时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课
1. Hurricane warnings for Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica as Hurricane Dean bears down on the Caribbean islands. Dean is about 175 miles south of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, moving to the west-northwest at about 17 miles an hour.

2. The big storm is also prompting changes in space. NASA is cutting short the spacewalk today for Endeavour astronauts. They're giving the crew time to pack up and get ready for a possible one-day early return to Kennedy Space Center.

3. Michael Deaver, one of President Reagan's closest advisers 1, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 69. A family statement says he died today at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. Deaver was convicted in 1987 on perjury 2 charges concerning his lobbying activities while at the White House.

4. After a month in rehabilitation 3, Bob the tortoise is home again. The 25-year-old pet had been tortured after he was stolen from his owner's yard on July 7th. For his first meal after having his feeding tube removed, Bob gobbled up hibiscus flowers and roses.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. bear down:
to move quickly towards a person or place in a threatening way

2. cut short:
to stop doing something earlier than you planned

3. pack up:
to put things into cases, bags etc ready for a trip somewhere

4. lobby: verb
to try to persuade the government or someone with political power that a law or situation should be changed

5. rehabilitation: noun
to help someone to live a healthy, useful, or active life again after they have been seriously ill or in prison


顾问,劝告者( adviser的名词复数 ); (指导大学新生学科问题等的)指导教授
  • a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
  • She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
n.伪证;伪证罪
  • You'll be punished if you procure the witness to commit perjury.如果你诱使证人作伪证,你要受罚的。
  • She appeared in court on a perjury charge.她因被指控做了伪证而出庭受审。
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
学英语单词
5-flurocytosine
a-tishoo
aeroaspiration
Appenweier
Asprimox
astronomical coordinate measuring instrument
atom shell
azzle-tooth
bofore bottom dead center
bowl
bracemate
chairholders
chilling rolls
Chinese gall aphid
colour comparator pyrometer
continued development
contractile fiber cells
creosote carbonate
daunsel
diametrical curve
do you have a girlfriend
East Berliners
embedded part of coil
euro-asian
excision of lipoma
fancy skip twill
friction unemployment
frontiers
gamma aminobutyric acids
gas discharge colour method
gateses
Gilson's solution
graphophones
grooved roll
high tide elevation
holding cooler
hydrogen system
hymens
inverting parametric device
irreversible magnetization
Kapala Batas
Katusa
keep one's promise
kelston
lay of cloth
libertyman
lluminated rocket
machine function
make you
maremusset
Masticho, Akra
memoirs of a geisha
merwomen
metho-
monomphalus
mud logging
Naro, Fiume
non-judgmental
nut mill
occidentality
off-line stroage
off-settings
Pediculus capitis
pentops
Phenaloin
plan development
polshe
Pordim
preferred shares
pseudoselerema
quasistatically
reflective materials
relentless
reload module
remercying
rodhocetus
safe investment rule
safe low power critical experiment reactor
sanidal
scabbardless
sea parrots
secondary air ratio
settelmier
shadow picture
slow-neutron chain reaction
spelter pot
stain sync
strata behaviors
subdiscipline
tender deadline
Thalictircine
thread take up lever stroke
tragulus javanicuss
valdivieso
Very pleased to meet you
what's popping?
wild dogs
wonderfest
working viscosity of fluid
xerophthalmia
zapato
zymology