时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2014(十一)月


英语课

 1. Senate Republicans are vowing 1 to thwart 2 President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration which he will announce tonight in a primetime address. Minority leader, Mitch McConnell says once Republicans are seated as the majority in both Houses next year, Congress will act to stop Obama’s plan.


 
2. The gunman in a shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee was an alumnus and an attorney. Myron May worked for the District Attorney’s office in Las Cruces New Mexico. He shot and wounded 3 people in the campus library before being killed by police.
 
3. Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protestors in an east Jerusalem neighbourhood Thursday. Road blocks were set up following a spike 3 and deadly violence. The move angered Palestine residents. Jewish residents say they fear for their safety.
 
4. And the good news for Thanksgiving travellers is the price of gas is at the 5-year lows. The bad news, a lot more people will hit the road. AAA estimates 46.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more for the holiday weekend.

1 vowing
起誓,发誓(vow的现在分词形式)
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。
2 thwart
v.阻挠,妨碍,反对;adj.横(断的)
  • We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
  • I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。
3 spike
n.长钉,钉鞋;v.以大钉钉牢,使...失效
  • The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
  • They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。
学英语单词
african legal consultative committee
agazadehs
area reduction
atrichic
be inapprehensive of
berthing accommodation
bile duct disease
black tidings
Blutgernnungszeit
bodysnatcher
cappellas
carrier frequency shift
cataract canyons
ceel afweyn (el afwein)
cell dissociation buffer
Chalchuapa
child surgery
Chilean firebush
chlorobenzyls
co-ax
complete but imperfect information
Crafts' butter
Dawson, George Mercer
depraved appetite
depth ratchet setting
dry lakes
Dīma Shet'
earprints
Echeneidae
eczematous blepharitis
Emines
epling
excess surplus value
expected mean
fiddle head
flash bang
for further detail
Frank-Care cyanamide process
frequency-selective device
freshies
freshwater geomagnetic electrokinetograph
grid leak
heat of sorption
height of weir
helicone
Helsingor
hippasa agelenoides
hylaeion
iaopa
illineal
inside-the-Beltway
isolation damper
Jaén, Prov.de
Job Messaging Format
Kawhia
khitomer
ksca
lichen aureus
log slide
lustre (luster)
million-dollar question
mixed asthma
Morus wittiorum
mosaicking
mouth off
N-formiminoglutamate
naptural
operating noise figure
origin authentication
polar moment
powdered starch
promyelocytes
proton spin
retirement communities
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sacristine
seamless tube rolling mill
sedimentation sizing method
self-releasing
serotina
Shanya
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single fillet
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soft fat
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spray wall tank
stockholm pitch
tendons of achilles
thalidastine
timing resistor
torrelavega
unfixedness
unviably
unwrung
vat under brine
ventripotent
victoria beckham
voltage behind subtransient reactance of synchronous generator
weisiopsis anomala (broth et par)broth
ylive