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 ACLU files suit to block President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping 1 program which the group calls unconstitutional electronic surveillance of American citizens.

2. The Supreme 2 Court uphold Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.

3. Russia indicates Moscow's not ready to support moves by the US and its European allies to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program.

4. Pakistani officials say at least 4 foreign terrorists died in a purported 3 US air strike aimed at Al-Qadea’s No. 2 leader which has sparked protests in Pakistan.

5. "Brokeback Mountain" is moseying along the Academy Awards trail. Its four Golden Globe wins including Best Drama position(s) the cowboy love story for Oscar glory.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. suit: noun [C] (ALSO lawsuit)
a problem taken to a court of law, by an ordinary person or an organization rather than the police, for a legal decision:
e.g. He filed a $12 million libel suit against the newspaper, claiming his professional reputation had been damaged by the paper's stories.

2. unconstitutional : adjective
not allowed by the constitution (= set of rules for government) of a country or organization:
e.g. Such a change in the law would be unconstitutional.

3. mosey: verb [I usually + adverb or preposition] INFORMAL
to walk or go slowly, usually without a special purpose:
e.g. I'll just mosey on down to the beach for a while.

4. position: verb [T usually + adverb or preposition]
to put something or someone in a particular place:
e.g. The army had been positioned to the north and east of the city.PHR-V



n. 偷听
  • We caught him eavesdropping outside the window. 我们撞见他正在窗外偷听。
  • Suddenly the kids,who had been eavesdropping,flew into the room. 突然间,一直在偷听的孩子们飞进屋来。
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
adj.传说的,谣传的v.声称是…,(装得)像是…的样子( purport的过去式和过去分词 )
  • the scene of the purported crime 传闻中的罪案发生地点
  • The film purported to represent the lives of ordinary people. 这部影片声称旨在表现普通人的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
anoy
bering land bridge
biohermal
blennerhassets
bookcrosses
card punch reproduce check unit
cascade experiment
charge prepaid
checks us out
clusterite
coach-wheel
condensed monolayer
cotton silk union
crumplely
Curaray, R.
cutting tool for drill
day car
debts
deunionised
differential mode interference
drengages
drum clutch
E-Thrombosis
earth-
EDBP
empty body weight of lamb
end-and-end lease
feel short of
fern year
ficedula albicilla
filing date
flannel fabrics
foramen hypoglossal
geared machine
genus leiopelmas
glycero-aldehyde
greens economizer
hafnium plate
hand operated starter
heterogeneity index
hindnecks
hypocentre(hypocentrum)
impatiency
in half
inlet cock
interspecific interaction
intradisciplinary
jus aequum
kabish
Kimpila
layerage by notching
lesur
Ligamentum lumbocostale
liver cheese
logarithmic deviations
lumpenus lumpretaeformiss
machine science
made ourselves at home
Major-Minor Fault Presumption Rule
Manglares, Pta.
mechanical washer scrubber
Milesian
monolight
neocarzinostatins
non concurrent force
obtain a refund of a deposit
phaseolin
pierce-arrow
pikeheads
plumber's itch
predigest
programmable keypad
promove
radiation-induced someatic effects
reckoning without
regressive tax
Rhododendron ririei
right to grass
running-light current
sacrileger
sale-leaseback
Savozero, Ozero
sederunt
Sergokalinskiy Rayon
shrievalty
special interest holidays
spot-kicks
stabilization tank
stand by you
starting carburetor
steering grommet
sternnesses
stet
to-reose
tonations
upright vacuum
URL bar
uwajima
vapourises
wages of sin
walling curb