时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(一月)


英语课

1. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao are promising 1 closer cooperation on issues ranging from trade to the fight against terrorism. But at a joint 2 White House news conference Wednesday, the two did not narrow their division on human rights issues.


 


2. An abortion 3 doctor in Philadelphia is being charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies. Prosecutors 4 say the babies were born alive, and then killed with scissors.


 


3. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has confirmed he will retire next year. The decision ends a career in which Lieberman became his party's vice 5 presidential nominee 6 but six years later ran as an independent after losing the Democratic primary.


 


4. The hunt by Tiger Woods for a tournament title will resume next week in San Diego. That'll be his first tournament of 2011. He hasn't won on tour since back in 2009, just before his sex scandal erupted.



1 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
2 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
3 abortion
n.流产,堕胎
  • She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
  • A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
4 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
5 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
6 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
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alper
amount of hog
appreciably
autoscopic hallucination
baled cargo
bandage winder
banded coal
bltn.
bracket bracing
brittle materials tensile-strength tester
Calydonian hunt
Camellia State
cinemaphotography
closing direction
constant percentage growth
coolings-off
day correction
Decoction of Seven Valuable Drugs for Malaria
desert crossing
desmoulins
dibenzofurans
east kildonan
ferdinand von zeppelin
fieldname
fixed coil indicator
flywire
fortazs
frontstern tube
function preventing fault
furtherance of offence
gas generator mixture ratio
geezerhood
geocentric horizon
glassmakings
gross production efficiency
gymnothorax pseudothyrsoideus
haplogroups
homeozoic
horrified
horvats
it's not you, it's me
Jominy test
keyway gage
lactacystin
last-minute
lelawi
Ligamentum vocale
lines of descent
love-handled
loxygen
MAC (message authentication code)
made an exhibition of yourself
mechanical ground
metatrochus
monthly agrometeorological bulletin
new things
Notoscyphus
obtain a footing
official petitioner
oscillating mechanism
palpation of neck
patience is a plaster for all sores
perri
petal-like
polybrominated
pop off the hooks
Pottsia laxiflora
preavailing rate
preteritary volcanic rocks
propeller-water turbine
pullis
quintoms
replenishers
rotary drive shaft
run under
runway visibility
salpingo-ovariectomy
scintiphotograp
scrubbird
sequence utterance
set our cat at
shallow hoisting
signal azimuth display
significatively
skeletonises
sliding shutter
spipot and socket cast iron pipe
spray mixer
stochastic term
stress reduction factor
tertre
the ratio of obstruction
tokening
Tuberculum ossis scaphoidei
tying-in
Ulpian
untalalog
vaskene
vena pharyngeuss
venus foveolata
work ... off
zarnow