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
amoeb(a)ean
anvil-block
audio visual instruction technique
available chlorine quantity
B-Dere
Baganian Pen.
benthonic realm
bill drawn payable to bearer
boarding passes
calibre ratio of combustion chamber
caserne
Celtis laevigata
ceratozamia
child orthopaedic operating table
cisanal setae
cluster radioactivity
co operative farm
consensus motif
cottontail
counter flow
cross terms
data inputting methodology
date of bill
degraded pulse
delayed reaction
diffuser lose
double-bass
electrode type salt-bath resistance furnace
extracutaneous
faded green
favo(u)rable terms
Fonatol
forced-draft boiler
foreign body in stomach
futuri
gas fuel supply system
graphic extension
greater doxology
ha(u)lm
hamline
heat sore
high-energy collision
hole diffusion length
holes for screw
homalia trichomanoides japonica
human rights record
humid limestone brown loam
hythergraph
individual account
intensity-time curve examination
inter-group communications
interfascicular nerve anastomosis
IRDS
laghter
mass extinction cross section
MCMOPS
mercerizing finish
micropsychoanalysis
neutralization reactions
nonreturn-to-zero change on one
Novesin
nyberg
oleyl nitrile
opaques
output storage
over-temperature
planar pivot four-bar mechanism
post-spawnings
primary org unit indicato
printed circuits
propaedeutic prospecting stage
pumping element spacing
reconstruction of facecontour
romancero
saint-mont
self-directedness
sequential logic equation
slop-pails
smoke-stop partition
snow removal
stack pointer register
stiff-tailed
stove bolts
strikingest
symmetrical anastigmat
tachykinin
tenpercentery
thick-voiced
Tiselius, Arne
to collect (lacquer or latex) by cutting into bark
top-most whorl of leaves
Trichoprosopon
ulcerative keratitis
ultrahigh frequencies
uniramian
User error
VDNA
veiling reflections
vernal equinox correction
Wellington, I.
yakety-yak
Yuanlin Township