AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-02-17
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(二)月
1.The families of those who died in the crash of flight 3407 are getting a look at the site where their loved ones perished.50 people were killed last week when the plane dropped out of the sky onto a house near Buffalo 1.
2.President Barack Obama and the first family have returned to the White House from a weekend in Chicago. The spokesman says decision on troop deployments to Afghanistan should come soon. Obama will also sign the stimulus 2 bill this week and it is expected to appoint a task force on the auto 3 industry.
3.Heavy rain and storm are hitting California today. The National Weather Services posted a winter storm warning for the Sierra Nevada and issued flood advisories 4 in the Bay area to Los Angeles. The storm is raising fears of mudslides in areas hit by wildfires last year.
4.Wildlife official are celebrating the sighting of a beaver 5 in the Detroit River for the first time in at least 75 years, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off. The critter was caught on camera at a Detroit Edison riverfront plant.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.task force: n.
A task force (TF) is a temporary unit or formation established to work on a single defined task or activity.
2.beaver: n.海狸
Beavers 6 are two primarily nocturnal, semi-aquatic species of rodent 7, one native to North America and one to Europe. They are known for building dams, canals, and lodges 8.
- Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
- The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。
- Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
- Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- Compliance with Practice Advisories is optional. 是否遵守实务公告由审计师自行选择决定。 来自互联网
- Hardened-PHP: not as such a PHP security information website, but it does have security advisories. 增强PHP:不仅仅是一个PHP安全新的网站，它还提供安全建议。 来自互联网
- The hat is made of beaver.这顶帽子是海狸毛皮制的。
- A beaver is an animals with big front teeth.海狸是一种长着大门牙的动物。
- In 1928 some porpoises were photographed working like beavers to push ashore a waterlogged mattress. 1928年有人把这些海豚象海狸那样把一床浸泡了水的褥垫推上岸时的情景拍摄了下来。
- Thus do the beavers, thus do the bees, thus do men. 海狸是这样做的，蜜蜂是这样做的，人也是这样做的。
- When there is a full moon,this nocturnal rodent is careful to stay in its burrow.月圆之夜，这种夜间活动的啮齿类动物会小心地呆在地洞里不出来。
- This small rodent can scoop out a long,narrow tunnel in a very short time.这种小啮齿动物能在很短的时间里挖出一条又长又窄的地道来。