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
a baptism of fire
A-bracket
acceleration stage
additional collateral
all-optic communication network
Amati Family
anatomic(al)
angle recoprocating compressor
antipreferential
antisurgical
befreed
board-level
bobbin bit
Boitzmann superposition principle
break of load
cadmium mercury
caffers
canine tooth
chun purple
CL leads
colliquative softe
colonial preferential duty
completely linear metric space
concertina fold
confined charge
cooperating agency
cunned
cut-out pedal
daily wagon requisition plan
decision support systems
decohering
demonomancy
Dischidia tonkinensis
dismiss
double-benched
emergency chiller
erysiphaless
federal type of cooperative
ferric trichloride
field of plane on manifold
foreign substance
fractional entitlements
fuze action
gourd vegetable
hadera
Harbour Dues on Cargo
Horace Greeley
hot insulation resistance
hunter/killer operations
intrical
lateral secretion theory
Logan slabbing machine
Malechowo
malony
mass game
merlis
metal hot dipping
monosomatic
Nahnsen zinc process
neboes
new-land
nightcaps
offshore navigation
overconsumes
papill? renales
photoconductive lag
phss
plain fixing bath
platinized
politics of cooptation
popelote
popych
print drier
proboscideous
protein denaturation
pulse-type transducer
rail bonding drill
retroduodenal fossae
ring type joint face flanged
saframycin
scal-of-two multivibrator
schlager
self-chambering
shatter index
silicates
sisleys
sleeper coach
sliding stay
software reconfiguration
sort work file
spark polishing
special privilege
sulphamidic acid
sure bet
sweating out
tag-question
terms of an agreement
the virgins
ventilating coaming
VIp-36
vomitoxin
wagon-head