时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(三月)


英语课

[1] The head of Toyota is apologizing to the American people for safety lapses 1 that led to a number of deaths and widespread recalls. Akio Toyota appeared Wednesday before Congress where he also disputed claims that electronics were to blame for the cars' woes 2


 


[2] The teacher who tackled a gunman at a Colorado middle school is lamenting 3 that he didn't act soon enough. Two people were shot and injured in the incident. Bond for the suspect has been set at a million dollars. 


 


[3] The Senate has passed a 35-billion-dollar jobs bill it hopes will get the economy on track. The bipartisan measure gives businesses tax cuts and 1,000-dollar credit when they hire the unemployed 4


 


[4] A snowboarder is lucky to be alive after he was caught in an avalanche 5. The man was able to recall his ordeal 6 as he snowboarded and slid through at all. He also says the snow itself pushed him away from the rocks.   


 



n.失误,过失( lapse的名词复数 );小毛病;行为失检;偏离正道v.退步( lapse的第三人称单数 );陷入;倒退;丧失
  • He sometimes lapses from good behavior. 他有时行为失检。 来自辞典例句
  • He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. 他可以宽恕突然发作的歇斯底里,惊慌失措,恶劣的莫名其妙的动作,各种各样的失误。 来自辞典例句
困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉
  • Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
  • She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
adj.悲伤的,悲哀的v.(为…)哀悼,痛哭,悲伤( lament的现在分词 )
  • Katydids were lamenting fall's approach. 蝈蝈儿正为秋天临近而哀鸣。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Lamenting because the papers hadn't been destroyed and the money kept. 她正在吃后悔药呢,后悔自己没有毁了那张字条,把钱昧下来! 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡
adj.失业的,没有工作的;未动用的,闲置的
  • There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
  • The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。
n.雪崩,大量涌来
  • They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。
  • Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。
n.苦难经历,(尤指对品格、耐力的)严峻考验
  • She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
  • Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。
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学英语单词
acknowledgement of claim
adoption service
ambient
amino-formaldehyde resin
Auby
bezymiannies
bibliographic utility
bioregenerative system
blaize
butterfly adrenal
capsular substance
castelgandolfoes
catherineofaragon
central electronics unit
chinese-room
colo(u)r fastness to organic solvents
contusion of penis
courtage
dataflexes
depth of hardening
Diocto-K
disc refiner
dissolved bones
dnq
donor-country
double ported slide valve
echo-boom
emplored
endue
error-distribution code
facility library
finemesh
first-daiest
foam drilling fluid
galkhaite
general equivalency diploma
giant taroes
halogenated compounds
hay liner
helminthocladia australis
high strength and high modulus fiber
homorogen
hysterectomising
hysteresis property
immunological equivalence
in cipher
incomplete abortion
independent variable depth sonar
induration
infrared reflection-absorption spectrometry
is another matter
it is important
iver
joint float
Kimamba
knuckle-tooth
lack substance
Lasche value
Livry
long card grinding roller
luteum
mast gauge
morvens
motorically
myoclonic encephalopathy of infant
night game
non-ascript
octaphyllite(trioctahedral)
old norses
pancreozymin
phentetiothalein
pictorializing
pitch opal
placentophagy
plantarly
plastic TL detector
plow planer
Pontius
Poor Knights Is.
rosenzweigs
sarajane
Schlieren mirror
shell zone
smelties
solidified jet testing
spiral sluice
spring guide plate
St-Gein
stool-work
Stylidiaceae
transferrals
travoy
tunicae submucosa
ultra-soft ray
uncooled reactor
unimmergible
unit-costs
unsaturated coefficient
viola canadenses
weaner
weekly statement
well-house