AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-10-22
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月
1. More moves from the Federal Reserve to break through a credit clog 1. The central bank announcing it will buy commercial paper--short-term funding companies rely on for day-to-day expenses. All of this to stimulate 2 lending and stop a deep economic slowdown.
2. A relative says Barack Obama's 85-year-old grandmother broke her hip 3 recently and is "gravely ill". She helped to raise Obama. The candidate will take a break from the campaign trail and visit her in Hawaii.
3. Low-key talks between the US and Russia in Finland, the highest-level meeting between the two since Russia's war with US ally Georgia. Discussion topics include Afghanistan, the Black Sea region and Georgia.
4. In Russia, brown bears get ready to return to the wild from this rehab center formed to help rescue orphan 4 bear cubs 5. Some three thousand cubs go homeless every year during hunting season.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. clog: n.
An obstruction 6 or hindrance 7.
2. commercial paper: n. 商业票据
Short-term, unsecured, discounted, and negotiable notes sold by one company to another in order to satisfy immediate 8 cash needs.
3. low-key: adj.
If you say that something is low-key, you mean that it is on a small scale rather than involving a lot of activity or being made to seem impressive or important.
- In cotton and wool processing,short length fibers may clog sewers.在棉毛生产中，短纤维可能堵塞下水管道。
- These streets often clog during the rush hour.这几条大街在交通高峰时间常常发生交通堵塞。
- Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
- Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。
- The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
- The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
- He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine.他把一个孤儿养大，并且把自己的医术传给了他。
- The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。
- a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
- Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She was charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty.她被指控妨碍警察执行任务。
- The road was cleared from obstruction.那条路已被清除了障碍。
- Now they can construct tunnel systems without hindrance.现在他们可以顺利地建造隧道系统了。
- The heavy baggage was a great hindrance to me.那件行李成了我的大累赘。