时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


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1. Tennessee officials say Marry Winkler confessed to killing 1 her minister husband Wednesday and then leaving town with the couple's three young daughters. Winkler was arrested late last night after she was spotted 2 in Alabama. She’s been charged with first degree murder.

2. They are getting their money back along with a flight home from Jamaica. About 2,600 passengers are being sent home after a cruise ship caught fire. A smolder 3ing cigarette is suspected as the cause of the blaze that left one Georgia man dead and 11 others hurt.

3. Protesters jammed the streets of Phoenix 5. These demonstrators are protesting legislation that cracks down on illegal immigration. Similar protests are also being held in Los Angeles and Atlanta.

4. It’s a setback 6 for slugger Barry Bonds. A judge has denied the request by the baseball player’s lawyer to block the authors and publishers of "Game of Shadows" from profiting from the book. The book claims Bonds used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. confess :verb [I or T]
to admit that you have done something wrong or something that you feel guilty or bad about:
e.g. He confessed to having slept through most of the film.

2. smolder :verb
to burn slowly with smoke but without flames:
e.g. The fire was started by a smouldering cigarette.

3. crack down :phrasal verb
to start dealing 7 with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way:
e.g. The library is cracking down on people who lose their books.

4. slugger :noun [C]
baseball player who hits many extra-base hits



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。
v.无火焰地闷烧;n.焖烧,文火
  • The smolder will soon be a flame.闷火很快变为烈焰。
  • It can smolder undetected for hours,then suddenly explode in fiery destruction.也有可能好几小时内不被发觉,突然激烈的爆炸。
v.用文火焖烧,熏烧,慢燃( smolder的现在分词 )
  • The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen. 燃烧的木棒落下的地方垫子慢慢燃烧起来。 来自辞典例句
  • The wood was smoldering in the fireplace. 木柴在壁炉中闷烧。 来自辞典例句
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
n.退步,挫折,挫败
  • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
  • She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
学英语单词
- seeded
2-(hexyloxy)benzamide(antifungal)
2-amino-5-c
al humaymat
amplitude constraint
antibody absorption test
anticyclic acid
autome
B-L
Baker process (for zinc extraction)
belion
benign granulomatosis
bill of lading of combined transport cargo
binary fan-in technique
bridwell
brose
Brosmius
bus running record
cineration
diphosphine dioxide
distribution device
Edward R Murrow
electron tunnel(l)ing effect
entomologists
excitation process
extra yarn
fger
file management loading facility
floor inspection
fresh-ground
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
governing spring
graduating device
grit reservoir
gun-type weapon gunk
hoelzer
homuncules
huckster
hybrid system check
Impatiens scabrida
impleach
inductor modeling
internal politics
Jipe, L.
laser ion
Launaea
lauroyls
legally competent to contract
lespedeza guard
limestone sink
Linksmakalnis
Lobos, Cay
lobulus azygos
Lomatogonium carinthiacum
lutose
manned spar buoy
middorsal chord
Moulinex
mucin of b.anthracis
Musculus extensor
Mwana-Goi
nailpiker
nestle-tripe
neuroinoma
Niger seed
non-suit
nucleus of abducent nerve
Oguchi disease
oil dip rod tube
open your eyes
Operculina turpethum
pattern stimuli
photorespires
pollard system
principal ideal domain
product modeling
racetrack microtron
redolences
resolution chart
rod shadow effect
school welfare officer
scleral border
secondary cause
Setenv
settlement within quota
shovelings
sine-wave frequency
spam killer
special pliable hoisting rope
standard and recommended practices
strengthenest
symmetric heterostatic circuit
tartary buckwheat
the Modern Babylon
truvativ
two-step design
uncommit
vcc filtering
vincoline
wald-wolfowitz test
wall height
zooethology