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
1-methylphenanthrene
abrupt junction
administrator ad colligendum
age class
alternating axis of symmetry
anisotropic liquid
ansine
Anten
anti-G-valve
argument handing
BNC connectors
boot name
boxable
cavalier
centrifugul force
cerebromedullary tube
claribellas
coastguardman
cock fender
condensing rings
cone and jet cement mixer with hopper
customary system
decompression drainage
diarylchroman
double-direction thrust bearing
downgoing slab
dynamic strain optical coefficient
east african community
evaluating alterative course
felinine
flap aileron
functional union
genus tachypleuss
Ghinea
glaphylopteridopsis elubescens (wall.)ching
harbergery
harold lloyds
highly efficient regeneration
hinderland
Houtave
hybrid telescope
hydraulic directional valve
hydraulic traversing oil reservoir
initiating station
ink droplet
insured's employee id
James City County
jumplists
just claim
keep consort
kite-ascent
Kochumdek
left-handed vessel
lesser duty
light station
light wine
liriope graminifolia bak. var. variegata makino
macrocytotic
meditation
medium titre
message-sendings
microbit drilling test
mobile coronary care
motion picture pickup
mutilids
n-methyl-n-amylnitrosamine
NACP
natural moisturizing factor
nickel complex
nocturnalism
one-of
oxidation plating
paper_ranges
paralytic beriberi
particle tract
permanent heterozygote
pot-smokings
pushdown transformer
radiocontrast medium
regular enantiomorphy
revalue (revaluate)
roast-and-reaction process
service adapter
snagline
starter gear rim
Staurogyne stenophylla
stayton
stray mark
stretch for the impossible
submit payment for the land
tape perforating
Tel-E-Pack
thermocouple thermometre
trapezohedral tetartohedron
trippin' balls
trophic center
turn it up
umbrellaless
underministers
urogravimeter
water-carriage
yukked