时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(二)月


英语课

1. Hillary Clinton says she is heartsick at a motorcycle officer died in a crash this morning while escorting her motorcade. The Democratic Presidential hopeful plans to visit the fallen officier's family. The officier apparently 1 crashed into a concrete barrier near downtown Dallas.


 


2. A snowstorm is moving across the Northeast and it's worse than predicted. Up to ten inches of snow could fall in New York City. It's causing major airport delays and traffic snarls 2. And schools in Ohio and Connecticut closed.


 


3. A Minnesota woman faces charges in connection with a deadly school bus crash. Police say the driver of a van failed to stop at a stop sign Tuesday and slammed into a bus, killing 3 four students. Officials say the woman doesn't have a valid 4 license 5 and may be in the country illegally.


 


4. Our computer keyboard is about to be a thing of the past? Microsoft's Bill Gates predicts in the coming years computer users will interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards.


 



1 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
2 snarls
n.(动物的)龇牙低吼( snarl的名词复数 );愤怒叫嚷(声);咆哮(声);疼痛叫声v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的第三人称单数 );咆哮着说,厉声地说
  • I don't know why my hair snarls easily. 我不知道我的头发为什么容易缠结。 来自辞典例句
  • She combed the snarls out of her hair. 她把头发的乱结梳理通。 来自辞典例句
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
4 valid
adj.有确实根据的;有效的;正当的,合法的
  • His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
  • Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗?
5 license
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
学英语单词
accretion disk
acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (abs) copolymer
adjustable capacitor
admitted language admittivity
Aguilas
alkylate bottom
anaemial
anchored catalyst
ankleless
antiAIDS
as neat as a pin
automatic sample-counter
barayev
barthy
benzol-actone solvent
biocare
Bluetooth wireless
Brushvale
bve
calculating punch(er)
chordae venerea
contactsubstance
counterquestion
cupping test of metal
desand
dimethylacrylic aldehyde
draw-sheets
economic incentives
engine test
entity-dependent relational schema
epidural anesthesias
essay appraisal
exhaust-pipes
external oblique reflex
FABPs
financial planner
fishing buoy
francophonie
freight to be collected
fusion chemistry
ginseng renewal pill
glass insurance
home place
hydegy
interlopes
irre
japonica A. Gray Smilacina
kelly straightener
kennelled
magnetic tape drive
Marby
mesothecae
Mitchellsburg
moments of truth
mosaic fungus
N-(4-carboxyphenyl)retinamide
neonazi
nevado del ruiz
nonblocking service
nonpensionable supplements
nonrugged
nuclei of mammillary body
Oxytropis ochrantha
pedage
pierani
Ponka
poprocker
pot-shoot
propositional network model
quotation marks
rear axle bearing oil seal
retort pouch
Rhodiola telephioides
Rudlin
scoill
seminal vesiculotomy
sickle shaped
side-tipping wagon
ski
slide bearing housing
souths
speed-skiing
sponge-diver's disease
state - owned economy
stilnox
sublative case
Subtropical Mode Water
teleprompt
thallic acetate
tin whistle
to find fault with
triangulates
tuberculinotberapy
tunica propria of semicircular duct
two scale notation
unexcluding
vesifluyl
Veterans Day
vstore
xerocomus subtomentosus
yarmouth interglacial period