AP 2011-04-22
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(四月)
1. Stocks plunged 1 as Standard & Poor's Rating Service lowered the long term outlook on US debt to negative from stable. S&P says it has little confidence that Washington will produce a deficit 2 reduction plan before the 2012 elections.
2. North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue is meeting with families who were most devastated 3 by a series of tornadoes 4. Severe weather skipped across a half dozen states over the past few days, leaving as many as 44 people dead and destroying several neighborhoods.
3. A 16-year-old Florida boy has been arrested in connection with the weekend murders of two British tourists. Police are now trying to figure out why the victims voluntarily went to a notorious public housing complex before they were fatally shot.
4. The White House has released the 2010 tax returns of President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The Obamas reported an income of 1.7 million dollars last year and paid nearly $454,000 in federal taxes.
- The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
- She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
- The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
- We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。