时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. Memorial services are taking place today for some of the Virginia Tech students who died in Seung-Hui Cho's violent rampage. There was a day of mourning across Virginia for the victims yesterday. It included a moment of silence on the Virginia Tech campus at noon.


2. New photos of Fidel Castro. Pictures of the Cuban leader in meeting with the head of a visiting Chinese Communist Party delegation 1 are the latest sign that Castro is becoming increasingly active more than eight months after having emergency surgery.


3. In Huston, NASA officials are trying to figure out how a contractor 2 got past security with a pistol 3. William Phillips used the weapon to kill a co-worker before turning the gun on himself.


4. The dream trip into space is over for a billionaire software engineer who once won a junior cosmonaut contest. A Russian space capsule brought Charles Simonyi back to Earth today along with a Russian and an American who spent seven months in space.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. contractor : n-count
A contractor is a person or company that does work for other people or organization.


2. capsule: n-count
A space capsule is the part of a spacecraft in which people travel, and which often separates from the main rocket.



n.代表团;派遣
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
n.订约人,承包人,收缩肌
  • The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
  • The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样,有几分要看地势而定。
n.手枪
  • He drew his pistol and aimed at the enemy soldier.他拔出枪对准敌兵。
  • The escaped criminal fell at the sound of a pistol.手枪一响,逃犯应声倒下。
学英语单词
'Abdollāh
acetyl carbinol
Ad pond. om.
amplitude discrimination circuit
anapestics
antimyths
arab-israelis
atil
baby split
badiu
bake-outs
belly-flops
benzo(f)quinoline
billing clerk
binary system ceramics
birthparents
carbon dioxide fertilization
carcel unit
CAT criterion
Charcot-Marie-Tooth
charging coefficient
China green culture-medium
cisticola
civil air regulations (car)
Cladoidea
clearance to earth
cmhc
co-secretaries
computer input of korean characters
constant temperature and humidity
contract obligations
copyeditor
cornea ulcer
cotton-growing
cross question
cytotechnology
delsterol
Dhunaybah
displacement of brachial plexus
disturbance of nutrition by milk
diversity of polarization
drops the ball
drug addictions
duple
eisenbarth
electronic fingerprinting method
elliptic congruence
enologists
evaluation library
everything is ok
expansion of the product line
Forbes Air Force Base
formation of cystihepatoliths
full sesh
genus Boselaphus
graecisms
guarantee treaty
heat pump hybrid heating system
helodes
homolytic dissociation
hyophagus
Hypentelium nigricans
interconnect industry
internal void
interresponse time(irt)
Lilium papilliferum
lintol
look right through someone
make like
marketroid
method of successive elimination
metsulfuron-methyl
microsporozoite
nagging
non disjunction gate
north american english
one way logical channel incoming
over all dimension
paravenin
phoenikochroite (phoenicochroite)
plating of wear-resistant chromium
polyadenopathy
potassium iron(iii) tartrate
prunella modulariss
redevise
rhamnus carolinianuss
rhombuss
safe anchorage
Sankuru River
short-wavelength radiation
strikable
summiteers
TDF (two degrees of freedom)
thalamotomy
three-pipe water system
tie ins
to take the rap
traumatic ray tracheid
trema dielsiana hand.-mazz.
trimethyl-n-propyl-ammonium hydroxide
unwedges
water-butt