swarm of ants are moving busily.一群蚂蚁正在忙碌地搬家。
- The boy discharged a stone from a sling.这个男孩用弹弓射石头。
- By using a hoist the movers were able to sling the piano to the third floor.搬运工人用吊车才把钢琴吊到3楼。