时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


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1. Harry 1 Whittington says accidents do and will happen. The 78-year-old lawyer was released from a hospital Friday, 6 days after Vice 2 President Dick Cheney accidentally shot him during a quail 3 hunting trip in Texas.

2. As many as 1,500 people are missing after a landslide 4 wiped out an entire village on the Philippine island of Leyte. Initial estimates suggest at least 200 people are dead. The Pentagon is offering to help in the rescue and relief effort.

3. Women on the birth control patch are being urged to talk to their doctors. That's because a new study by the maker 5 of the Ortho Evra found the patch doubles a woman's risk of blood clots 6 in the legs and lungs. An estimated four million women have used the once-a-week patch.

4. it’s a first of its kind. The world's largest panda breeding center in southwest China just opened a kindergarten for 16 young pandas. The center hopes this will help the pandas find their mates more easily

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. a first :
an event that is described as a first has never happend before and is important and exciting.
e.g. This new surgical 7 technique is a first for (= has never been done before in) Britain.



vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.鹌鹑;vi.畏惧,颤抖
  • Cowards always quail before the enemy.在敌人面前,胆小鬼们总是畏缩不前的。
  • Quail eggs are very high in cholesterol.鹌鹑蛋胆固醇含量高。
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
n.凝块( clot的名词复数 );血块;蠢人;傻瓜v.凝固( clot的第三人称单数 )
  • When you cut yourself, blood clots and forms a scab. 你割破了,血会凝固、结痂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Milk clots when it turns sour. 奶变酸就凝块。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
adj.外科的,外科医生的,手术上的
  • He performs the surgical operations at the Red Cross Hospital.他在红十字会医院做外科手术。
  • All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.所有的外科手术器械在使用之前,必须消毒。
学英语单词
aggressive
alizarin brilliant violet R
Altinho
ammonium hydroxides
apophysitis
arteria auricularis
Ashitomi
atholton
basketball games
boat-handling
bore of cylinder
brake foot plate
bulb thermomter
Choanoflagellida
cognation
commutation winding
counter forces
crankshaft
current output state
decentralized computer system
demures
density testing
diathetic prurigo
direct fired dryer
DMPI
domestic tranguility
double belting
drum up trade
electric actuating mechanism
electronic controlled incubator
electronic spin resonance magnetometer
engineers-in-chief
equipment receipt out
file access auditing
flink
follow-up phase
fore set
Frommann's lines
full pitch winding
gensley
gob floor
GSAM
Halteriptera
handaxe
Hickman
indoor growing
isolated-phase bus
jet purifier
key sensity
Lantianman
leaf-fat
machine assignment problem
male-institution
manslayer
metatarsalis
methoxyindole
microphyll type
MILSTRAP
non-typical sequence
numpts
offer and counter offer
over-flow rule
overpleases
pensado
peripheric velocity
pharyngostomy
pigeonholes
pilot projects
print seller
pumice aggregate concrete
rational continuum mechanics
regional development program
relative cost coefficient
revise a budget
rhombencephali centralis arteria
Rovignese
safety socket-outlet
sequacious
shuttlecocked
Sierpinski cube
single chain drive
slip case
solarpowered
sospsts-s
starting arrangement
stearo-palmito-olein
stellated structure
stem gear
strip-card reader
sub-kingdom
subsymbolic
tagline survey
telecommunication equipment room
tendinous arch of levator ani muscle
tendon rupture of brachial triceps
test portion
the boston tea party
Tyazhin
ultraportable PC
Viola patrinii
washing-loss
WFS