时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. Donald Rumsfeld resigned Wednesday as Secretary of Defense 1. President Bush made the announcement during a press conference at the White House, saying he would nominate former CIA director Robert Gates to the post.

2. In Montana, Democratic challenger John Tester has won a very close US Senate race against incumbent 2 and Republican Senator Conrad Burns. With 99% of the precincts reporting, Tester had a lead of just over 3,000 votes.

3. Arabs are outraged 3 over an Israeli attack that killed 18 people in a Gaza town. The Palestinian Health Ministry 4 says among the dead are 8 children from an extended family. An exiled leader of Hamas has declared an end to the truce 5 with Israel and says his group will retaliate 6 "in deeds, not words".

4. And on Interstate 85 near Charlotte, North Carolina, 2 pickups carrying 2 very different kinds of cargo 7 collided Tuesday, leaving a truck full of cows mingling 8 on the road next to a steeple from a church. No one was seriously injured

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. precinct : N=COUNT
A precinct is a part of a city which has its own police force and fire service.

2. extended family : N-COUNT
An extended family is a family group which includes relatives such as uncles, aunts, and grandparents, as well as parents, children, and brothers and sisters.

3. steeple : N-COUNT
A steeple is a tall pointed 9 structure on top of the tower of a church.



1 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
2 incumbent
adj.成为责任的,有义务的;现任的,在职的
  • He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
  • It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。
3 outraged
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
4 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
5 truce
n.休战,(争执,烦恼等的)缓和;v.以停战结束
  • The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
  • She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
6 retaliate
v.报复,反击
  • He sought every opportunity to retaliate against his enemy.他找机会向他的敌人反击。
  • It is strictly forbidden to retaliate against the quality inspectors.严禁对质量检验人员进行打击报复。
7 cargo
n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物
  • The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
  • A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
8 mingling
adj.混合的
  • There was a spring of bitterness mingling with that fountain of sweets. 在这个甜蜜的源泉中间,已经掺和进苦涩的山水了。
  • The mingling of inconsequence belongs to us all. 这场矛盾混和物是我们大家所共有的。
9 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
学英语单词
amidinotaurine
Atlantic Ocean Islands
azimuthal orthomorphic projection
banjo axle
barycenter frame of reference
bijar rug
bipolar heterojunction transistors
black start
blurt ... out
book on ceramics
brignole
bumdockdousse
bunching parameter of a klystron
by grace of
Canadian dollars
canonical state variable
captiving
chyliferous
coaxial drive
common lead correction
concentrated pipe
covert operations
cubic of stationary curvature
demarcation
dermal bone
dithiazole
do nothing instruction
econometric analysis
excursion fares
fasanos
finitely generated Abelian group
fluxing hole
four-centre type reaction
four-hitters
generation-cost
genin
Golytely
Grb10
Hebraises
homagra
humistratous
hygrotons
hyperbranched
lilianes
look forward
M-ary
make good weather
methyl glycerate
midstory
naotic structure
Narbolia
non-expansion cycle
nonastronomical
occipital plane
odd-numbered line
ogcodes taiwanensis
oil fuel burner
oil scavenger
pakaru
palauans
palladium monoxide
pared bark surface
path integral
photoelastic materials
photosensitizer
piolet
pitch plaster
plan recognition
plasmocytic leukemoid reaction
ploppy
Polygonum thunbergii
preboils
pseudocopula
psychoeducational
pyrrodoxycyclin
R.F.head
racing of the engine
related person
screen cloth
sellenin
sesame families
shirky
shrubwood
Sida orientalis
side entrance
SIE (single instruction execute)
Slow astern!
sneak attack
speech anxiety
stroul
swing rake wool-washing machine
the casual poor
three-way calling
tigert
titfield
toluidinesulfonic acid
tower hamlets
transaction program
van der Waals absorption
wading pools
water quality pollutant