时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2005


英语课

1. Iraq's constitution seems assured of passage despite strong opposition 1 from Sunni Arabs, who voted in surprisingly high numbers in an effort to block it.

2. President Bush portrays 2 the Iraqi vote on a new constitution as a victory for opponents of terrorism and a sign that the country is moving toward democracy.

3. A bus carrying high-school students home from a band competition collides with a semitruck on an interstate in Wisconsin, killing 3 5 passengers.

4. A Pakistani official says 40,000 people died in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir in last week's earthquake, raising the overall death toll 4 to more than 54,000.

5. And fashion giant Burberry is threatening legal action against another British company that makes quirky clothing for ferrets, including a checked cape 5 and cap.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. semitruck=semitrailer
n.(名词)
A trailer having a set or several sets of wheels at the rear only, with the forward portion being supported by the truck tractor or towing vehicle.
半挂车:在后部有一套或若干套轮子,前部由牵引车或牵引机动车支撑的挂车

2. interstate
2 interstate interstates
In the United States, an interstate is a major road linking states.
We were driving along Interstate 280, toward my home in Woodside.
...the southbound lane of Interstate 75.
N-COUNT: also N num

3. quirky
quirky quirkier quirkiest
Something or someone that is quirky is rather odd or unpredictable in their appearance, character, or behaviour.
We've developed a reputation for being quite quirky and original.
ADJ-GRADED

· quirkiness
You will probably notice an element of quirkiness in his behaviour.
N-UNCOUNT



n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
v.画像( portray的第三人称单数 );描述;描绘;描画
  • The museum collection vividly portrays the heritage of 200 years of canals. 博物馆的藏品让运河200 年的历史再现眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The film portrays Gandhi as a kind of superman. 这部电影把甘地描绘成一个超人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • 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。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风
  • I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
  • She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
学英语单词
Aberangell
Abgatha
abyssal zones
acetrous vertebrae
amylocellulose
balance storage
bandcenters
bramber
byles
cabbage-palm
Camellia tenuivalvis
cargo forwarder
Chhatr
cimlac
class-conscious
combining standard deviations
conger myriaster
consistency error
constant fraction
cupric ion
decision making activities
defe
dextranase
differential duty
drying rock
emissary sphenoidal foramina
equipment record card
equivocators
esophageal forceps
essential oil
ex-interest
exotic school
extricate itself out of
fast-neutron reactor
field-mappings
firm believer
flatus vaginalis
freezeframing
glycopeptidolipids
Gran Sasso d'Italia
grey seals
Guarnieri's agar gelatin
heating element
Hibiscus esculentus
ideal quenching
ILVEN
IMPATT
itchingly
japanese industrial standard (jis)
jasson
Kalanchoe garambiensis
kanzas
labor inspection statistics
lasertripsy
loss on disposal of assets
lunatics have taken over the asylum
main air ejector
mandibular plate
Matjiesfontein
mccatters
median radius
microelectronic planar field-effect transistor
minifigs
mojonnier tube
nowhere differentiable function
nuptial tubercle
opinon
optimum aspect ratio
orbital dynamics
other side of the coin
outer thimble
oxide-trapped charges
pertainment
polyhemas
powder of sympathy
power structures
private message switch
rabah
radices parietales (v. cav? inferioris)
range space
reinterpret
rotary bucket drill
rutherford atoms
sinking and walling scaffold
sleevecase
small-headeds
sound file
sporomorph
state-space model
subject heading
sureleh
Taedong-ni
tibidabo
Tourette's
tree pointer
uncinula kusanoi
violette de Parme
wayans
ysawed
Zaoro-Songou
zendos
zoinka