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. 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
-megaly
abbrevn
acute myelocytic leukemia
ageing failure
asbestos-cement slate
Atijo
authorized terms
autopsy start and end date/time
Baroknar
barton's
bear testimony to
Bielschowsky's diamine silver solution
brand character
British Standard Institution
cane level(l)ing machine
caseous
cassese
cataloging department
Catumbela
cock knocker
Code of Conduct for Liner Conference
congnois
cortical nephron
crowbar switch
cryaesthesias
diptercin
double roller mixer
drill headroom
Ebal
elementary contour
fault monitoring
fiber data link
folipex
four-cylinder triple-expansion engine
from all walks of life
Gaelicise
gairdners
gantos
gate conveyer
gay-lesbian student
gelatinous state
green restorer
header brick
history database
hollow core door
hydric sulphate
iduronate-2-sulfatase
large-type passenger plane
leptons
licks
lithol rubin b
Maengsangang
Makariv
mascaraing
media advocacy
megalomicin
metric series bearing
minor determinant
muffin top
multiple channels
nahla
nuchae necrotisans sycosis
off stream unit
panel research
parking area
Patesville
pearlite structure
pisscutter
pitted keratolysis
play up to sb
posterdesigned
premature contraction
pseudogenizations
put behind bars
reinspects
right and left-hand chart
scum of the earth
sheathing uranium
shortest path algorithm
slash-grain lumber
SRS (standard response spectrum)
Stenoptilia
strike sparks
suction velocity
sweat suits
tachygraph
taxol
tetraplodon urceolatus bryol eur
Titlagarh
Tomamae
tracking and data system
travel(l)ing winch
uniaxial spicule
upland cottons
vehicle operational mode
Vorster, Balthazar Johannes
walking about
wellhead device
wheel motor
World Trade Center Towers
Yathi
zarins