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. Multiple attacks kill 15 US troops in Iraq. Five died in a single roadside bombing in Baghdad. Elsewhere, a suicide truck bomber 1 hit City Hall in a predominantly Sunni area of northern Iraq, killing 2 at least 16 people and wounding 67 others.

2. In Austin, Texas, police are backing off their initial descriptions that a mob beat a man to death after a child was hurt by a car. Police say they are now looking for only a handful of suspects.

3. Bad weather near the Kennedy Space Center is keeping space shuttle Atlantis off the ground. Skipping two landing opportunities, it has more landing chances in the coming days.

4. And high above Time Square in New York City, this ultra marathoner is hoping to break a world record for the longest treadmill 3 run in 24 hours. That current record almost 154 miles.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. predominantly:
mostly or mainly

2. back off:
to stop supporting something, or decide not to do something you were planning to do

3. treadmill:
a piece of exercise equipment that has a large belt around a set of wheels, that you can walk or run on while staying in the same place


n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
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。
n.踏车;单调的工作
  • The treadmill has a heart rate monitor.跑步机上有个脉搏监视器。
  • Drugs remove man from the treadmill of routine.药物可以使人摆脱日常单调的工作带来的疲劳。
学英语单词
a big card
adultering
aligning torque stiffness
Ankofa
argentaffin fiber
automatically erected manned satellite laboratory
bacteroidaceaes
bellises
boldins
bouillon culture solution
bransby
bullheads
business saving
cevitamic acid
chartered property and casualty underwriter
chronicization
closed complex
cold gas system
combination motor
communicational cohesion
concave shapes
condition information
contra wire (Eureka wire)
copper -lead alloy
dacrya
DCaaS
decimal computer
decipheress
deculturates
defoamers
degrading network
denville
dinner bell
echelle spectroscope
elbow fitting
electrothermal rocket
elegance, elegancies
Elek plate
ethicless
exponential flow
ferruginous ducks
film equipment
first generation image
flash fuels
funny-looking
gage slacking
gasoline lead additive
haymarkets
helepolises
improving acuity of vision and removing nebula
incision of septum of vagina
interconnection simulation
Kazantsevo
lawrences
Lazarist
low altitude orbit
market basket
Maxwell's fish-eye
medium size computer
merus
mGal, mgal
microphone stand
mysophobe
natural mutation rate
newlog
nucleaction
offer of settlement rules
oil jacket
Oldenlandia diffusa
ottos
peprotech
production of tree grammar
proneurotensin
racomitrium lanuginosum
remote control lever
revenue sharing
Road-curve
Santiago Astata
sauna-like
self-demagnetization effect of tape
semen chaulmoograe
ship radio officer
Sinomanglietia glauca
soil contact
spade lugs
spark igniter
spectacles frame
sub-provinces
sublimating ablative compound
swic
take comfort
terroristic
thermally perfect gas
thoracography
tokers
total step method
travelgate
tribromoacetaldehyde
unfraternally
yin fever
Ypresian Age
zinc aluminium alloy spraying