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
actual labor rate
adverbed
allegoriser
antioppression
apheretic
application for restoration
bank legislation
blackjack oak
blue-winged
boldhead
booststrap circuit
brown oil of vitriol (B.O.V.)
Bundela
C-scan
capital expenditure & current expenditure
carbon dioxide greenhouse effect
centripetal bar
Clematis fulvicoma
client server model
close in method
commitment-phobia
common control signal
curtated
Cururupu
cylindrically rotable design
deliver goods
engelmeyer
engineers hammer
equatorial monsoon
error of division
falintil
falsone
forward-transfer function
Gunzburg's reagent
hairbrained
head-tail instability
heterocerus grouvellei
Hirudinidae
immediatisms
incertain
Japanese blood fluke
Kapp method
Klenia
Legg's disease
linear cutoff
LTE-M
luo-diallogite
malignant tumor of lung
middleman of credit
minimum en route instrument altitude
morainic lake
morphogenetic pattern
mud bit
namespaced
negative list
noyment
nzinga
of one sort or another
panida
pentazine
phenolic fire-retardant paint
photonephograph
piratings
plaquettes
plastering sand
pottymouth
Preboreal
programmable robot
pulse air vibration
put in a good word
put their finger in their eye
raik
rapid decompression
Rathmelton
reader head
red-golds
redraft
relief valve (pneumatic)
roller system
Russianest
seaxes
side lobe
spikemosses
submarine scout
super-orders
Tamami
tangent circles
teratoneuromas
tertium comparationis
transcendental realism
transpeptidylation
turkistans
turtle-shells
union-screw coupling
vaginularia paradoxa mett.
Vibrio flavescens
vicariates
Virial coefficients
Wagrain
waldos
websense
zccf