时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. A bombshell on Capitol Hill as Florida Congressman 1 Mark Foley announced his sudden resignation in the wake of questions about suggestive e-mails he wrote a former teenage male congressional page. In a brief statement, Foley apologized to his family and constituents 2 but didn't address the contents of the e-mails.

2. A fifteen-year-old charged in the shooting death of a school principal complained that schoolmates picked on him. A criminal complaint filed against the rural Wisconsin teens says the boy felt his teachers and his principal weren't doing anything about it.

3. Family members of the 100 victims killed in a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island are outraged 3 over what they consider to be a lenient 4 sentence for the owners of the club. In a plea bargain, Mike Derderian was given four years in prison, his brother Jeffrey received no jail time.

4. The government is officially lifting its two-week-old warning about most fresh spinach 5. The warning now applies only to packaged produce that has already been recalled due to E. coli contamination.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. bombshell: n-count
A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.

2. pick on: phrase
If someone picks on you, they repeatedly criticize you unfairly or treat you unkindly. (INFORMAL)

3. lenient: adj.
Is someone in authority is lenient, they are not as strict or severe as expected..



n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
n.选民( constituent的名词复数 );成分;构成部分;要素
  • She has the full support of her constituents. 她得到本区选民的全力支持。
  • Hydrogen and oxygen are the constituents of water. 氢和氧是水的主要成分。 来自《简明英汉词典》
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
adj.宽大的,仁慈的
  • The judge was lenient with him.法官对他很宽大。
  • It's a question of finding the means between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.问题是要找出处理过宽和处罚过严的折中办法。
n.菠菜
  • Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
  • You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。
学英语单词
amorphia
angular speed ratio
ani-mals
annual stockholders' meeting
arithmetization of physics
Bagan Datuk
base for overhead distribution
bureaucracy
calligonidine
check sth in
choose death before disgrace
coal brand
common salt
complex unimodular group
corpora spongiosum
deceiver
diamino-phenylacetic acid
dispensation
dispensing optician
doublet combination lens
drainage of bone abscess
effective column height
eight extra-channels syndrome
elegize upon
Elmo's fire
emergency maintenance time
encapsulated data type
eradicant eating
erty
executory use
fairybooks
false divi pt.
fancy accounting
five-a-day
foolane
frigoris
funnygirls
geeksploitation
Gouley's catheter
grassplots
handcranked
henpecking
hexahedral face cutting
hillside combine harvester
hip-huggers
ilamycin
in place of somebody
inceptual
inextricable mixture
infestance
jumping effect
kikana mai (japan)
Klett value
Lavras
lingham
london city airport
low water level safety device
main gear-box
modern application
Musica
nephopyelolithotomy
nervi splanchnicus major
networked media player
noise reducing splitter
nondisturbance
notch ductile steel
octocosoic acid
Ozouri
persicifolia
Peňalara, Pico de
photothyristors
pick of
platinum plated anode
primuloides
product manager
pseudo-stable output pattern
pulmonary artery index
read after write delay
reheat staged expansion
rotherhithe
sandflat
schor
sharpliest
sick bay
slidings
solid-state ignition system
speed governing characteristics
structural intervention
subcooling refrigerating effect
supporting forces
swordpoint
synergic control
systemic biology
track laying machine
unlimited liability investment
unversioned
Villard's circuit
Vrizy
wire guided torpedo
write protection tab
zarthen dam
Zasosna