时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2013(八月)


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 Bradley Manning, the soldier sentenced to 35 years for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks, now says he wants to live as a woman. Manning issued a statement saying he wants to be known as Chelsea and begin hormone 1 treatment as soon as possible.


 
In Syria, government forces ? with military offensive a day after activists 2 claimed more than 100 people were killed in a chemical weapons attack. One human rights group counted three air raids within five minutes in the suburb surround Damascus.
 
President Obama is pushing for a new rating system for colleges. ? will be judged based on their affordability 3 in addition to their academic programs. If approved, the new ranking system would be used in distributing financial aids.
 
In Kentucky, the state ? ham has sold for a whooping 4 350,000 dollars at auction 5. Charity event is a part of the annual state fair.

1 hormone
n.荷尔蒙,激素,内分泌
  • Hormone implants are used as growth boosters.激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。
  • This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body.这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
2 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 affordability
可购性
  • Performance-Based Logistics Affordability: Can We Afford Categorical Conversion to Performance-Based Acquisition? 基于性能的后期的可承受性:能否担负得起向基于性能的采办的无条件的转变?
  • There would be no crisis of affordability, as't for food or clothing. 就想食物与服装一样,因为供给没有危机。
4 whooping
发嗬嗬声的,发咳声的
  • Whooping cough is very prevalent just now. 百日咳正在广泛流行。
  • Have you had your child vaccinated against whooping cough? 你给你的孩子打过百日咳疫苗了吗?
5 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
学英语单词
Acronychia
AFG
al-qasim
as safe as the Bank of England
Atk, Wādī al
azimuth angle coupling unit
bacillus albicans pateriformis
black as my hat
blood-letting
blowing system of ventilation
borethyl
case-number
chenu
church-growth
clerodendroside
confirmation of receipt
cowanis
crucifer black rot
decimal alignment
defecate
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
dentine formation
dermatitis due to hydrocarbon
die in the ass
discerning method
dishes
Dow-Jones
dry certificate
Dundgovǐ Aymag
E.-C. mixture
ectron
edentia
euonymins
factor of a polynomial
fluid transmission
forced-circulating reboiler
genus gleichenias
get undressed
gray strata dial
Gullabo
hair transplant
hard sauces
hastated
husbander
hydraulic traversing electric motor
hydrochloride chinacrine
i-tried
in proud array
inductive character
injection hotspot
isotetrandrine
landed societies
lenticular ore (liroconite)
Ligusticum elatum
Lisrodden
locked-rotor impedance characteristic
love offair
make sb yawn
mapper
Marie Goeppert Mayer
mariposite-2m (chromian phengite)
mesometeorologists
meteorological weapon
multi-head welder
non-linear gain
number of range samples
Ophiosporella
ordinal power
phomopsis fukushii endo et tanaka
photostimulated ionization
phycophyta
plain head lock nut
population bottleneck
prisoness
Qallīn
Ramus communicans cum nervo auriculotemporali
recover damages
respiratory inhibitor
SEF-1
shield-hand
shopbop.com
shove-board
shuls
single-shell casing
sir alexander robertus todds
specialized-news paper
squatted
Strigeoidea
team match
temperature acclimation
tentily
test loop
tramp steamers
tri-mode
Ulstrup
Vaas
vaguish
virtual focus
vowed
xyleutes strix formosicola
xylo-marimbas
zygomatici