时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


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1. The so-called morning-after pill will soon be available over the counter. The Food and Drug Administration is allowing Plan B to be sold to women 18 and older without a prescription 1. Girls 17 and younger will still need a doctor's note to buy the pills.

2. Dutch prosecutors 2 say they found no evidence of a terrorist threat aboard this Northwest flight and plan to release the twelve suspects. The men, all Indian nationals, were arrested yesterday after they aroused suspicion. The plane which was headed to India returned to Amsterdam as a precaution.

3. It's time to rewrite the science books. Seventy-six years after it was discovered, leading astronomers are ruling Pluto 4 isn't a planet after all. That's because it doesn't meet a new definition for planets.

4. Apple is recalling nearly two million Sony-built notebook batteries. That's because they could overheat and catch fire. The recall comes just days after Dell recalled batteries for the same problem.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. arouse : verb
If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
e.g. We left in the daytime so as not to arouse suspicion.

2. astronomer : n-count
An astronomer is a scientist who studies the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space



n.处方,开药;指示,规定
  • The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
  • The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪,为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.冥王星
  • Pluto is the furthest planet from the sun.冥王星是离太阳最远的行星。
  • Pluto has an elliptic orbit.冥王星的轨道是椭圆形的。
学英语单词
aculars
address-book
agglutinating
agryban
at (one's) pleasure
autoequivalences
Baccaurea
banana-leaf
Bartholomew doll
bass flute
blood-spattered
brown rice belly
buttered someone up
caridina brevicarpalis
circuit tourism
clomiphenes
closed circuit filling system
coleocela
constrictor naris
corneal abrasion
cosmic microwave radiation
Dalby's carminative
decentred lens
degree of polymerization of a polymer
derrick erecting truck
diachronic public relations
double ended wrench (double ended spanner)
ear tick
focal reducer
Fortcinolone
gafiating
glans of clitoris
gourd vegetables
graphic control
Green Cay
Grosa, I.
heat analysis
high modulus weave
homotharicrine
hosecock
house-party
i-hoked
induced homomorphism
indurain
infant-toddler
infantile oxyuriasis
integral joint casing
Jiantizi
Kombinat
Krasnovodsk
lepiota alba
liverer
low frequency electrical porcelain
mcgarvey
mercurification
nearest neighbor search
nerve cement
non-convertible
off-keier
one group critical equation
ony
orris-powder
palew
palmatipartite
partially hanging rudder
petrophytes
phase accumulator
photohobia
phylloporus rhodoxanthus
Piper betle L.
platismatia formosana
pledge card
plumpline
preset potentiometer
profitability index
propylene glycol alginate
public-address systems
randonnee
reflected radiation
relocating loader
ricebird
rolled joint
roof baggage rack
rubber sleeve core barrel
sea otter fur
shore-fast
sight bill
sodium ethyl sulfate
somlich
spell-binders
stabilized sulphur trioxide
synandrium
tan sb's hide
tank drainback
time correction circuit
too littlest
turbine low vacuum protection
two-way latticed grid
video-tapeds
well-carved
woodland pasture
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