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. Karl Rove puts in his fifth appearance before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s identity. President Bush’s deputy chief of staff and a lawyer entered the federal courthouse in Washington D.C. Sources say Rove is testifying about new evidence that’s emerged in the case.

2. A community in Central Pennsylvania is mourning the tragic 1 loss of a 6-year-old girl. Officials say the girl and her mother escaped safely from their burning home, but the girl got separated and ran back into the burning home where she died.

3. If you think gas prices are soaring here, wait until you hear what drivers are paying at the pump overseas. In London, the average price for a gallon of regular gas is $6.17.

4. Researchers unveiled new technology that one day may be able to help the elderly and disabled. This 2-legged robot, which is controlled by 2 joysticks, allows patients to be carried upstairs (or) on bumpy 2 surfaces, but it would be at least five years until the device is on the market.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. put in an appearance
Show oneself at or attend a meeting, party, etc, esp for a short time
e.g. I don’t want to go to the party but I’d better put in an appearance, I suppose.

2. joystick : noun
A manual control or cursor device, as one attached to a computer or video game.

3. bumpy : adj.
(of a surface) not even; with a lot of bumps
e.g. a bumpy road / track ; bumpy ground



 



adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
adj.颠簸不平的,崎岖的
  • I think we've a bumpy road ahead of us.我觉得我们将要面临一段困难时期。
  • The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.铺好的宽阔道路渐渐变窄,成了一条崎岖不平的小径。
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abeqithymia
Abies firma
access system
alternate host parasites
analysis of agricultural data
azo dyeing
backup-archive client
barnette
Burgaly
center-work
chickenarian
churn of wave
cleaner strainer
cleanhandedly
come pat to
coolant-gas-carrying auxiliary system
copy order
crackerbreads
crossapol b.
cut and fill balance
Daddy Warbucks
Dakshina Kannada
Dettingen an der Erms
Didelphidae
dual liquid applicator
dyestuffs
eleutherol
epineural canal
ERL-080
evictors
fasting pen
Fery cell
flocculent suspension
flow audit procedure
four hand
frances elizabeth caroline willards
friendish
graphic user world
greenthumb
Greetland
Grodzisk
hemachates
hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtzs
impanating
import and export merchant
inductance type displacement transducer
lamp socket antenna
Leptinotarsa
line of trend
livid brown
lounsbery
Mantoux reversion
maximum cruising rating
mean engine operating time between failures
mokopuna
monthly settlement report
ninety-day wonders
non-basic activity
noncorrect
None so deaf as those who won't hear.
odo(u)r specialist cell
Ooststellingwerf
optical fiber phase conductor
otto robert frisches
palm-presser
paraffin oil
pig liver
pissing contest
plumeries
polychloroprene foam
progressive rotation
quinochrome
R.F.T. typing
recent amnesia
reinforcing girder
retinal epilepsy
S tectonite
Saxifraga tigrina
selling process
serial analysis
shifting executory interest
sock something away
socked
sogier
Sophora brachygyna
squirrel cage mill
stangl
statistical invariance
steel tube armour
superstimuli
survey boat
three-shear ram
time-varying gradient
traquair
tricyclohexyltin hydroxide
Turkifies
vertigo
vesperae
Wagner's operation
waterproofing plaster coat
WVV