美联社新闻一分钟 AP 美国议员逃离得州度假遭批

This is AP News Minute.

这里是美联社一分钟新闻。

As Texas remains¹ in the grip of an unprecedented² freeze, US Senator Ted³ Cruz was seen at the airport in Cancun after reportedly purchasing a ticket home Thursday. Cruz said he had traveled to Mexico for a family vacation, leaving his home state as thousands of constituents⁴ struggled without power or safe drinking water.

由于德克萨斯州仍处于前所未有的寒潮状态，美国参议员特德·克鲁兹被拍到现身坎昆机场，据报道，他周四购买了一张回家的机票。克鲁兹表示，他和家人因为到墨西哥度假，所以离开了家乡，与此同时，成千上万的选民因断电或缺乏安全饮用水而苦不堪言。

House lawmakers grilled⁵ the CEO of online trading platform Robinhood as they examine the recent wild swings in the price of GameStop stock. Keith Gill, a GameStop enthusiast⁶ known online as Roaring Kitty also testified. The company shares soared 1,600% in January thanks in part platforms like Robinhood.

众议院议员在调查GameStop股价最近的大幅波动时，盘问了在线交易平台Robinhood的首席执行官。GameStop爱好者基斯·吉尔(Keith Gill)也出庭作证，他在网上被称为“咆哮的凯蒂猫”(Roaring Kitty)。得益于Robinhood等平台，该公司股价在1月份飙升了1600%。

Democrats⁷ unveiled a major immigration overhaul⁸ that would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship⁹ for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status. The legislation reflects the immigration reform priorities that President Joe Biden laid out on his first day in office.

民主党公布了一项重大的移民改革方案，将为美国境内大约1100万没有合法身份的人提供一项为期8年的入籍途径。这项立法反映了乔·拜登(Joe Biden)总统上任第一天提出的移民改革重点。

And a NASA rover has landed on Mars in a quest to bring back rocks that could answer the question whether life ever existed on the red planet.

美国航空航天局(NASA)的一辆漫游者已经登陆火星，试图带回一些岩石，以回答火星上是否曾经存在生命的问题。

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

3 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

4 constituents   

n.选民( constituent的名词复数 )；成分；构成部分；要素

参考例句：

• She has the full support of her constituents. 她得到本区选民的全力支持。
• Hydrogen and oxygen are the constituents of water. 氢和氧是水的主要成分。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 grilled   

adj. 烤的, 炙过的, 有格子的 动词grill的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• He was grilled for two hours before the police let him go. 他被严厉盘查了两个小时后，警察才放他走。
• He was grilled until he confessed. 他被严加拷问，直到他承认为止。

6 enthusiast   

n.热心人，热衷者

参考例句：

• He is an enthusiast about politics.他是个热衷于政治的人。
• He was an enthusiast and loved to evoke enthusiasm in others.他是一个激情昂扬的人，也热中于唤起他人心中的激情。

7 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 overhaul   

v./n.大修，仔细检查

参考例句：

• Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
• It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知，铁路系统需要大检修。

9 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。