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
-orexia
abrasive hardness test
absorption current of dielectric
accommodation land(s)
Aconchada
apex point
Ba Ria
baby killers
baradar
be prepossessed by
begaumed
block floating point
cell division cycle gene
centrally planned economy
cermet of life-saving appliance
coarse-filter
combined air force
computer security verification
concrete tubular pile
cone-bearing tree
counterpropagandizing
cycloid curve
deffontaines
diethyl dichlorosilane
double-cup insulator
dresioside
ensors
estres
ethyl myristate
fingernail clam
flash light buttery
frequentflier.com
Fuirena ciliaris
genus Leucaena
half cross belt
hand-pull
have worms
hillside hitch
hook cant
hypercritic
interpretation of data
kayser-fleischer rings
leadership styles
leuco-
line telegraphy
low politics
lung fish
Luzula spicata
Manglietia conifera
market gardeners
mesocycle
microlepia marginata
Mignano
MINIA
moko-moko
mouse-deer
mousquetaire cuff
multidiameter boring cutter
multinomially
naming container
neatresse
Nicoya, Pen.de
nonactivated
nonperishable cargo
Obergriesbach
oconee bellss
optical density of cloud
over-and-over
ovula Nabothi
pall-bearer
planar growth
power density profile
programme step
re-imposed
resenteth
riyaq (rayak)
Sahelian
sake-cake
satellite telecommunication with automatic routine
Severo-Baykal'skoye Nagor'ye
sheet casting
sitherope
solar cell connection
staff light
statisitic reception
sulfide ion
supplicants
Sǒnch'ǒn
tablet
testing medium
tiemaker
to the manner born
trip coil
true equinox
undulated fibrous texture
unoriented crystalline polymer
value expressive function
vanadium tribromide
vapour diagram
versatile pulse shaper
Waleys