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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5'-nucleotidase
Aarskog-Scott syndrome
amphibious mine
antisepticising
arrow-poison
automatic verification system
azoospermatisn
bad grain
bathtub construction
bicathode
blood cups
bottle-shaped
bovine infectious keratitis
buffone
bulk print
carprifoliaceae
cereno
characteristic specified queries
Chinese lug
chromic bromide
chronicl
Classical Chinese
clear space level
cliquishness
cloudspotters
construction procedure
continental marine terminals
convergent beam electron diffraction
Cortia
cow barn
crater chain
cross bridging, cross-bridging
cross-matching of blood
customer equipment
descriptive stratigraphy
DesignCAD
differential flexure
direct spinning
Downpatrick
E.P.A., e.p.a.
East Lydford
eccentricity pressure
electro anaesthesia
escape message
extended result output
extra high vacuum
faderman
fricot
gas-sample counter
general import practice
geographical coordinates
gettered
glutethimide
hacan
heavy petroleum wax
high atlas
impulse magnetron
Jecoramid
Korean English
Lacflavin
lack of lactation
Larix sibirica
lenthall
lubricating oil metal test
lunulets
Mahagi Port
management competency
marshallian demand theory
mean sea-level surface
Medithermal
minute men
misconduct offence
multifinger structures
negative feed back
neglectedness
nickelous hydroxide
nixtamalizing
non metallic inclusion
north lobe
Oak Ridge
open mapping theorem
optical tunnel
ordesa
pathologic leanness
politicalizes
possibility by area
processing program
put the skids under
rakeries
random difference equation
reignition voltage of arc
richters
seminiferous
shellier
short-order cook
static marks
variable frequency local oscillator
Vatra Dornei
verbiage
wet hookup
yarn storage device
zorkmid