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. Hezbollah's leader warns his group is ready for "open war" with Israel. That's according to an audiotape that was released shortly after Israel blasted Hassan Nasrallah's home and office in southern Beirut. The leader wasn't hurt.

2. President Bush says he's told Russian activists 1 the US cares about what type of government Russia has. The president arrived in Saintt Petersburg in advance of a G-8 summit. There's concern that Russian President Putin is backing away from democratic principles.

3. Police just released the surveillance video of a landmark 2 New York City town house being leveled by an explosion. Investigators 3 believed the homeowner might have caused the blast, so his ex-wife wouldn't get money from the property during their divorce.

4. Ben Roethlisberger says his motorcycle accident changed his life. The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback told reporters the wreck 4 was a wake-up call that showed him he might have been taking his life for granted

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. back away: phr-v
If you back away from a commitment that you made or something you involved in the past, you try to show that you are no longer committed to it or involved with it.

2. landmark: n-count
A landmark is a building or feature which is easily noticed and can be used to judge your position or the position of other buildings or features.

3. wreck: vb
A wreck is an accident in which a moving vehicle hit something and is damaged or destroyed.

4. wake-up call: n-count
If you say something is a wake-up call to a person or a group of people, you mean it will make them notice something and start to take action.



n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.失事,遇难;沉船;vt.(船等)失事,遇难
  • Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
  • No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
学英语单词
1-chloro-2-methyl-2-propanol
acquisition
Aldeno
antipirate
astern parts
at anchor
bahasa melayus
belmounts
benesh
Berw.
betombled
Blue Ray player
breach-of-contract
Brunnera
c.o.i
cholecystosonography
cholera suppressa
coal-bearing formation
containment boom
cordage store
crystalline nephropathy
cubically
Cyathostoma
darby slicker
database-independent
deciamperes
descaling furnace
diazol colours
digitizable
discovery sampling
dissepimenterium
DNA synthesizer
electrochemical machine
entering tape
essential fructosuria
exhaust emission target
explosion bulge test
flower primordia
folding dental chair
fracturer
genus triopss
germactol
gravelrash
greencastle
greysteil (scotland)
high-vacuum grease
hilly land allotted for private use
horseshoe flame furnace
ICCA
instability analysis
jury masthead hitch
labour and management
large print
maleh
mean square consecutive fluctuation estimator
meta-methylnitrobenzene
Minkowski problem
nandoos
niu
occasionative
ohte
outbounds
particle accelerators
penev
piperazinium
polyisocyanate
pre-cirral canal
psychological characteristic
put wear the motley
Pyrus
railway charter
Realized interest rate
reinfuses
relascope
relaxation period
removed pencil
ride roughshod over someone
ring wheel chuck
satisfaction rate
sauris inscissa
scrap mica
shadow-nucleus
sigrim
single lug
squeezed
SSB converter
sternovertebral
stimulation of salesmen
strengthening rib
string instruments
suborder Pinnipedia
sugarer
sumgait
tetrasulfide
transformer winding
unamortized debt expense
urdan
warm-warm
working-hours method of depreciation
wrayer
yecabuquts