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
a freak of nature
age heaping
aggregate use-values
alsene
amphibious tracked carrier
analog multiplier
andrite
barkovsky
basal corpuscle
Bedivere
Boito, Arrigo
bomogenotization
bulrush millets
charged particle excited x-ray fluorescence spectrometry
colony counters
common ringlets
competitive crops
contour sheet
corpora delicti
craaled
crista terminalis
dehumanizings
Dicyema
direct coupled machine
dollmakers
electrode carrying superstructure
enation
exponential mapping
final laying
Fludd, Robert
friend leukemia virus (fr-mlv)
ganoid fish
garys
geochronic
giddleman
give someone to understand
glyoxalases
grouseward
haberdashery stores
hand-axes
handle bar bolt
Hatteras Abyssal Plain
Holley, Robert William
Hydroxybutirosin
infinite-dimensional real projective space
ionization screen
istrian peninsula
keyholed
kilowatt-day
land of the golden fleece
left splicing junction
liability insurance
linking loader executive
lucie-smith
make a show of ourselves
Manaus
Mollā Yusof
multi-ram forging die
neoxanthops quadrilobatus
noncartilaginous
north tropic
not a stitch to one's back
open jet non-return flow tunnel
otitis media purulenta chronica
outpitches
pohers
post-communism
postemigration
predoom
pressing direction
prowl cars
quinquefoliolate
railroad platform
reform through
reliability design approach
right lateral lobe
salinises
Sandend
serpentine asbestos
show sb. the door
single squirrel cage rotor
single tube daylight
sperm-binding
spicspeak
state-economy
step sector
stratified fluid
subb
synchronous rectifier
the Beaufort scale
top-secret
transvase
Tully monster
undissimulated
Uvarovskiy Rayon
vaccum dyeing apparatus
vacuum tube modulator
weld residual stress
whisky heart chocolate
with one voice
wolf
woodman