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


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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
accuracy class
Achemmim
air injection diesel
allyl isopropylacetyl urea
aminate mixed bed
anodic current density
authorized value
awards
basic refractory materials
bend-up
black acid
bonamiasis
Bowden cables
breitburg
calorimetric detector
chamber orchestra
chamfering tooth
chop back
Chuya
copper-fastens
crib foundation
cumulative time-series
curvilinear function
decumbency
dopplerite-sapropel
doubanjiang
double sliding back gear
ecosoc commissions
efficient sequence
egyptian water lilies
eventing
farfugium japonicum japonicum
feceated
Francés, Pta.
Gary Larson
glycine ethyl ester hydrochloride
graphologists
guaranteed benefit
heterodynamous
high-fibre
ICHs
image ray migration
incoterm
Ipomoea hederacea
it's not brain surgery
lava delta
lobell
Loeschia coli
lomaicegundi system
mahin
maiyire
mass-miniature
minimum period
misconverted
MMFs
mom jeans
msnbc
muhajirun
nanoconstruct
nice one
non condensing automatic extraction turbine
non-nutritive
non-random sample
operation support
page device descriptor
Philitas of Cos
photofluorographic apparatus
prissily
radio-frequency spectrometer
radiopaque medium
ring budding
royalize
Rubia rezniczenkoana
saw timber
scallop wire
scientific and technological public service
sewage grit
shipborne wave recorder
side-splittingly
single-error correction
soreq
stafylopenin
stored charge
stratum spinosum epidermidis
strict proportion
sweep everything into one's net
Tangse
tax settlement
Taylor formula
tempi
tent-fly
thizzle
thymoleptic
tidal indicator
Tiglyssin
tongolense
toward each other
trailing wire aerial
two-bath developer
ventral nerve trunk
whip cover
whitepapers