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. President Bush has announced changes at the White House. Chief of staff Andrew Card has resigned. He'll be replaced by budget chief Joshua Bolten.

2. Former Reagan Defense 1 Secretary Casper Weinberger has died. He was 88 years old.

3. The debate over immigration has sparked rallies around the country, drawing thousands to the streets. The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved legislation that includes a guest worker program. It still needs approval by the full senate.

4. In Israel, voters went to the polls in a general election that amounts to a referendum on the future of the West Bank. It looks good for acting 2 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was promising 3 to define Israel’s final borders by 2010.

5. Nationwide strikes continue in France against the new youth employment law that would allow employers to fire workers under the age of 26 without any reason in the first two years on the job. The new law is set to go into effect next month

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. amount to :[not continuous]
to be the same as something, or to have the same effect as something:
e.g. He gave what amounted to an apology on behalf of his company.

2. referendum :noun [C]
a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question:
e.g. Is it more democratic to hold a referendum, rather than let the government alone decide?

3. acting : adjective
someone who does a job for a short time while the person who usually does that job is not there:
e.g. He'll be the acting director until they can appoint a permanent one.

4. nationwide :adjective
existing or happening in all parts of a particular country:
e.g. a nationwide network



n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
学英语单词
a'cockbill
A.F.C
active sleep
alveololabial groove
assinuate
balloonry
beagled
bitter almond camphor
BLUS resifual vector
carpetbagging
case bay part
Chelidonium majus
clean cutting
Colbeckite
Confederate flag
copped tanke
crude test
cruzen i.
depressure tank
Dianthus sinensis L.
directional intermolecular force
down-faulting
duosecant
duration units
earn a good reputation
ex-dividend stock
fatuousnesses
ferryer
floorspace
foreign-exchange dealer
future commission merchant
galvanometer
Gangean
genus Uma
gone poof
half-neighbo(u)rhood
harbor craft
hawse-pipe
heat-resistant coating
helitankers
hoarhead
hyperinsulinemic obesity
instruction-based architecture
intussusceptive growth
lacinia falcata
ladening
leariest
limiter amplifier
lyeth
marchment
merry-go-round machine
microsaccades
microwave acoustics
mildew-retarding agent
missionise
Mitha Singh
molecular heat conduction
morality of law
mystinus
neocerebellar agenesis
no-load field voltage
nuclear power generation
oonin
pentastomiasis
photoerythema
pick-and-mix
pinch for
plywood ceiling
poison parsley
polynomial hazard function models
pop hole
Population-weighted
postflood
practicing
prognathometer
ricers
rippling edit
rober'
s's
Santorini's caruncula major
senior reactor operator
separating yarn
shock incarceration
shunting yard
slaw
small-denomination
starting air distributor
symploce furcata
tape speed
taxloss
Tellerette packing
temporary import
time per piece
to put to use
treib
unlabeled statement
vaginal hysterotomy
valvulae fossae navicularis
vertical photograph
wet process of parting
white gum
X-ray Luminosity of cluster of galaxies