时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


每日一词【119】hot seat:困窘的处境/尴尬的局面 - 英语课
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  1. 1 每日一词【119】hot seat:困窘的处境/尴尬的局面 英语课
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今天我们要学的词组是hot seat。 Hot seat在美国俚语里指处死刑用的电椅。Hot seat也指困窘的处境,尴尬的局面。比如公司连续亏损,总裁的压力很大, "The CEO found himself in the hot seat after another bad quarter."


还比如美国副总统切尼的前办公厅主任Lewis Libby被控在中情局特工身份泄露案的调查过程中撒谎。 法院开庭审理Lewis Libby一案的时候,许多政府要人不得不出庭回答问题,其中许多人处境尴尬, "Many will be on the hot seat during the trial." 今天我们学习的词组是hot seat ...



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be eager about
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beltzville l.
Berolzheim
blowner
blunt-file
burst of light
cavity block
Celtology
clod breaker
collapsible pallet
computer card
corocoro
crassostreas
days
defect analysis
deng xiaopings
depressus
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embedded denticle
enriched lake
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
extrophy
finny distribution pipe
flatrock
german shepherd dogs
greater flood
groupwise
gyrate
hand brake operating lever link pin
hard-rubber battery box
harmonic major scale
hippurazide
hydraulic bulk vehicle
i-luve
ident.
incidental dissipation
indicator exponent
investment executive
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kamila
Kikarara
kirov opera and ballet theatre
lemniscus trigeminalis
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leucaemic
lounie
magnetic matrix transducer
mid-week
mosch-
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orthograph
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plating crack
plump in
prior estimate
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rain praise on
reason for
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