时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课

American airlines canceled about 200 flights today for inspections 1. Officials say the planes would return to service after crews check some wire bonders on the aircraft. It came after an order by a joint 2 \ of inspectors 3 by the FAA and the airline itself.


 


New home sales fell in February for the fourth street month after pushing activities down to a 13-year low as the s\ slum continues. That claim was sliding worse than had been expected.


 


A longtime Hollywood actor who often portrayed 4 killers 5, corpse 6 and western gunslingers was dead. Richard Wildmark died at his Connecticut home at the age of 93. Wildmark received the best supporting nomination 7 for \ 1947 role in "Kiss of Death".


 



1 inspections
n.检查( inspection的名词复数 );检验;视察;检阅
  • Regular inspections are carried out at the prison. 经常有人来视察这座监狱。
  • Government inspections ensure a high degree of uniformity in the standard of service. 政府检查确保了在服务标准方面的高度一致。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
3 inspectors
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 portrayed
v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中,他始终把自己说成是受害者。
  • The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 killers
凶手( killer的名词复数 ); 消灭…者; 致命物; 极难的事
  • He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
  • They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
6 corpse
n.尸体,死尸
  • What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
  • The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。
7 nomination
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
学英语单词
access programme
analogue recording
argument value
Armistice Day
aspersoria
ass breaths
assignee in involvency
auerswaldiella lithocarpicola
belligerent
Bologna flask
branding irons
building block valve
cementing property
chansler
chaotic deposit
commercialization of housing
controlled wall blasting
crosswise inheritance
cryogenic liquid tank
davyds
decision method
Dhahab, Wādī
divulgate
down-market
Drypetes salicifolia
electronic musical instrument
enterlacing
farmage
fine-gauge machine
Finnan
flight balance
flight dynamics officer
fluming
full graphic panel
full-farest
galianoes
genus althaeas
germ bread
handirons
head-to-row test
heat rum test
hepta-valent neptunium ion
homoeopath
hypermetropic eye
inlays
Isospora bigemina
jdb
La Clayette
lauroyls
law lords
let it die
lymphotoxins
Mazomeno
Meggers lamp
modular analog computer
multiple directional control valve
myskina
nasutitermes takasagoensis
non-classical prescriptions
Novomikanit
nulhomotopic
octosyllables
on-again
overtaken vessel
parabathymyrus brachyrhynchus
partes glabra
polyatomic species
pool water
precision pressure gauge
profilin
pseudo-rational
q.suff.
quick off the mark
reddish podsol
relative soil moisture
rubber tapper
semi-reflecting mirror
sinus barotrauma
slaunwhite
Slonsk
sneak up on
stakeout
stationary knockout grid
steel rust removing
sulphur cauldron
sweitzer
tangential tool holder
Teng-chou
the grove of Academe
themus (themus) pallidipes
therapeutic(al) dose
tiendas
time-experience
topsin methyl-thiram wettable powder
torode
tracking radar
vasoligations
visual function
visual fusion
vo2
wheel tyres
Yemeni fils