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. Former President Gerald Ford 1 has been released from a California hospital. Ford was admitted there two weeks ago for treatment of pneumonia 2. At age 92, Ford is the oldest living former president.

2. A Pennsylvania teen has pleaded innocent to killing 3 his girlfriend's parents. 18-year-old David Ludwig stands accused of gunning down the girl's parents at their home last November. Ludwig's trial is scheduled to start September 5th. He faces the death penalty.

3. Early poll results show a win for the Palestinian Fatah party. The ruling party won the majority vote during parliamentary elections Wednesday. The elections mark the first time in a decade that Palestinians elected a new parliament.

4. It seems pop star Michael Jackson has found a new cover. The one-glove superstar was spotted 4 outside a mall in Bahrain, completely veiled in a black robe worn by conservative Bahraini women. In tow were Jackson's three children, also covered with the traditional Muslim headscarves.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. stand accused of :
If you stand accused of doing something wrong, people say that you have done it:
e.g. The government stands accused of eroding 5 freedom of speech.

2. the death penalty :
the legal punishment of death for a crime:
e.g. She would like to see the return of the death penalty in Britain.

3. in tow :
If you go somewhere with a particular person in tow, they are with you:
e.g. She arrived at the party, with a tall, silver-haired man in tow.



n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
n.肺炎
  • Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
  • Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
侵蚀,腐蚀( erode的现在分词 ); 逐渐毁坏,削弱,损害
  • The coast is slowly eroding. 海岸正慢慢地被侵蚀。
  • Another new development is eroding the age-old stereotype of the male warrior. 另一个新现象是,久已形成的男人皆武士的形象正逐渐消失。
学英语单词
AC-B
Ache and Pain
aerial pingpong
Aladdin's ring
aurous bromaurate
autonomous jurisdiction
back at the farm
backspace mechanism
bad endings
bird species
bit intervals
Burki
calibration time
cambells
cefriti
Cephalaspida
cheeped
cidariplura nigrisigna
clevis joint
critical point
double ribbon agitator
encumbering
enormous great
experimental model school
federal discount window
first saloon passenger
focusing conditions
fuel cycle costs
geared traction machine
gravitics
gravity anchor
half-cell reaction
hardened and tempered
helical waveguide
hereditary hydrocephalus
heterocercal
hidden city
high temperature materials
homedebtor
hook-shaped
image-
inartificial
indoor ventilation
jarringly
lactalase
lateralling
lead-base white metal linings
lesdar
line-printing
local focal length
monochaetia desmaytia sacc.
mordaciids
Mr. Right
multi finality
Nachalovo
natroxalate
nylon tube
oriented real hypersphere
paper technology
partan method
pension insurance
petrol-pump
phenylamine acetosalicylate
phoma glumarum ellis et tracy
piping flow sheet
placcntal barrier
ploes of the heaven
polarde
Polyphaga Sp.
power system element
principal axis of strain
Puccinia lysimachiae
pulse radar
put one's right hand to something
recorded-music
regular closed subset
reguli falsi
reinforceable
reverse osmosis desaltinating
rocket belts
run-time storage organization
scabicides
scintillation coincidence spectrometer
searching AND/OR graph
semaphore casting
semen bank
sequential similarity detection algorithm
setling
shoe-in
situatedness
sleaziness
so that
soulfully
stemmatological
tell it to the judge
three-eyed
train rear end air pressure feedback
udad
vogueish
waivure
workest
Xiphisteridae