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. With violence at a relative low, large numbers of Iraqis turn out to vote. Turnout is strong in Sunni areas too, and ballot 1 shortages are reported in some precincts.

2. The White House reportedly agrees to Senator John McCain's call for a law banning cruel, inhuman/inhumane and degrading treatment of foreign terror suspects.

3. A record plunge 2 in gas prices pushes consumer prices down by the largest demand in 56 years, while industrial production posts a solid gain.

4. German officials say the European Union will address claims by Iran's president that the Holocaust 3 is a myth at this week’s EU summit.

5. And in Manila, students at the University of the Philippines stage their annual Oblation Run, sprinting 6 around campus with nothing on but masks

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. turnout
2 turnout turnouts
The turnout in an election is the number of people who vote in it, as a proportion of the number of people who have the right to vote in it.
In 1988 the turnout was 50%.
Election officials said the turnout of voters was low.
A high turnout was reported at the polling booths.
N-COUNT: usu sing also turn-out.

2. precinct
2 precinct precincts
A precinct is a part of a city which has its own police force and fire service. (AM)
The shooting occurred in the 34th Precinct.
N-COUNT: usu ord N

3. stage
5 stage stages staging staged
If you stage an event or ceremony, you organize it and usually take part in it.
Russian workers have staged a number of strikes in protest at the republic's declaration of independence.
At the middle of this year the government staged a huge military parade.
VB
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4. sprint 5
4 sprint sprints 7 sprinting sprinted 8
If you sprint, you run or ride as fast as you can over a short distance.
Sergeant 9 Horne sprinted to the car.
VB



n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
n.大破坏;大屠杀
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
n.圣餐式;祭品
  • Thinkers and poets throughout the ages have offered the courtesan the oblation of their mercy.各个时期的思想家和诗人都把仁慈的怜悯心奉献给娼家女子。
  • Each family has their own ancestor for oblation.谁家也不缺个祖宗来供奉。
n.短距离赛跑;vi. 奋力而跑,冲刺;vt.全速跑过
  • He put on a sprint to catch the bus.他全速奔跑以赶上公共汽车。
  • The runner seemed to be rallied for a final sprint.这名赛跑者似乎在振作精神作最后的冲刺。
v.短距离疾跑( sprint的现在分词 )
  • Stride length and frequency are the most important elements of sprinting. 步长和步频是短跑最重要的因素。 来自互联网
  • Xiaoming won the gold medal for sprinting in the school sports meeting. 小明在学校运动会上夺得了短跑金牌。 来自互联网
n.短距离的全速奔跑( sprint的名词复数 )v.短距离疾跑( sprint的第三人称单数 )
  • You can run sprints only so long before you're out of breath. 你死命地跑,只能跑那么一段时间,到了喘不上气的时候,只好停下来。 来自辞典例句
  • The cheetah finds the open grasslands ideal footing for its lightning-quick sprints. 非洲猎豹把开阔的草原作为它们闪电猎食的理想处所。 来自互联网
v.短距离疾跑( sprint的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He sprinted for the line. 他向终点线冲去。
  • Sergeant Horne sprinted to the car. 霍恩中士全力冲向那辆汽车。 来自辞典例句
n.警官,中士
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹?
学英语单词
Achillean
air pressure regulator valve
ask for a ruling
atonements
belay
big-businesses
bigram
botolph
brined meat
camera control operator
cathode half bridge
Centranthera tonkinensis
certificate of audit(or)
charing machine
Chorvoq
class-struggle
collision drill
coverboys
coveys
deliquity
drop-in commercial
drum-like
dry risers
Eastern Western
Egyptian grass
emulsio olei jecoris plscis
ensealing
evrythin
extraneous evidence
exudative lobular tuberculosis
family Ginkgoaceae
floating warranty
fried sliced pork
gamma activation analysis
gargulun
greenweed
gutenbergs
helium 3B phase
icaroscope
idiochord
incompatibility problem
infantile spinal muscular atrophy
inhibiting pulse
Jehovah-tsidkenu
kavans
knocks it off
ku niao su
landscape genetics
leichman
lime glass
longitudinal magnetic field probe
macro-function
master of the house
Mauritius
miniplant
Mitmachen
monitrice
mosswood
native XML database
non-uniform shock wave
on the down grade
out migrant
pelletierine sulfate
perseveraunt
post-coordinate
preselections
prochlorophytes
quavering
raising by dewatering with compressed air
ratless
respiratory enzymes
reverberation absorption coefficient
Rubrobacteraceae
ruling and balancing accounts
ruyschiana
sanitary pads
Sayatón
season duck
secondary industrial sectors
semiiterative
shareable routine
Siabu
siliceous wood
snoopily
software licensing
spastic unilateral paralysis
Stegnogramma
stomach types
superscribing
t-tube
tactic pattern
temporalls
tetraconate
thomas hopkins gallaudets
triacontahexaene
trichilemmal
Vallisneria denseserrulata
wastewater dilution
Wild-Barfield furnace
yard-wand
yeast contaminant