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. Churches around Virginia Tech were packed Sunday as students and residents turned to the pulpit for guidance and reassurance 1. Classes are set to resume at the university Monday, a full week after 32 people were killed by a gunman.


2. An air show in Beaufort, South Carolina started today with a somber 2 tribute to a pilot killed Saturday while performing there. The pilot was a member of the Navy's elite 3 Blue Angels. Investigators 4 say it could take several weeks to determine what caused the crash.


3. It appears voters in France have narrowed down the field of presidential candidates to two. Projections 5 from polls on Sunday show Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist 6 Segolene Royal leading the 12 contender field. If this hold, they'll both advance to a May runoff.


4. In rural Georgia, black and white high school students are coming together for prom for the first time. Turner County High School held its first integrated prom Saturday.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. pulpit: n-count
A pulpit is a small raised platform with a rail or barrier around it in a church, where a member of the clergy 7 stands to speak.


2. somber: adj
If someone is somber, they are serious or sad.
=sombre


3. narrow down: phrase
If you narrow down a range of things, you reduce the number of things included in it.


4. runoff: n-count
A runoff is an extra vote or contest which is held in order to decide the winner of an election or competition because no one has yet clearly won.


5. prom: n-count
A prom is a formal dance at a school or college which is usually held at the end of academic year.



n.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • He drew reassurance from the enthusiastic applause.热烈的掌声使他获得了信心。
  • Reassurance is especially critical when it comes to military activities.消除疑虑在军事活动方面尤为关键。
adj.昏暗的,阴天的,阴森的,忧郁的
  • He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
  • His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。
n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的
  • The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
  • We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
预测( projection的名词复数 ); 投影; 投掷; 突起物
  • Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
  • The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。
n.社会主义者;adj.社会主义的
  • China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家,也是一个发展中国家。
  • His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。
n.[总称]牧师,神职人员
  • I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望,我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
  • All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。
学英语单词
access privilege
after deck house
albach
alkali resistant cement concrete flooring
allowable steering error
analyticality
Andromeda galaxy
auxin
Babcock-Levy test
be fast stuck in the mire of
biofunctionability
books of deuteronomy
bore to tear
bottones
branch always command
Bronllys
building property title certificate
caravelle
Certificate of Measurement andor Weight
checkovers
cloakings
cloth print
collecting pipe
commander psychology
cylindrical lathe cutting
deris
diffraction fringe
druick
dry astringent eye
dwarf chinkapin oaks
dynamical symmetry
extensive structure models
fa las
flange hub
flysch formation
foot mat
free-standing insert
from the very nature of the case
full depth welding
full-blown
general-purpose instruction
Godavari River
greenblatts
group center exchange
heave a sign of relief
high sticks
hold brief for sb.
immunocomplex
instant picture
jibber
juvenscence
Knobby Hd.
Kriti, Nisos
labilest
lands on
lechwallen (sweden)
london-area
long-vowels
magnetic force driving pump
Mascarene Is.
metiazic acid
millfield
Mogor Hal
N-acetylgalactosamine dipho-sphouridine
nervus radialis
noise shielding
non-convertible bond
nonflow system
order Pezizales
path attenuation
pay the Cain
Peninga
phonosemantically
piercel
pineal body
powters
product mix problem
purple fringeless orchids
rate of flow of kinetic energy
resident status
ribin
self-purification of waters
service path
shared batch area
silk market
Sisoazcini
solar cell support
spiral tungsten cable
squaimous
stabber
standard output function
Sugru
sulfur coal
super juice extractor
Tamarix juniperina
texturable
track radar
Ubisch body
unself-consciously
vertical off-normal spring
vortigern
white-knuckles