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
'ey up
acanthomas
accessibleness
adenosin (A,Ado)
aeronautical meteorology
al abtiyah
area coefficient (nozzle)
atomic target acquisition
azidomorphine
backplane bus
bacterial bate
bean-pole
boot-boys
calanids
cane cutter planter
canonists
Carnot's solution
chamomillas
Chres
concurrent axis
conveyor drying
council of the stock exchange
darning needles
debris fall
defeasibleness
doctor for
EATX
endodontology
enforcement measure
expulsitive
fantastick
flew off the handle
French Louisiana
Gayutino
generalized potential
genus Chirocephalus
ghettoblaster
hearing trumpet
homozygosed
inknit
insect-repelling
kamyar
kernel function
Khilkotoy
kilomol
logrollings
long-wheelbases
lubricating oil distillate
magma igneous
main feed valve
metering characteristics of nozzle
mixed markov process
modes of infection
motor cab
mowry
mucoid
multi-r-f-channel transmitter
musculus obturator internus
Nartkala
Nervi perineales
nonmolestation
occipitotemporal branch
ore refining
oscillating function
over-readings
pacey
packing lashing
pedipalp
perforated iron ladle
performance bound
plow back earnings
poiyarthritis tuberculous
pontoon erection
positive endomorphism
power-off protection
preinvestment
provisional certificate of receipt of estate duty
restobar
rhesus factor
rod cluster control (RCC)
rotational speed sender
Schlotheim
seepage of dam foundation
shooting kit
sloven
slow storage
smoothing mill
Sturrock
submarine sediment
tax source
thrower belt conveyer
toll keeper
train annunciator
uk -legged
upward cell
utilitarian function
v.d.
vertical screw press
wee-weeing
woys
xanthagenate
zingeris