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
2VD
a priori limitation
abreviate
Absaroka Range
anthracycline
arse-crack
artibeus
astrospectrograph
awardment
banzai attacks
biaxial optic normal
Blachia
bob-bling
breathing device
chloro-triammine platinous chloride
cilhorozdagi gecidi
clay puddle
clustering tendency
compensating starter
counterforts
crust-mantle differentiation
cryptocyanin
cyclamiretin
darkening wavelength
desert salt bed
DHTB
dictyla rasilis
dieretic
drawing board
ejector seat
electro-hardening
end hole
eyrer
figure-of-8 pessary
frisees
gabija
gallin,pyrogallophthalein
gantry crane with electric hoist
golden polypodies
Hammedatha
hand-punch
hashed symbol table
Hondelange
horse ranch
hyocaust
hypertensive drug
identi
interpolation sort
investment demand schedule
Keshan
Ko Un
lack experience
ligand
low level subway
mableton
manual following
maurus
mesh bulge
minister of foreign
mixed tissue
monitorially
natural radioactive elements
noncontroversial
noneditorial
nonswitching
Nycorast
order saprolegnialess
ozguc
parson's
pathetizes
payment on open account
Pegli
pipeline interferes with foundation
posting mecidm
procurement of items and services
radiation sensitive element
Rangoonese
reconning
recrystallization(-sation)
red corpuscles
reducing action
reef-knot
remete
reserve currency debtor
rousselet
safety related load
Sanegyt
secret dovetail joint
Skibotn
solid compound
Southern Star
sprayer simulator
stabilizator
steal thunder
strive after
sulfur (s) hydride complex
time reference signal
to log off
trichechus senegalensis
unhippocratic
unipapillary kidney
unlimited dollar financing