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
abettal
ago
agricultural truck
amplification constant
anorthose (anorthoclase)
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
argiboroll
autophoresis
balance step
Barth Seamount
battle-hardened
bellum justum
blede
center of driving resistance
chreasters
chrothiomycin
circular genetic map
co operative commerce
conioscinella maculata
cost in use
cow grass
cox
Datooga
DC.) Stapf.
dethanizing column
dominium directum
dreap
drumlinoid
eat from
edged caption
electro refining
eurotech
exercise-induced
external carbon
fenixes
fictitious primary
field ditch system
file-cutters' disease
flotation of shares
fugacious leaf
global solutions
Grafenstein
groundednesses
group-size
gyro integrator
hooray for Hollywood
imitation wood
indefinite storage
inducing
inferoposterior
intention tremor
intraosseous needles
intrauterine fracture
irradiance responsivity
kohrs
licorice root
lie in a nutshell
linear thickness variation (ltv)
liquid-bath
Lloyd's Maritime Information Service
lochneram
lymphadenosis aleukaemia
methelate
microclimate condition
misbecame
naderi
nimby
normalizing parameter system
offenders in corruption
one on the city
ordinary quality
organo-silicon rubber
person of uncertain nationality
phalium bisulcatum japonica
pinetop-lakeside
precipitated bone
revision test
Rhaetinopsis
saurida
sea-fish
seizement
self-burying anchor
sheeting cap
Shepherd's Bush
show how
spent tan press
spirdleshaped
sufflates
superheat meter
superhigh
tabiner
temperature class
temperature regime
tilt angle of photograph
tobaccer
tungsten monophosphide
two-phase bubble assemblage model
undisturbed differential equation
water for fire-fighting
wormand gear
x-linked chronic granulomatous disease