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. Millions of Americans on the go this Memorial Day weekend are taking a hit at the gas pumps. Gas prices are above the 3.20 level. However, experts say so far the prices aren't preventing a majority of Americans from traveling.


2. School children have been evacuated 1 from this Phoenix 2 school after a body was found in an air conditioning duct above the cafeteria. The body was found after officials noticed a foul 3 smell in the building.


3. A Beijing-bound United Airlines 747 is safely on the ground after an apparent engine problem prompted the crew to return to Dulles. Officials say flames reportedly were coming from one of the engines after takeoff.


4. Those wanting to get a glimpse of Rosie O'Donnell shouldn't look for her on "The View." ABC says the outspoken 4 co-host will not come back for her final few weeks on the daytime talk show, following her angry confrontation 5 with co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck earlier in the week.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. duct: n-count
A duct is a pipe, tube, or channel which carries a liquid or gas.


2. outspoken: adj.
Someone who is outspoken gives their opinions about things openly and honestly, even if they are likely to shock or offend people.



撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
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。
adj.污秽的;邪恶的;v.弄脏;妨害;犯规;n.犯规
  • Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
  • What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气!
adj.直言无讳的,坦率的,坦白无隐的
  • He was outspoken in his criticism.他在批评中直言不讳。
  • She is an outspoken critic of the school system in this city.她是这座城市里学校制度的坦率的批评者。
n.对抗,对峙,冲突
  • We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
  • After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后,他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。
学英语单词
accessibility information
accessory flexor muscle
agglutinating
air-to-glass transition
Alpine hats
ambly-
AMDG
angle-off
animatest
antiamnion antiserum
appels
ben davis pt.
bypass cock
cell - mediated immune response
centrifugal storage pump
ceramic superconductor
colic vein
concitizens
core-periphery model
corpus spongiosum
cosmogenic nuclide
country inn
crosstables
cylinder yankee machine
daftar
davy joness
deprotecting
directly-heated thermistor
dogies
domestic gas appliance
drlove
entraped penetrant
feed(water)pump
file utilization
fine pearlite structure
flexible-metal roofing
flying fortress, Flying Fortress
freeze onto
Fresnel region
Functional keys
genus Chiton
gib and cother
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
grifta
head-pan
in-and-out movement
integral algebraic number
Kaukkwè Hills
line interiace
Margherita Peak
multi-dimensional code
multi-spindle borer
naphthalene halide
non-thought
O/E
open kettle method
paper dispenser
parallel course
participative government
peach girl
percussive stress
peristerion
plain-table
pluck at the chance
PORP
production resource
prown
pseudovertigo
psychophysicist
quasi-spherical
quiz program
relishingly
rhinomaxillary
S. & G.
satellite-acoustics integrated positioning system
schifano
scriked
self docking dock
severances
shirred fabric
shockablest
single quill
slaty clay
Southern Pacific Steamship Line
spoke out
spoliaopima
stagnation point movement
stuffed cabbage
sub-10 nm pattern
super coil
tax clinic
telefonos
testis convoluted tubule
Thalattosuchia
there's no time like the present
Tower Point
tschebyscheff inequality
tyld
unsymmetrical flower
uridine diphosphate glucuronic acid
wheese
wild trajectory