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. On the last day of 2005, bombings and shootings in Iraq kill at least 20 people. Final results from parliamentary elections are expected next week.

2. The world greets the arrival of 2006 in a generally jubilant mood despite a New Year's Eve subway strike in London and worries in Asia about terrorism.

3. Kidnappers 1 in Yemen free a former German diplomat 2 and his four family members, among them, his wife, says "we are safe, thank God!".

4. Relatives of nearly 200 people killed in a Buenos Aires nightclub fire a year ago, Argentina's deadliest, hold vigils and protests, demanding justice.

5. And singer Tom Jones gets a knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, joining previous pop-rock knights 3 from Paul McCartney, and Mick Jagger, to Elton John.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. jubilant
jubilant
If you are jubilant, you feel extremely happy because of a success.
Ferdinand was jubilant after making an impressive comeback from a month on the injured list.
...the jubilant crowds of Paris.
ADJ-GRADED
= ecstatic

2. nightclub
nightclub nightclubs
A nightclub is a place where people go late in the evening to drink and dance.
N-COUNT also night club.



n.拐子,绑匪( kidnapper的名词复数 )
  • They were freed yesterday by their kidnappers unharmed. 他们昨天被绑架者释放了,没有受到伤害。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The kidnappers had threatened to behead all four unless their jailed comrades were released. 帮匪们曾经威胁说如果印度方面不释放他们的同伙,他们就要将这四名人质全部斩首。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.外交官,外交家;能交际的人,圆滑的人
  • The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话,紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
  • He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。
骑士; (中古时代的)武士( knight的名词复数 ); 骑士; 爵士; (国际象棋中)马
  • stories of knights and fair maidens 关于骑士和美女的故事
  • He wove a fascinating tale of knights in shining armour. 他编了一个穿着明亮盔甲的骑士的迷人故事。
学英语单词
agreed valuation
air displacement
albunea okinawaensis
all purpose communication system
Bagerhat District
beginning with
box-handling crane with grab
bulkhead deck
bunodophoron formosanum
channel plan
cocomposer
command mix
commuterdom
complexity editing
coronary artery disease
corrected thrust
cycle theory
demerara sugar
Deri motor
distributed architecture
drupa ricina ricina
Edison bridge
efferent(centrifugal)nerve
enjoy your meal
Erysiphe
exogenous disease
extruder screw
exudation
Farinales
filter bowl gasket
floating head exchanger
flood way district
flow sensing unit
freezing hole
fucosterols
future batch
gear pair with addendum modification
Georgian Orthodox church
glomerular epithelial cell disease
goacher
goodquality
grape-kernel oil
hedrich
image sensor type measurement instruments
interseptal structure
label mapping
lambsdorff
landing wheel
lay a cable
left common iliac artery
local prediction
magnolia delavayi franch.
makin' whoopee
McLennan County
methionine-enkephalin
Millett, Kate
na-na na-na na-na
nonprostatomegaalic
nuttle
outdoor pig keeping system
outest
Panolid
paper-filter
parasympathomimetic
parasyphilcsis
part-time farm household
pCF3
phytocoenosiumtype
pipe-bomb
poikilothermic
quebracho colorado
r. frontalis (n. frontalis)
rate of distance variation
rating of propulsion system
reiksguard
republics of bulgaria
respiratory centre
revolutionarity
rocket sciences
self-starting synchronous motor
short tunnel
sight feed gage
slipway with wedge type launching
solenoid-operated circuit breaker
spark proof
standard colorimetric system
subcurve
subensemble
sympathetic string
Synthetoceras
TCPIP
Thallobionta
Tintina
to proceed to a berth
tramegger
tuntun
unreduced oxide particle
upheave
volitional check
webspinner
wenningtons
winning run