时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. Pakistani opposition 1 leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated 2 Thursday by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up. At least 20 others were also killed in the attack. Her death brings new chaos 3 in the nation that's an important US ally in the war on terror.


2. Police are reportedly investigating whether the young man mauled by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo taunted 4 the animal. The 300-pound animal was shot to death around closing time on Christmas Day after it attacked 3 men, killing 5 one.


3. In Washington State, detectives painstakingly 6 picked their way through this rural property where 6 family members were killed Christmas Eve. The property owner's daughter and boyfriend were arrested and are expected to appear in court Thursday afternoon.


4. Hotel magnate Barron Hilton plans to give the bulk of his nearly 2.5 billion dollar fortune to charity. The New York Post figures Barron's granddaughter Paris Hilton could have inherited 100 million, but now could collect only 5 million.



1 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
2 assassinated
v.暗杀( assassinate的过去式和过去分词 );中伤;诋毁;破坏
  • The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
  • Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后,肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句
3 chaos
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
4 taunted
嘲讽( taunt的过去式和过去分词 ); 嘲弄; 辱骂; 奚落
  • The other kids continually taunted him about his size. 其他孩子不断地耻笑他的个头儿。
  • Some of the girls taunted her about her weight. 有些女孩子笑她胖。
5 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。
学英语单词
a big noise
accident dosimetry
active hemorrhage
arrival list
azetidine
Barcones
be studious of
buoyancy frequency
business suit
Cabezarados
cagehousing
cephalic part of sympathetic system
colo(u)r purity
combined toxemia
comparative sociology
compile duration
conspicuous place
constant-entropy process
cooling rate of reactor
Criminal.
Cuc, R.
cushioned
cyclonic calcining system
death by poisoning
decussatio fontinalis
diazoates
direct current trigger
discriminating cut out
dollar-baseds
dwell mechanism
Eqlīd
examiner
Gambians
goodlooks
great rhododendron
guidance service
guinnessy
half-shift
head hand spring
heater mica plate
heavily-used
high amputation
homer armstrong thompsons
human experimentation
if filter
Iris confusa
ironworking
isobykangelical
jacket valve
lake keukas
lepidochlore (lepidochlorite)
libby
linear character
lusteth
macro pipelining
Makri(Fethiye)
maximum drilling depth
medical team
Metadelrioite
mid-seventies
muscles of lower limb
neurotic depression
nonrespirable
obturating thrombus
offshore unit
order Graminales
perforated board
picture theory
Plaindress.
plicae interdigitalis
Positive Displacement
pressed material
proliferative trichilemmoma
put-up job
Qu Qiubai
receipts and payment statemen
reengaging
saturated soil
seismic detector
semiannual compounding
shobas
sliver lay-in circular knitting machine
snatched at
standard units memory
stark naught
suborder Zygoptera
swindlings
talent-spotters
tricyclic antidepressant drugs
tube anemomete
two-dimensional memory
typhoid complicated with intestinal perforation
unexcused
unified interpretation
up-gradings
variable ratio relay
wake measurement
warping rigidity
winding positioning machine
wire lying machine
XTLO
Zyrian