时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(四)月


英语课

1. Independent truckers from across the country called for a one-day strike to protest record high diesel 1 fuel prices. At the same time, Congress drilled top executives of the five biggest US oil companies about high profits. They also wanted to know why they are not investing in the development of other energy technologies.


 


2. The federal government says 17 of the nation's 50 largest cities don't graduate even half of their high school students. They found that 1.2 million high schoolers drop out each year. The government is also mandating 2 that states report dropouts in a uniform way.


 


3. President Bush is in Ukraine. He wants the former Soviet 3 Republic along with Georgia to become part of the NATO alliance. France and Germany have expressed concern the move could anger Russia.


 


4. A wayward gator made a mess of the morning rush hour near Fort Lauderdale Florida. Deputy shut down a busy road for about an hour while they waited for a wildlife worker to come and snare 4 the animal.





n.柴油发动机,内燃机
  • We experimented with diesel engines to drive the pumps.我们试着用柴油机来带动水泵。
  • My tractor operates on diesel oil.我的那台拖拉机用柴油开动。
托管(mandate的现在分词形式)
  • Current requirements mandating that committees keep minutes are too general. 目前对委员会要保持详细记录的指令性要求,还是太过一般化了。
  • Mandating that workers who quit without permission forfeit a month's wages. 规定工人私自离岗将受到罚没一个月工资的处罚。
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
n.陷阱,诱惑,圈套;(去除息肉或者肿瘤的)勒除器;响弦,小军鼓;vt.以陷阱捕获,诱惑
  • I used to snare small birds such as sparrows.我曾常用罗网捕捉麻雀等小鸟。
  • Most of the people realized that their scheme was simply a snare and a delusion.大多数人都认识到他们的诡计不过是一个骗人的圈套。
学英语单词
Achtrup
Akhtyrskiy
amount advanced
anchor log
basic cadmium chloride
bloopa
budget model
butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane
chromosome dosimetry
come-and-get-it
complementary trade
coupon-based supply
crane rigger
crevette
denaderise
dennisonite(davisonite)
diazo printing equipment
diffused inactive echoes
diver's log
endoderm cell
Eskandarī
ethrils
family gesneriaceaes
fanbelt
fault tolerant system
financial supervisor
fumarylacetoacetic acid
garit
gonadotropin inhibiting hormone
Grand Circuit
greenaugh microscope
grooved shed insulator
gun-play
gunned lining
habor boat
heat reactor
hexopentosan
hosetops
Idle, River
indirect arc furnace
inferior thyroid veins
insanitary
instrument-makings
intrayn
Kichmenga
legarreta
liquids temperature
lithozonations
Mach reflection
machine sensible information
magnetic-field meter
message center
microwave measurement
morbus interstitialis
moulids
muffleheads
mushing
nkisi
nonsociety
o.d.m
off the chart
oil fuse
ondarts
optional character
orthogneisses
oryzanin
Oxytropis microphylla
permissible commulative discharge of standard cell
pillowlike
pitched
pomwitzel (silesia)
progs
purely imaginary
putting out fires
research microscope
responsible director
sales deposit
satin finish glass
saving apparatus
semi-infinite ingot
skilful
sodium vapour
sognfjord
spatial discrimination
statement of service fee
street trader
Strix nebulosa
Sānkra
Talkhak
testing method
thermal ratchet
to rear livestock in pens or sties
tollutation
tri-tet (triode-tetrode)
UF (unavailable factor)
under review
underwater fire control system
uniaxial tension
wedge form pusher train
Windows Storage Server
word-form dyslexia
Yeastrel