时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


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1. President Bush is defending his decision to commute 1 a 30-month prison sentence for Lewis "Scooter" Libby. He's leaving open the possibility of a pardon, but insists Libby is not getting off scot-free.

2. Another terrorism suspect has been arrested in connection with the foiled terror plots in the UK. The 27-year-old doctor was arrested in Australia with a one-way ticket. He is the eighth suspect held in the case.

3. Tuberculosis 2 patient Andrew Speaker has a lesser 3 form of the disease than originally diagnosed. Federal officials have announced that the man who caused an international health scare is responding to medications. That means he has multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and not extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

4. Some folks in Spain may be feeling more relaxed. Psychologists armed a team of thirty stressed-out people with mallet 4s and hard hats and set them free inside a Madrid hotel. The goal? Let off some steam by trashing ten of the hotel's rooms as part of a refurbishment plan.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. commute: verb
to change the punishment given to a criminal to one that is less severe

2. scot-free:
completely free from obligation, harm, or penalty

3. stressed-out :
suffering from high levels of physical or especially psychological stress

4. mallet: N-COUNT
a hammer with a typically barrel-shaped head

5. let off stream:
to get rid of your anger, excitement, or energy in a way that does not harm anyone by doing something active

6. trash: transitive verb
to destroy something completely, either deliberately 5 or by using it too much

7. refurbishment:
the decoration and repair of something such as a building or office in order to improve its appearance


vi.乘车上下班;vt.减(刑);折合;n.上下班交通
  • I spend much less time on my commute to work now.我现在工作的往返时间要节省好多。
  • Most office workers commute from the suburbs.很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。
n.结核病,肺结核
  • People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
  • Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
adj.次要的,较小的;adv.较小地,较少地
  • Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
  • She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及,但程度较轻。
n.槌棒
  • He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。
  • The chairman rapped on the table twice with his mallet.主席用他的小木槌在桌上重敲了两下。
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
学英语单词
abdominal cavities
accelerator ZDMC
agrip
alginic acid
anacanthus
anti-bottom quark
arrested failure
associated emission
banderol, banderole
basic separating
basosexine
Belling saccharimeter
bepitying
Biassini
bitterweeds
cammaron
capital of Oklahoma
change-over channel steamer
charge-storage diode
chloralkaline
chlorobenzyl chloride
cholecystokinin (cck)
complemeent (darlington 1932)
correlation analysis method
countervailing
deformation loss
detectable effect
dimethyldihydroresorcinol
direct-current grid bias
distributed feedback
dyadic array
electronic shower
Elsholtzia hunanensis
filter editor
food and beverage expenses
footlongs
glass reinforced concrete glass
grant woods
harangue
heading per steering compass
herringbone pipe
hewsons
hinchleys
Holter system
incipient incision
incipient scorch
Incomati (Komati)
internal strapped block
isoolivil
laser-Raman spectrometry
laxogenin
leakage and drip
Lisfranc's tubercle
lobes
macgregor hatch cover
maximum colour acuity
medium irrigated emulsion
metachromatic bodies
Molatón
Morinville
nabzenil
negotiated meaning
nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor
non-americans
offspringless
organizatory
Otego
Over-allotment option
OWRS
Panax schin-seng Nees
Passengers Ships in Inland Waters
pastoral stage
pentetate
petersen sir elutriator
phase interchange rate
Polygonum patulum
pteroxygonum giraldii dammer et diels
rabelo
relieve stress
schwalb
scratch resistance
seat cover for vehicle
security option
seen with half an eye
self starter
sequential data structure
setting-out work
shapiro-wilk test
side by side display
superimposed preeclampsia
sweated joint
telocollinites
tendon lengthening
thermal radiation destruction distance
topological relation
total equity
ultraviolet dwarf
uredinology
Vilyuy
virtual volume
volumetrics
xanthohumol