AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-01-29)
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(一月)
1. President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting in Ohio. There, he calls on Congress to enact 1 a new job-creation bill, and he demands that include tax breaks for small businesses hiring and for people who make their homes more energy efficient.
2. Eighty-four-year-old Haitian woman has been pulled alive from the rubble 2 ten days after Haiti's killer 3 earthquake. But the doctor says she may not survive. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Haitians are fleeing their quake-ravaged capital. Haiti's government is promising 4 to move others into tent cities.
3. Opening arguments are under way in the trial of a man accused of killing 5 an abortion 6 doctor in Kansas. Scott Roeder is charged with premeditated first-degree murder.
4. The airliner 7 that ended up in the Hudson River has landed again, this time, on the auction 8 blog. An insurance firm is putting the Airbus A320 up for sale online. It describes the plane, minus its two engines, as having severe water damage.
- The U.S. Congress has exclusive authority to enact federal legislation.美国国会是唯一有权颁布联邦法律的。
- For example,a country can enact laws and economic policies to attract foreign investment fairly quickly.例如一个国家可以很快颁布吸引外资的法令和经济政策。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
- We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
- A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。