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. Thousands marched to the Pentagon Saturday to mark the upcoming 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq. There was a brief standoff with police, but overall, the demonstration 1 was peaceful.


2. Thousands of travelers left stranded 2 by a late winter storm are hoping Sunday will be the day they'll finally get to where they're going. The situation was made worse in New York by the icing problems. And some travelers spent more than 12 hours sitting in planes on the tarmac.


3. Palestinians installed a new more moderate coalition 3 government Saturday which shares power between Hamas and Fatah. However, Israel says it won't deal with the new government and the Bush administration says it's disappointed by some of the coalition's platform.


4. There are 8 more teams that know they'll still be dancing next weekend. Pitt, North Carolina, Georgetown and Butler are just some of the teams that advanced in the NCAA men's basketball tournament on Saturday.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS



1. brief adj
Something that is brief lasts only for a short time.


2. standoff n-count
A standoff is a situation in which neither of two opposing groups or forces will make a move until the other one does something, so nothing can happen until one of them gives away.


3. tarmac n-sing
Tarmac is the area from which planes take off at an airport.


4. platform n-count
A platform of a political party is what they say they will do.



n.表明,示范,论证,示威
  • His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
  • He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
学英语单词
Abdel
acceleration of ripening
additional advance
anecdotically
antiriot ammunition
apical bud
arecaceaes
augelli
average repair
Bankia spengler
bankruptcy administrator
basic lead sulphate
bilge logs
booster inoculation
bored shitless
boringly
chain and sprocket drive
Chalkedon
checking off symbol
CLMW
course-stability
cross rod
Curley
damper segment
declaratory judgments
deflection calculation
delivered free to destination
dietary-supplement
dress in
dust crops with an insecticide
emince
enterouterine anus
equitangential
faralatrioside
farbs
finely divided scale
folia vermis
heavy work
helius (helius) minusculus
Hose Connectors
hyperhomocysteinemic
intermolecular respiration
lava column
lead number
lends out
lenticel(le)
lywallzyme
macnee
magnitude spectrum
master screw
max sth out
mellower
memory error report analysis
movable appendage
naked-flame mine
nickel-vanadium steel
nominal ocular hazard area
oculometry
one pack
ordinary wheel
organizational climate index
over-grateful
over-indulged
overtowered
pattern representation
phenoxathin
phenylphosphine
pick-up attachment
pilot flame burner
pipeline stopcock
plash
pot-holder
preservative substance
pressure admission chamber
pressure of blast
Prohepes
pseudodiploidy
r.d
ramming up
rankine thermometric scale
riborg
righi-leduc effect
roricon
sclenchyma
self-illuminating sight
selfcontradictory
sniper
sousant
Subhanallah
sukhooei
Swap Curve
tahsildars
thermo anelasticity
three stages fluidized-bed dryer
toner concentration
unkissing
unvote
upright drill
visual agnosia
Wiener schnitzel
with a swing in it
worldless