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
accounting rule
acrilans
Ahtari
antineoplaston
append command
bad girl
besticking
Billerica
blank cell
Blastus cogniauxii
byeli
cast hardness
Chebutan
chodorows
collective donation
countermaster
criminate
custodialism
cylinder air starting
cylinder expansion
data hygiene
decrepitaton
dencichine
deprotonates
difluoroamine
dimorphic colony
double-step write compensation
drop crotch
eat our words
evections
foeniculi fructus
forcried
freedoms from double jeopardy
front recess
girly
globulimeters
glottogenetic
haplaquept
height correcting mechanism in rangefinder
herbe
historical tradition
in-feed centerless grinding
intiative
iodoxamic acid
it's a crying shame
K lines
land of the free
leukoplastid
lever pessary
ligamenta malleoli lateralis posterius
llorca
Matachic
material carrier
maximum operating limit speed
MG/DL
mid-prophase
navy navigation satellite system (nnss)
neuro-psychic
non-linear transformation
non-resistants
noncosomicol
numskulls
optimum tine angle
Otue
parachlorophenylalanine
pilot conversion
pissface
portil
poupart's ligament (or inguinal ligament)
pre-shaving tooth profile
prodigalizing
purse sring
rig camera
satsuma plum
schistocormus fissicollis
Schutzbund
serjeant at arms
sewer hog
software-based modem
speedwriter
SS-A
stardelta
static condition
steal aglance at
succulence
sunroof sedan
superset expansion board connector
synchronous vibrations
take to the cleaners
take warning
Talanga
tax-exempt organization
Tilia japonica
tree bark
tuberculosis of pelvic peritoneum
Twents
unrestrained type
urticant
Warner Lakes
well location
whitepages.com
wood working shop