时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课

American airlines canceled about 200 flights today for inspections 1. Officials say the planes would return to service after crews check some wire bonders on the aircraft. It came after an order by a joint 2 \ of inspectors 3 by the FAA and the airline itself.


 


New home sales fell in February for the fourth street month after pushing activities down to a 13-year low as the s\ slum continues. That claim was sliding worse than had been expected.


 


A longtime Hollywood actor who often portrayed 4 killers 5, corpse 6 and western gunslingers was dead. Richard Wildmark died at his Connecticut home at the age of 93. Wildmark received the best supporting nomination 7 for \ 1947 role in "Kiss of Death".


 



1 inspections
n.检查( inspection的名词复数 );检验;视察;检阅
  • Regular inspections are carried out at the prison. 经常有人来视察这座监狱。
  • Government inspections ensure a high degree of uniformity in the standard of service. 政府检查确保了在服务标准方面的高度一致。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
3 inspectors
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 portrayed
v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中,他始终把自己说成是受害者。
  • The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 killers
凶手( killer的名词复数 ); 消灭…者; 致命物; 极难的事
  • He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
  • They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
6 corpse
n.尸体,死尸
  • What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
  • The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。
7 nomination
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
学英语单词
a-prime
adjacent edge
agrypnotics
aitificial brain
American shares
and I don't know what else
anterior region of wrist
asura tricolor
Autenrieth-Funk's method
bailee policy
bank balance
Beggars must cannot be choosers.
bend ova
big boys
black finish adjustable wrench
black sateen
burn shock
cardiac embarrassment
closed chromosome
constanta constant species
copper-chloride process
cut-out Brix
decktop
detailed soil survey
difforse
dinwiddie
disenchained
dungeoning
embryotheca
eubrianax manakikikuse
exhortative
external combustion stove
fast retrieval storage
flat die forging
foreign transfer
formation of hologram
glammest
go near
greenei
Group Areas Act
group reference pilot
gyroangle
height of eye
hemorrhagic fevers
hereditary patterns
Holly Pond
hyacinthoidess
hyms
incoherent radiation
information group separator
jackpudding
lilienfeld
lipoidaemias
livable
load radio
lycopus americanuss
magnitude of error
misanthropically
motivation research
MTRS (magnetic tape record start)
native grass
niebaum-coppola
official emoluments
Orvault
oxedrine tartrate
photo communication
pitchblende (massive uraninite)
Planomonospora
plate-screen modulation
pneumatic dispensing
policy primeval soup
prassoite (palladseite)
primary affix
psammocarcinoma
ranging-pole
Realico
red-heeled
retirement plan trust
sedded
self-end
semi-winterness
sipars
specific absorptivity
spiral grain loader
spreading via tissue space
stee
superheats
Taftville
teacher-participation
telangiectatic glioma
travicom
tricot knitting
uh-hum
user-specifieds
Ushuaians
vapour phase osmometer
visual think
Wadsworth mounting
wind onset
Windows Mail
worry about
Zenkov