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. Freed hostage Jill Carroll is one step closer to returning home. The freelance journalist is expected to land at Logan International Airport in Boston late tomorrow morning. Carroll was snatched off a street in Baghdad in January. She was released by her captors Thursday.

2. Anti-war protesters are following Condoleezza Rice as she travels around England. The crowd shouted as the secretary of state met with Muslim leaders. Rice later told reporters that, to a certain extent, the protesters made her point that "democracy is the only system that allows people to be heard and to be heard peacefully".

3. Thousands of demonstrators also took to the streets of New York. The massive group marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest a national immigration reform bill.

4. Check out these colorful bovine 1s. Over 100 fiberglass cows are on parade in Buenos Aires. The artwork will be exhibited through June, then sold at auction 2, the money going to charity.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. freelance :adjective, adverb
doing particular pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization:
e.g. Most of the journalists I know work freelance.

2. snatch :verb [T]
to take something or someone away by force:
The six-year-old girl was snatched from a playground and her body was found two days later.

3. bovine :noun [C]
an animal belonging to the same genus as cattle

4. fiberglass : noun [U]
a strong light material made by twisting together small fibres of glass and plastic, used especially for structures such as cars and boats:玻璃纤维

5. auction:noun [C or U]
a usually public sale of goods or property, where people make higher and higher bids (= offers of money) for each item, until the item is sold to the person who will pay most:
e.g. The house and its contents are being put up for auction



adj.牛的;n.牛
  • He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass andand munching,like some bovine creature.他丢开包袱,爬到灯心草丛里,像牛似的大咬大嚼起来。
  • He was a gentle,rather bovine man.他是一位文雅而反应迟钝的人。
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
学英语单词
actual thrust
alberobelloes
alternative digital system
ampullary canals of lorenzini
argentaffin-negative
asimilobrine
average absolute puulse amplitude
average flow of domestic hot-water supply
be all dolled up and no place to go
be out of touch
bescurvy
Bordj Welvert
brachelytra
bulk carrier (bc)
burst forth
buttercup family
cd-interactive
class-aaa
clearance limit for overhead contact wire
commoditable
communications industry
concretize
cross strain
decolourising
degree of swelling
Demochristian
detrimental resistance
diarthric
dominelli
dried shark's lips
effusive flow
eilectrophysiology
electromagnetic energy
escroll
eulogization
fidler
fighting top
forest thinning
fuel experimental station
GDP dissociation stimulator
generation or cohort rate
give someone the brush
gumpy
h.ramirez
hard-to-cut material
hemiarthrosis
hepato-enteric circulation
historization
hose thread
Hévié
i-control
iambe
icrt (international community radio taipei)
initial main sequence star
isosceles trapezoids
Kalamazoo County
laytimes
learning by discovery
megaselia (aphiochaeta) grandipennis
metipranolol
modifier edit code
monoubiquitinations
native client
need one's head examining
nonconverter
normal growth
nose-wheel bay
order-made
orthotopic graft
package log
plan of land utilizaton
post-marxist
principle isotope
pseudoion
pyroglobulinemia
quincunxes
radio meteorograph
radon gas
rapid-scan monochromator
recrystallisation
region calcanea
rigidifying
San Martino di Lupari
serpentinous
she-bitches
shifting level
shottying
single side band
split stern hull form
suicide victims
sulfatase deficiency
surong
survival rate of fish fry
technocomplexes
three-step feed box
titanium carbonitride
triungulin
unalchemy
unsubscribes
veggetable electricity
walk the streets
whitegloved