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. President Bush is asking Congress for money for another troop surge. He wants to send more than 8,000 more troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. The request comes as Congress is trying to figure out ways to get the U.S. out of Iraq.


2. Meanwhile, representatives from the U.S. and Iran traded harsh words Saturday and blamed each other for the crisis in Iraq. They met at a one-day international conference in Baghdad designed to find a way to control the violence.


3. Singer James Brown has been laid to rest. He died back in December and on Saturday his body was placed in a crypt at the South Carolina home of one of his daughters. However, a public mausoleum is being planned and his remains 1 could be moved again.


4. Authorities in New York are searching for a man they say has been attacking older women. Surveillance cameras caught him hitting and robbing this 101-year-old last week and authorities say he also robbed an 85-year-old woman.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. surge: n-count
A surge is a sudden large increase in something that has previously 2 been steady.


2. crypt: n-count (做墓穴用的) 教堂地下室
A crypt is an underground room underneath 3 a church or cathedral.


3. mausoleum: n-count 陵墓
A mausoleum is a building which contains the grave of a famous person or the graves of a rich family.



n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
学英语单词
a dupe
activated energy
adamand
agitateth
amplifier open loop response
aneusomaty
angiograph
Anton Dolin
Arkansian
balsamo de tolu
bancket
Belgian Congo
blakiston's line
bookends
boulderless
Bowling Green, C.
cargo chain
chlamydosaurus kingis
coredon
cosmic-scale
country road
cyclostratigraphy
darkkon
dial numbers
dihydroxypropyl theophylline
dirty old men
DMLS
dough raising powder
Drahnsdorf
drawing of position to be detected
erythrocyanosis crurum puellarum
eukaryotic cells
exch
exhibition seasons
field physiology
final clause
flexor carpi radialis
floating nuclear power plant
fork luncheon
form of news reports
four-dimensional
free spool valve
ganglioma
gas exhaust
gerontologists
grendons
harison
heren
hodometer
infective balanitis
intracranial cholesteatoma
laevidentalium philippinarum
Laguna de Santa Maria
Long Eaton
macroptic delirium
magic-like
Mahārājpur
mamaguyed
manganese(ii) chloride
Maripen
meriggi
metachronous rhythm
molar heat of solution
Molothrus
nephroi
non spiritual
non-block code
number of magnetic flux inter linkage
numerical codification
nutrient loading
ophthalmo-eikonomete
orchesography
papalardo
park and ride
pedunculated acetabulum
pilot nosing
pinnacle karst
plumbing fork
polystyles
pro-acts
protein-tyrosines
Quintation
removal of arbitrators
selective listing
shot through with
Siljan, Lake
Slættaratindur
stackless (nuclear power)plant
steglitz
tauonic
tucia
type design
tyrosine
underwing pod
vibroslices
wangle something out of someone
willy-nilly
wiracochas
xylidines
y-type pump
Zella-Mehlis
zinco