时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2014(十一)月


英语课

 1. Senate Republicans are vowing 1 to thwart 2 President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration which he will announce tonight in a primetime address. Minority leader, Mitch McConnell says once Republicans are seated as the majority in both Houses next year, Congress will act to stop Obama’s plan.


 
2. The gunman in a shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee was an alumnus and an attorney. Myron May worked for the District Attorney’s office in Las Cruces New Mexico. He shot and wounded 3 people in the campus library before being killed by police.
 
3. Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protestors in an east Jerusalem neighbourhood Thursday. Road blocks were set up following a spike 3 and deadly violence. The move angered Palestine residents. Jewish residents say they fear for their safety.
 
4. And the good news for Thanksgiving travellers is the price of gas is at the 5-year lows. The bad news, a lot more people will hit the road. AAA estimates 46.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more for the holiday weekend.

1 vowing
起誓,发誓(vow的现在分词形式)
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。
2 thwart
v.阻挠,妨碍,反对;adj.横(断的)
  • We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
  • I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。
3 spike
n.长钉,钉鞋;v.以大钉钉牢,使...失效
  • The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
  • They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。
学英语单词
acetamiprid
actinias
afterchrome method
alzenaus
amlette
aortic valve disease
arsenobenzol
articular gout
Astreus
astronomic coordinate system
backers-up
basket trading
bead heel
blaze the path
bondes
bookbus
breach of warranty of authority
cast pearl before swine
chemical waste water
cimicifuga acerina c. tanaka
Cloonkeen
corporate system
cubic capacity of lifeboat
depps
dioptric lighting
dnmt
dryxo (cyphops) fasciata
fall-throughs
falsified account
forend
hiring freezes
innermore
invert gate
Jarawa
joc-
jofre
Koryazhma
KouTai
LATRIX (light accessible transistor matrix)
Ligularia kangtingensis
long-chord winding
majorant
mid-sternal incision
moldingplane
mountain goat
multiwire strand
need for confidentiality
nikolaiviertel
nilpotent analytic group
noob tube
Nābū'ā
ogl
order for arrest
outworks
oxyarsenides
photo-op
piophilids
pitchwomen
playcentres
positional flow method
power system problems
pratyeka
premium member
pressureproof television camera
pseudo-Christian
put the moves on
RA-AC
raulston
relativamente
relative extreme value
ridolfi
rokui
rootserver
Rugāji
Rust's disease
schriber
Shluh
social assistance statistics
Solesia
soulbury
source scanning
spindle-hairs
standard uncertainty
steatogenous
steatoid
stomiid
SYM (symmetrical system)
taubada
temperature-sensing element
tentative report
Thornton Castle
Tranφy
treatment conditions
upper lever
utias
w.m.
water release
weight percent concentration
well-delivered
window display
yeoman usher of the black rod
Zariski space