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
advisees
alnasr
alpha activation
aluring
appropriatin'
away from the point
aweld
bacterial invasion
biurny
block-gauge
boogying
breaking plane
brightness pulse
caapi
chamomile tea
chopped lightning impulse
combined gas and steam turbine
crocidolite deposit
cryptopolyploidy
danger voltage
direct arc plasma torch
dividers method
downy mildews
ecothiopate iodide
elastic clamp
elementary probability
Erymanthian
Eurynome
evergreen huckleberries
extension furnace
Fixed asset losses in suspense
forest working plan
French kissed
gastrochaena cuneiformis
geely
genus ananass
gummatous syphilide
haulier
height control valve
hepatic tanager
hits a home run
Hyllestad
imbargo
inexpugnably
inquisitor angustus
interior distribution
Isalon
Keffi
laugh ... out of
leased-out equipment
lever engines
louver door
machine infinitesimal
made a check against
martensites
mean power
memorialize
Menonist
metal complex dye
multidimensional optimal control
nitrogenous waste
non-resident resource
non-standard structural element
Nonfill
orbital abscess
out of measure
phenol glue
phycophacin
Piaca
pink gins
Pitarpunga L.
polyhexanide
Proof Of Service
psychergograph
pyrrosia matsudai tagawa
radio-quiet
Revlon mode
rudder moment
scopolamine hydrobromide
secondary spine
security assistance program
Sefiat
sering
serous acinus
sisterspeak
softening (of water)
solid solution alloy system
suntrap
swell-butted
tabacosis pulmonum
theoretical anthropology
theory of humus nutrition
tracking direction
tramp on the gas
transtilla
trigonometopus deceptor
variance-ratio transformation
velocity pressure
Virchow-Holder angle
wamu
without contrast
zero-point energy