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
alternate clause
Anodendron punctatum
apriona rugicollis
beet shed
Bjornanuten
bouabids
cast-in-place reinforced concrete slabs placed on steel decks
central pillar
chelyabinsks
common-and-garden
constant dollar plan
corneo-conjunctival
cruthing
dasyhelea taiwana
disesteem
encashment
ericius
Ethiopian architecture
excess in luxuries
fetally
FML (floating multiply)
gas lighting
genus charinas
geranylgeranyl
glutathionylation
god-emperor
hollow-bowl clarifier
Hope, Loch
hurrying along
hyper resolution
immune thrombocytopenic purpura
indeficiencies
indexing mechanism
industrial undertaking
Ipomoea coccinea
keystone corner
kilmartin
kirtz
knarrs
leave nothing to be desired
Lebachia
LLLTV
logic(al) function
low voltage arc
lowboys
magnesium sheet
magneto resistance material
mean mischief
methyl-2-benzimidazolecarbamate(fungicide)
metzlers
morus nigras
muscidifuraxes
narrowbodied
neutral-to-acid pulp
non existential
open to doubt
open vowel
optical reproducer
output variable name
oxyhydrogen gas monitoring
partaking of
pasocs
penetration rate
planeload
pleurozium schreberi
poly(P)
polylactosamine
print instruction
purplish-red
Rankin
rated short-time current
real sun
reconcile oneself to
Red Spot
resource structure
saccadic tracking movement
scag 2 , skag
shaft extension
sheill
shot soil
silphion
social tension
soft flesh
Space Shuttles
sparapet
stimulus response compatibility
stock cattle
storage input-output
subaqual landscape
subject directory
submicron resolution
Sunamganj District
Temboni
top blast
tyrosinuria
upbound tows
vocalis
volcanica
with a strong hand
X-chairs
yenshan granite
zizula hylax