时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课

1. While campaigning in Indiana, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton again rejected calls to drop out of the race. In Pennsylvania, her rival Barack Obama took a harsh line about her claims of experience as First Lady.


 


2. British officials say American jets continue to be involved in the military operations near Basra. Officials say jets today dropped two precision-guided bombs on a suspected militia 1 stronghold north of the Iraqi city.


 


3. The truck driver involved a fiery 2 crash on a western Massachusetts interstate has died. The driver of the fuel tanker 3 swerved 4 to avoid a car and crashed into a guardrail. Interstate 91 was shut for hours as more than 10,000 gallons of fuel burned.


 


4. Sydney, Australia's icons 5 went dark for a night. The lights were turned off on the famed Sydney Opera House as well as the Harbour Bridge. The lights-out event is part of Earth Hour, an effort to call attention to climate change.



 


 



1 militia
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
2 fiery
adj.燃烧着的,火红的;暴躁的;激烈的
  • She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
  • His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。
3 tanker
n.油轮
  • The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
  • Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
4 swerved
v.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She swerved sharply to avoid a cyclist. 她猛地急转弯,以躲开一个骑自行车的人。
  • The driver has swerved on a sudden to avoid a file of geese. 为了躲避一队鹅,司机突然来个急转弯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 icons
n.偶像( icon的名词复数 );(计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的)符号,图像
  • Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下,后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
学英语单词
aggravated libel
aluminum-rare earth metal alloy
amain
amino compound
automatic transfer machine
batch initiation
bathing-suits
bone seeking alpha emitter
breeding crate
business efficiency guarantee
by product recoveries
candy raver
CETP
charter party assignment
chemical for the separation of ore
cobwebless
coconut shy
combined toxemia
coordinate bond
customer capital
deacetylates
delivered information
deracemizing
derived group
direct stimulus
diverting authority
double mechanical seal
drewitts
engineering cost
eurybaric
exchangeable form
expelling wind and clearing away cold
fading noise
failure pattern
fairy cup
fallen in
fire brand
food crops
fundamental system of neighborhoods
genitourinary apparatus
global filename character
go straight ahead
have a rouse
headache powder
hear a bird sing
hedychium gardenerianum wall.
husher
hutching
ick factors
instantaneous efficiency
Jorong
kuznets curve
levator muscle of upper eyelid
lilium canadenses
longterm potentiation
Maliseet
maxilloalveolar breadth
maxilloalveolar length
maximum hypothetical accident
minimum draught aft
modern optics
Montignies-le-Tilleul
mould duplicator
NECTARINIDAE
neeps
non fiction
oil washing
orchotomies
paladino
patent salt
Piobert effect
pitching force
polyglot programming
processor bound
scharlieb
scintillation-counter telescope
semienclosed
shipshape and Bristol fashion
significant wave height
sisi
skull cult
staircase signal
steps in decision-making
sternutatio
strategic warning lead time
tantiles
topographic feature
trespass to goods
tuyere line
unforegone
unitize
viscosity funnel
waldick
water-retentive
weld(ing) defect
wide dynamic range
withdrawal symptoms
wrap skirt
wristle
written testimony
Zimovniki