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 gate
abylopsis eschscholtzi
academic integration
acid aminuria
across-the-street
Aldeanueva de Figueroa
amoss
anchor flags
anterior commissurotomy
arched timbering
area of thrust surface
as jolly as a sand boy
astronics (astrionics)
Bagazan
bauger
be resentful of
best described
bimbiosterol
blowoff-pipe
BRFFI
british saddleback swine
cariniform
carinoes
Cephalobidae
Charlton Heston
CHEILOBRANCHIDAE
cholecystograms
chop mark
chrysophile
come out in the wash
computer-aided engineering
construction team
cozenage
current base
damarus
dihydropyran
discrete choice analysis
ecological physiology of plant
Eriobotrya seguinii
extracting tool
general planning
generic subprogram instantiation
gniditrin
gonyautoxins
governance model
gravity feed oil
gravity fold
grzywnas
hanging rail
heavy slash
high voltage alternating current arc
hormonopoiesis
huffstutler
illegal disposition
included inversion
information-integrated
james abbott mcneill whistlers
Kamenistaya, Gora
lathc
limit path
mais
major beam
meagrer
mold discharging agent
monkey-no-climb
mucofibrous
Myrviken
nonfragmenting projectile
normal polarity
onel
organicity
ovulist
palpation and pulse taking
paradoxa
phase distorting filter
plouviez
post-absorptive state
prespecifying
proctoclysis
pronounce for
rachenitza (bulgaria)
rest for overcoming fatigue
shrunk finish
signal register power source
Singspiele
Stellaria palustris
subprocessor
supermirror
synchronizing message request
szechuan movement
thermoformability
to get cracking
toplines
transverse shear
tricorchidism
uniform temperature region
valid obligation
view of frankpledge
wadcutters
wayang
Western Equatoria State
wristwatch radio