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
acetylated lanolin alcohol
acoustic compliance
actinyl fluoride
all agog to
amidinos
anomaly magnetic
apricot(kernel)
ariommas
arrest sb.on a charge of
aurresku
barrier gate
be a yes - man
brated shank tool
Bundeswehr
camargoes
chain twisting mechanism
childcarer
circularised
Combat Legistics network
combined curve
convicting magistrate
coping wall
cotton fabrics
debris dam
density spread
digital data recorder
dimaprit
dissociate rgb values
dragonflies
dumb-shit
duplicaria raphanula
entrepreneurial leadership
Eskimologists
euclasite (euclase)
Felis leo
fishing chief
flippery
fore-and-afters
fourday
fracks
Gal Oya
gear engagement
genus haemopiss
glass tubing gauge
glennville
glycerophosphoinositol
go-kartings
Gstadt am Chiemsee
haemoplastic
heath peat
Hong Kong Insurance Institute
husband-in-law
hypergnosis
inactivities
industry railway
inter company profit
intercurrent relapse
internal-external expectation
investment norm
isochoric activation energy
judaicas
Kapingas
karst stone column
locations tolerance
Melursus ursinus
minimax robust estimation
Musculus tensor fasciae latae
nochebuena
nuclear-instrument industry
numbering line
one-bullet regime
Onondaga Indian Reservation
orthognathous type
paracmasis
passantino
patchett
push-and-guide
racelite
ringing tester
riser bar
risk-neutrality
sepulchrum play
Sirrah, Nafūd as
slide valves
spring rocker
stress-strength time model (sst model)
surrejoinders
swerdloff
switch, hook
Takanamat
tanny
task detach
Tebafen
the terraces
thermoexpansion compensation angular ball bearing
transistorized servo amplifier
trevarthens
triple gyro compass
triplex system
unattached processing
Wandale
watt density