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
abandon yourself to
acromioclavicular dislocation
ACTRL
aldan plat.
alidade clamp
amber-tree
amblyoponine
ammonium cerium(iv) sulfate
articulose
bandage dress
be made of stone
because of love
BEL (bell character)
bench-grinder
Benevento
betime
Big Oil
blow it up
boost/glide vehicle
bosentan
brown banded cockroach
Butyl-3-methylpyrazine
caramel brake
catharometry
chemical seasoning
confolensite
Crespos
custom freezing of semen
Dadun
Dampier Land
defasciculation factor
denegatory
dibromophenol
difference limen difference test
douniam
drywell spray cooling pump
dual feasibility
endothoracic pectoral
Ershad
expenses for continued project
falotti
femaleless
fibrosis uteri
floppy disc cartidge
general switched telephone network
gudahl
harmodios
hydrometeorological glaciology
I am sorry
impulsive injection model
inthronizate
iridesced
iron cored type instrument
kathmann
labour force survey
lithosiderite
luggage and mail van
machree
malachite green agar
millisecond delay cap
monster hand
noplaceville
number of worm threads
nutritional roup
obstacle avoidance sonar
OPEC Agreement on Production Levels
organoleptic examination
palaeoecology
Parasenecio subglaber
pearlsides
phenylketonuric
phonarteriogra
pierced carving
pitryosporum
polymastiid
porsewe
postphenomenology
prepayment of tax
pride of Bolivia
pulsilogram
qattara
quantity-mark
re-forestations
re-purchasing
relative frequency approach to automatic indexing
restaurant-booking
retellings
retrievable
round arc point mesh gear
silver-ware
smiercase
solar space
spathic
straight pull
Sulfapyrazinmethoxine
technical economics of livestock husbandry
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act
Thiodictyon
undamaged side
underpan
unlathed
velocity of scanning