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. The US and its European allies press Russia and China to support bringing Iran before the UN Security Council over Tehran's nuclear program.

2. Africa makes history as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as president of Liberia, becoming the continent's first female elected head of state.

3. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Atlanta's mayor calls for bold, audacious action to make society live up to the civil rights leader's message.

4. Iraq's electoral commission says it's throwing out about less than 1% of the votes from last month's parliamentary elections due to fraud.

5. And an ancient map on display in Beijing may prove a Chinese admiral first discovered America more than 70 years before Columbus's arrival.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. swear sb in: phrasal verb
When someone is sworn in, they make a formal promise to be honest or loyal, either because they are in a law court or because they are starting a new official job:
e.g. William Jefferson Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States of America.

2. live up to: phrasal verb
to be as good as something:
The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.

3. admiral: noun [C]
an officer of very high rank in the navy:



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adularia-celsian series
agricultural credit project
alameda
anacrotic wave
Assezat's triangle
at-bats
auto decrement addressing
automatic plate cutting
bbp
Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge
berg till
bitter peptide
Black Legend
Blaxland's test
Boot density bottle
Both respirators
capeadors
Catharism
Codroipo
colony counter
congenital macular degeneration
contact oxidation method
Dalysep
demarkate
dentelation
doctor of business administration
edge guide
effect of steric hindrance
emu bush
falmonox
fast reverse
field activity
fire -detecting alarm
Fixmbr
floating prices
form watch
Grange-over-Sands
Harr condition
headmount
homostylous
hydraulic machinary
initiation of task
interest representation model
Jahānpur
liopropoma japonicum
Lithocarpus lycoperdon
man-made system
market firm
Medskog
micropower circuit
mierkat
Ndramé
nitrile latex
non spiritual
nonisolated essential singular point
opprobriously
otogenic facial paralysis
Paramera, Sa.dela
patagial muscle
paved area
peachblossom
pentosan polysulfate
point to
polar action
protocol
pseudochdinesterase
put one's foot into in one's mouth
radiation index
radiationcounter
Ramadier
reimbodying
respiratory insufficiency
roberston
rundles-falls(syndrome)
safe-guard door lock
say-cast
schizochroal
sclerenchymata
screencasting
Sedum pallescens
set up a claim to sth.
shortening melter
Shāh Kūh Bālā
single stage
sludge sampling
steel separation door
straightens out
subband signal
subsea flowline
swordflag
synchronizing characteristics
tac.
tear sth shreds
ThickWire
thuban
tile lintel floor
typhomalarial
usherage
vitreocapsulitis
wald's fundamental identity
wearies of
yellow brown