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
acushla
aerial topdressing
all to pieces
aspidospondyly
automatic time corrector
aversas
bachelorgirl
Badamgarh
bag liner
Biedronka
board paper
body diode
bourree
buildup index
call round
Capetown
chrome lignosulfonate mud
clamshell equipped crane
clfs
coastal lagoon facies
Cobitidae
combat crew training wing
concirculary flat
criterion of homogeneity
cross tab
curvirostral
dely
Desertines
direct coupled steam turbine
disrelated
dorr mill
double coil spring lock washer
eight-hour
ephemeral plant region
factored moment
fast multitasking operating
favid
fermentation kinetics
geeldikkop
genus berberiss
great fracture zone
Hachel
hazard index
hemimelus
HETEROPHOTODERMI
holes in joints of welded vessels
i-scan
ice thrust
inoscleroma
Jugu
jugular plexus
kosovo (kosovo i metohija)
laminars
leaps in
leskit
liukin
lobuli epididymidis
loum
lyceum movement
macroprototype statement
Mazzini tests
michael phelps
miscalibrated
misrecital
Monocladus amplexicaulis
moorband
multiple lesions
Na Ham
netobimin
Obama mania
oriented-grain steel
partial oxidizing roasting
Petasites vulgaris
porosity control
porus membrane
pre-dispatching schedule
prevaricatory
radio-frequency radiation recorder set
reasonableness
Rovieng Cheung
self demarking code
semen ispaghulae
sheepskin-lined
speedometer flexible shaft sleeve
sphenopsidas
static pressure regulator
stator ampere-turn
status of member
Stornosa
table flotation
transfer barrier
tropologetically
unit of observation
unlocking noise
variation tone
vena gastricas
water clear
WPAI
wrout
yanney
Z-angle
zeroizing