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
2-methylcortisol
aceraius grandis
Aconitum refracticarpum
allantois chorioidea
aquachloral
arsecheek
avant-gardists
back-channeled
be better of
bean tree
Biankouma
body-thrusts
buarques
bwe
C-Prolog
cable distribution point
Chattertonian
claisen para-rearrangement
coati-mundi
colour screw
Crookes' lens
cumulative error
cylinder cover bolt
date of clearance
dibutyryl
Diphyllobothrium erinacei
diplosomites
dome cap
drip gasoline
drywell ambient temperature
error locating
Euro share market
exhibition space
famale worker
fineberg
flunk
foam in hibitors
foreign exchange option
furnace transformer
gross out
half-bottles
heavy lorry
heterodyne repeater
household word
immanacled
income tax authority
intermodal freight terminal
johann maier ecks
josher
khanaqin
Kundsen-langmuir equation
Kutta-Joukowski airfoil
line broadening
linearly equivalence
lorente
lump salt
mating plug
melomelus
Middeldorpf's triangle
near-optimality
neurogenin
non-parametric cointegration
non-provisional
normal atmosphere
nucleus of the solitary tract
nurserygirl
Odawara
orbitosphenoids
Oto-Manguean
owner-like
phase contour
pig pile
plocamium telfairiae
Plutonian
positive vector
pressure-feed oiling
pullulatings
rabbet line
residual noise
reverse intergenerational influence
rodder
sael
sales record
sayan
scrambly
Silicon Wadi
single-action pressing
spongy brake pedal
structural basis
submolecule
sunk-in
Talodex
test harnesses
thunder thighs
torcious
transition state,transition complex
trimmed in bunker
unaccused
unbenzoled petrol
white mahogany
whitenest
zoocoenology