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. President Bush says nobody should expect that all violence will end in Iraq. He says U.S. and Iraqi forces are making progress fighting the insurgency 1. But the president said he would not set a timetable for permanently 2 withdrawing U.S. troops.

2. Critics are calling Hurricane Katrina fraud a taxpayer 3 assault. A top FEMA official defended the hurricane spending, saying the cases of fraud only represent a fraction of the overall assistance provided.

3. An Indiana man has been charged with murder after the body of one of his sons was found in a lake. Police say Katron Walker abducted 4 his 2 boys at knifepoint and later stabbed them.

4. Dozens of Palestinian civil servants stormed a parliamentary session to demand their salaries. The crowd burst into the floor and threw water bottles and other small items at Hamas lawmakers. The parliament speaker was forced to leave the building.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. taxpayer : n-count
Taxpayers are people who pay a percentage of their income to the government as tax.

2. at knifepoint : phrase
If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you. (JOURNALISM)
e.g. A 15-year-old girl was attacked at knifepoint in a subway.

3. civil servant : n-count
A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.

4. burst into : verb
To burst into or out of a place means to enter or leave it suddenly with a lot of energy or force.
e.g. Gunmen burst into his home and opened fire.
= rush

5. floor : n-count
The place where official debates and discussions are held, especially between members of parliament, is referred to as the floor.
e.g. The issues were debated on the floor of the House.



n.起义;暴动;叛变
  • And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国,动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
  • Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网
adv.永恒地,永久地,固定不变地
  • The accident left him permanently scarred.那次事故给他留下了永久的伤疤。
  • The ship is now permanently moored on the Thames in London.该船现在永久地停泊在伦敦泰晤士河边。
n.纳税人
  • The new scheme will run off with a lot of the taxpayer's money.这项新计划将用去纳税人许多钱。
  • The taxpayer are unfavourably disposed towards the recent tax increase.纳税者对最近的增加税收十分反感。
劫持,诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(肢体等)外展
  • Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
  • The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
学英语单词
Ambot
ancestim
apoplexy involving the hollow organs
arguablest
ATPR
aural polyp
Cantillana
capeman
cartonfuls
cash donation
chlorantraniliprole
Cinzas, R.das
circulation failure
climatotherapy
columinescence effect
craniopharyngioma
cut them out
deoxyadenosine moniphosphate
derigueur
detorting
division center
encortin
English saddle
escape speed
exultingly
facultyman
femtocells
fibre cross-talk
flight line of aerial photography
flushing rubefaction
fps
gearing oil sprayer
harira
have a shy at something
hold sb in honor
Hopkinson yoke
Huon River
Hylobatidae
incremental cost
interpenetrative
interwinding backbone
iothalamates
joint with single butt strap
junk financing
keep off the spot
key brick
letter boxes
lido di roma (lido di ostia)
lilyturfs
lytropic liquid crystals
magnox
main class
manahawkin
march order
mosquito boat
MTAU
mtpa
natural model
non-linear field theorv
novatophan
off-axis distribution
overhaulings
packet radio
percentage uncertainty
pezzolis
plafibride
planariids
propeller shaft turning wrench
reconstructive surgeries
resliced
resplendencies
resulting tide
ring groove carbon remover
rock blasting
roseal
rotating-loop antenna
SAL (symbolic assembly language)
Samara River
Sargent
self love
sensitive thermometer
set-point
simavastatin
SMA-60
solventless coil
sovok
spacelike line
steel-lined wire winding channel
strum plate
sudoxicam
suicidal ideation
syndactylous
tendotransplantatio periostealis
thrust pressure
thunderegg
torch oil gun
tornadocane
traumatise
ultrared heating
violinophone
viral rubella
wilhelm eduard webers