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
acid electrode
acoustic effect
afforestation
angitrit
annidation(ludwig 1948)
anserine reaction
application transaction program
Arundinaria amabilis
ask for a leave
atmospheric radio wave
back timing
Ban Yang Yong
Bantayan
body-building
borrower lender relationship
Brethren in Christ
by lease
cane bundler
capital messuage
cell-killing
chaum
checking sum
common utility
differentiable knot
dilatometric effeCt
diploparthenogenesis
dissuasions
double sling
drafting force
education for the elderly
electroacupuncture
false pimpernels
fencamine
frequency comparator
Goleszów
gpf (gross peaking factor)
graphite limiter
hammam
high pressure surge
Holophane
home supervision
hooked plate
hot wall
import-substitution strategy
influencing variable
isochronization
Kinmuck
Koester magnet steel
Kvashninskoye
kwilu (cuilo)
lagavulins
latent group
makes much account of
marahau
Massoretic
Mesogicea
Miniconjou
Nephronex
oligoelement
on pension
Oppenheim, E(dward) Phillips
order processing menu
outside window glass door
Park Gate
Phalaenopsis amabilis Bl.
phoney
pilot operated control
platform auger
point-wise
poststorm
primary stipe
printed electronic circuits
recording film plane
rigours
roadbuilders
safety classification
semifinished nut
servo-valve
she'd've
singing bowls
Socialist Labor Party
solasonidinee
stack gas monitor
stellaris
sterile distilled water
stoppage period
stretch-proof
subsidized loan
Systems Programming Language
Tha Song Yang
tranquilization
trans-interchange
Tuchow
tunnell
uncontrollableness
undervoltage device
vertical machining centre
vinegar stock
vision mixing system
volume curve method
wortworm
year round