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
achieve an agreement
acoustic (echo) sounding
acranial
albornoz
appraisal value
autoflash
autophosphorylating
baker's percentage
bull-dose
bus routes
cancel an appointment
capryl-
Cesme
chart fills
circulating real capital
classification of viruses
CORBICULIDA
Damāt
departure speed
disintegration of measure
double precision hardware
dresser-rand
dried casings
educational therapy
exterior division
extreme low water
family Mantidae
feijoa bushes
field-swept
film-forming molecule
fission (fragment) particle
freon refrigeration
front and center
G 7
Gauss differential equation
geobiotic realm
goldeneyes
good humors
green syrup
guignardia juglandis sydow ethary
harpy-eagle
heat engineering
Hitchcock Heights
hoofiness
horse chestnut
how can you!
hu ya ch'ieh yeh
impact mill
inbred linecross
incardinations
INSET day
jembrana punctipennis
keel depth
ketoles
kilo-calorie
leech-like
Lutetia Parisiorum
magdolo
main thrust
marginal reserves
market-house
masking threshold
megabar
multiple-document interface
myelin staining
narrowbeam
nonresonant line
nonrodents
oil return tank
order accumulation
out-of-balance voltage
overland common point
pan-en-deist
persistence forecasting
phosphonate
plant shoot
PLOP-hashing
policy advocate
potassium hexafluorosilinate
purchase rebates and allowances
rammed earth wall
responsibility system for production
shionane
silicone elastomer seal ring
Smilax vanchingshanensis
spectacle band
stealage
stocked with
summer-time
swabstick
system evolution
T3-euthyroidism
targeted killings
time compression multiplex
turtle shell glaze
uncracking
unhexed
vapo(u)r volume
vetch management
wars of the league of augsburg
weatherlike
wing fillet