时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2014(三)月


英语课

 1. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says some recent economic figures have pointed 1 to weaker consumer spending than had been expected, but maybe it was just due to the wicked winter across much of the country. The Federal will keep an eye on that. 


 
2. The White House is welcoming efforts by Ukraine’s parliament to stabilize 2 the country. Press Secretary Jay Carney says ousted 3 President Viktor Yanukovich abdicated 4 his responsibility. 
 
3. Those Nutrition Facts labels on nearly every food package in grocery stories are getting a new look, calories will be in larger bolder type and consumers would know whether foods have added sugars under proposed changes. Serving size would also be updated. 
 
4. Three Asianic lion cubs 5 are making their debut 6 at a zoo in eastern France, raising slim hopes for one of the world’s rarest species. They didn’t announce the December 31st birth until this week, afraid the cubs might not survive.

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。
vt.(使)稳定,使稳固,使稳定平衡;vi.稳定
  • They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
  • His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺
  • He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
  • He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。
放弃(职责、权力等)( abdicate的过去式和过去分词 ); 退位,逊位
  • He abdicated in favour of his son. 他把王位让给了儿子。
  • King Edward Ⅷ abdicated in 1936 to marry a commoner. 国王爱德华八世于1936年退位与一个平民结婚。
n.幼小的兽,不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )
  • a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
  • Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
学英语单词
acclimazation
active desktop
adrenergic drugs
angiosenic
Anglo Celtic
anthryl
antrodynia
automatic calling unit
Bacterium dispar
bangoura
base isolation
boundary layer separation loss
branch house
bullet jacket
Camden County
cediopsylla simplex
cholecystographies
closened
cold abscess of joint
conditionalisation
coruscation
cucumovirus cucumber mosaic virus
culpeo
Davis Sill
delayed item
deoxidisers
discontinuous filter
elkhorn ferns
executed treaty
exit macroinstruction
filtrable bacteria
flat organization
g.o
Game Boy
gang process chart
gartland
gas-law constant
geomagnetic tide
grand justice
great whole cooperative society
gully control engineering works
haemoalkalimeter
half-symmtric unstable resonator
Hamilton, Alice
hardware controller
heptarchic
Insorae
jebels
Kareeberge
lanum
lead dichromate
length of arc
length of plateau
local isomorphism
Mallig
Mbouda
melolontha insulana
misaffirmed
mistier
molybdofornacite
motor alkylate
Mtima
nested parentheses
nietzsches
nonmigratable
one-dimensional manifold
output order
outstay your welcome
oversize fraction
particle or chip board
peripatus
Perisporineae
photon engine
piedmont stairway
piezoelectric monitor
post mold
quasimoney
Racale
rear one's head
reference check
retrojecting
reversible domain wall diaplacement
scorbutigenic
senior managing director
sentimentalize
sieve cover cleaning mechanism
smoke-jump
social integration
speech limiter
spoil disposal
tandem moor
taneys
tau-value
texturized
the devil to pay
true profit
undergauge
vizcachas
whereness
with flying colours
word underline