美联社新闻一分钟 2005-11-10
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Suicide bombers 1 attack three hotels frequented by Westerners in the Jordanian capital Amman, killing 2 at least 18 people and wounding a hundred and twenty.
2. The heads of five major oil companies defend the industry's huge profits at a Senate hearing, where they are asked about high prices.
3. British Prime Minister Tony Blair suffers a major setback 3, losing a crucial parliamentary vote on a sweeping 4 new anti-terror bill.
4. Democrats 5 score big in off-year elections from New Jersey 6 to California, sinking a candidate who embraced President Bush in the campaign.
5. And people came to the ceremony, but Thailand's only two giant pandas were the bride and groom 7, at a panda wedding party in Chiang Mai Wednesday
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. frequent
2 frequent frequents frequenting frequented
If someone frequents a particular place, they regularly go there. (FORMAL)
I hear he frequents Kenny's, the Cajun restaurant in Hampstead.
VB
2. setback
setback setbacks
A setback is an event that delays your progress or reverses some of the progress that you have made.
The move represents a setback for the Middle East peace process.
He has suffered a serious setback in his political career.
N-COUNT: oft N for/in/to n also set-back.
3. sweeping
2 sweeping
If someone makes a sweeping statement or generalization 9, they make a statement which applies to all things of a particular kind, although they have not considered all the relevant facts carefully.
It is far too early to make sweeping statements about gene 8 therapy.
ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n disapproval
- Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
- She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
- The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
- Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
- They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
- His father was a groom.他父亲曾是个马夫。
- George was already being groomed for the top job.为承担这份高级工作，乔治已在接受专门的培训。
- A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
- The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。
- This sweeping generalization is the law of conservation of energy.这一透彻的概括就是能量守恒定律。
- The evaluation of conduct involves some amount of generalization.对操行的评价会含有一些泛泛之论。