美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-10-21_在线英语听力室

(单词翻译:双击或拖选)

1. Mitt¹ Romney says President Barack Obama has failed America's women. The Republican nominee² says women have suffered through high unemployment and high poverty rates during Obama's term. Romney says he has a better plan to help them.

2. Meanwhile, the president is ridiculing³ Romney's five-point plan for the economy as a sketchy⁴ deal. Obama says Romney won't reveal details by how to pay for his proposed 20% cut in tax rates.

3. Health officials say four more people have died in the national meningitis outbreak, that brings the number of deaths to 19. The deaths have been tied to steroid shots for back pain.

4. And a bit of a surprise as an earthquake struck southern Maine Tuesday night. People attending this town meeting quickly left the building as a 4.0-magnitude tremblor struck.

点击

收听单词发音

1 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

2 nominee
n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者
参考例句：
His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。 Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

3 ridiculing
v.嘲笑，嘲弄，奚落( ridicule的现在分词 )
参考例句：
Proxmire has made himself quite a reputation out of ridiculing government expenditure he disagrees with. 普罗克斯迈尔对于他不同意花的政府开支总要取笑一番，他因此而名声大振。来自辞典例句 The demonstrators put on skits ridiculing the aggressors. 游行的人上演了活报剧来讽刺侵略者。来自互联网

4 sketchy
adj.写生的，写生风格的，概略的
参考例句：
The material he supplied is too sketchy.他提供的材料过于简略。 Details of what actually happened are still sketchy.对于已发生事实的详细情况知道的仍然有限。

在线英语听力室_免费在线英语听力学习网站

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-10-21