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. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Jerusalem on a high-stakes diplomatic mission. Her first stop was Beirut where leaders were disappointed that her trip did not bring about an Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire.

2. A Texas jury is deciding if Andrea Yates was insane when she drowned her 5 children in the bathtub in 2001. Her attorneys claim she was delusion 1al and believed killing 3 her kids was the only way to save them from hell.

3. Newly released amateur video shows an incident in which a 14-year-old boy got sucked to the bottom of a hot tub. Authorities say a grate at the bottom became dislodged creating a strong suction that pulled the teenager down. Doctors expect a full recovery.

4. One daredevil's attempt to break his own world record for a longest motorcycle jump ends in a crash in Oklahoma. The promoter says a carburetor problem may have caused the accident. The daredevil was taken to a local hospital.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. high stakes
if the stakes are high when you are trying to do something, you risk losing a lot or it will be dangerous if you fail.

2. attorney: n-count
In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.

3. delusion: n-count
A delusion is a false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness.

4. grate: n-count
A framework of parallel or latticed bars for blocking an opening.

5. dislodge: verb
To disloge means to move it from where it was fixed 4 or held.

6. suction: n-count
It means a force that causes a fluid or solid to be drawn 5 into an interior space or to adhere to a surface because of the difference between the external and internal pressures.

7. daredevil: n-count
A daredevil is one who is recklessly bold and adventurous 6.

8. promoter: n-count
A promoter is a financial and publicity 7 organizer.

9. carburetor: n-count
A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.



n.谬见,欺骗,幻觉,迷惑
  • He is under the delusion that he is Napoleon.他患了妄想症,认为自己是拿破仑。
  • I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me.我误认为他要娶我。
妄想的
  • You became delusional and attacked several people trying to escape. 你产生了错觉并攻击了许多人还试图逃走。 来自电影对白
  • He is incoherent, delusional, suffering auditory hallucinations. 他出现无逻辑的,妄想的,幻听的症状。 来自电影对白
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
adj.爱冒险的;惊心动魄的,惊险的,刺激的 
  • I was filled with envy at their adventurous lifestyle.我很羨慕他们敢于冒险的生活方式。
  • He was predestined to lead an adventurous life.他注定要过冒险的生活。
n.众所周知,闻名;宣传,广告
  • The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
  • He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法。
学英语单词
3-epimerase
add fuel to the flame
adhesin
air release pipe
alphitite
alternate operating columns
anabiotic state
anaphalis margaritacea benth. et hook.
Anemone sinensis Bunge
anthophilous insect
basal
bathing place
bearing performance
bidding sheet
biostratinomy
Brunckite
burier
carinthias
centrallassite
chihuahuan
clearing error
corrugated vessel
cruzados
darwazagay (darwazahgai)
daughter-herdmate comparison
decremental chain
Dendara
direct transmission
dochmii
doxxed
economic clerk
elctrohemostasis
electromechanical coupling factor
excitation variable
film fern
genital appendage
genus grindelias
genus Todus
gingival plane
gulf stream system
have an eye for something
high-impedance receiver front end
high-quality
hispidissimus
human excrement
hunyn
Jack in a Box
labile phosphate group
lissomer
loaded freeboard
macroderma gigas
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
metric property
minionettes
missletoe
mistake as the parties
mobile-source
net export
nonharmonic constants
nonimbedded command
OODBMS
outborrowing
part in bending
PDRB
permanent orbital station
photoelectric measuring device
pilot ladders
point-focussed electron gun
preteenage
ravenousnesses
re-romanize
remissal
rings missing
Romanicist
rossler-edelmann process
SCKL
seawater-sediment interface
singles court
skilled worker
slack feeder
slag ballast
smarty-pant
specker
Strux
strychnine glycerophosphate
supraphons
sympathetic trunk (or sympathetic chain)
tandem ion analyzer
thallium acetate
thioindigo test
transliterators
trigger-price equilibrium
tripfag
twisted hair
two-dimensional interferometry
unchauvinistic
unfertilizable
value voter
valve oil
weasel out
xoxocotlan
Zhicheng