时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月


英语课

1.As expected, the federal budget deficit 1 is climbing skyward. It’s hit 765 billion dollars in just the first five months of the fiscal 2 year and it’s well on its way to the administration’s projection 3 of 1.75 trillion for the whole year. The blame goes to a slump 4 in tax revenue, and a surge in spending on the bank bailout.


2.In Alabama, investigators 5 haven’t been able to figure out what triggered the gunman’s rampage that left 11 dead including his mother and himself. But officials said 28-year-old Michael McClendon had a list of those “who’d done him wrong.”


3.Tonight’s rescheduled launch of the space shuttle Discovery has been delayed yet again, this time because of a hydrogen leak. NASA hopes to get the mission to the space station underway tomorrow night.


4.Chris Brown withdrew from the Kid’s Choice Awards. The embattled pop star, who was arrested for allegedly attacking his girlfriend Rihanna, was up for two awards.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1.skyward: adv.


up into the sky or towards the sky


2.projection: n.


a statement or calculation about what something will be in the future or was in the past, based on information available now


3.hydrogen: n.


a colourless gas that is the lightest of all gases, forms water when it combines with oxygen


4.be up for: phrase


when you are up for an award, you are one of the nominees 6.



n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
adj.财政的,会计的,国库的,国库岁入的
  • The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
  • The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。
n.发射,计划,突出部分
  • Projection takes place with a minimum of awareness or conscious control.投射在最少的知觉或意识控制下发生。
  • The projection of increases in number of house-holds is correct.对户数增加的推算是正确的。
n.暴跌,意气消沉,(土地)下沉;vi.猛然掉落,坍塌,大幅度下跌
  • She is in a slump in her career.她处在事业的低谷。
  • Economists are forecasting a slump.经济学家们预言将发生经济衰退。
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.被提名者,被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )
  • She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
  • A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网
学英语单词
absolute thermal efficiency
acid ionization constant
active star
affirmed without opinion
allotropic, allotropical
ambush bug
antiaggregatory
bad colour
bimatrices
bind(ing)
blast-barner
cake knife
carecloth
ceramic coated particle
charge transfer
cheat the journey
Chorispora sibirica
chromatic concord
combination drop-down edit
coorse
corrections for abruptness
credit receiver
Cuban oreganos
CWR (chilled water circuit)
Cyclodol
dangling bond band
death mask
Deyeuxia sikangensis
dipodic
ear piercing
electrocolorimetry
encrypted message part
entrance of elevator
evaluation and controlling by results
even more
flaws in performance
formal garden style
fuel levels
gaussian randomprocess
globular anemia
grewe
handmake
hayrigs
heat emission in radioactive decay
heat sink compound
hyperjump
i samuels
identification section
in an unguarded moment
invidiousnesses
jet fan
junior beam
kazaronovski
Las Negras
legitimate private property
liquidationists
long Bologna sausage
mana screw
membrana fusca
metaphire trutina
minibulker
mixing tube
mmfr
n. cutaneus femoris lateralis
near-human
nickel iron storage battery
non-isochromous
nonchlorinated
NSC-140117
overfrequency protection
overmatched
page device descriptor table
parameter region
patrial
pay-or-play
Poa roemeri
policy wonk
predicted starting and finishing dates
process working space
qualitative response
RAD (rapid access device)
Rajasthan Steppe
Ramam effect
Rebekah
regular surface element
runtime support library
saucer shaped wheel
scraper-loader
septicaemic colibacillosis
snap-action pressure switch
solar reflectance
squid liver oil
stabilization of frequency
sternine
sub-vassal
Sumon-dake
Syringa pubescens
Tetmajer
thermogenesis
tricksical
typholysin
vb.