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. Eight children and one adult are dead after a fire tore through a three-storey house in the Bronx. The victims were all relatives who immigrated 1 to the U.S. from West Africa. The fire has been blamed on a space heater or an overloaded 2 power strip.


2. House Democrats 3 want a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal 4 from Iraq. The plan would require all combat troops to be out of Iraq by fall of next year.


3. Police say two baggage handlers at the Orlando airport brought a bag containing guns and drugs onto a plane bound for Puerto Rico. The men used their airport identification cards to bypass security screeners. Authorities arrested one of the men in Puerto Rico, the second in Florida.


4. An 840-pound Mexican man has left his home for the first time in five years. Manuel Uribe was rolled through the streets of Monterrey, Mexico on an iron bed with wheels as a crowd cheered him on. Uribe's outing was a celebration of his nearly 400-pound weight loss.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. cheer on: phrase
When you cheer someone on, you shout loudly in order to encourage them, for example when they are taking part in a game.



v.移入( immigrate的过去式和过去分词 );移民
  • He immigrated from Ulster in 1848. 他1848年从阿尔斯特移民到这里。 来自辞典例句
  • Many Pakistanis have immigrated to Britain. 许多巴基斯坦人移居到了英国。 来自辞典例句
a.超载的,超负荷的
  • He's overloaded with responsibilities. 他担负的责任过多。
  • She has overloaded her schedule with work, study, and family responsibilities. 她的日程表上排满了工作、学习、家务等,使自己负担过重。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.取回,提款;撤退,撤军;收回,撤销
  • The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
  • They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
学英语单词
0798
abscisins
adult-only
Allen, L.
amelodental junction
autoplacement
B share, B stock
background radiation intensity
Benjamite
benzoyl radical
biovision
Cabracao
campingaz
Catawba River
cerebral angiospasm
commonfolk
communication search light
compass torque motor
coral heights
cutaneous needle therapy
d'no
definite purpose relay
designated survivor
differential mapping
dipping resin
direct-cycle plant
disseated
disturbed ice
dovetail slot
dynamic simultaneous equations models
dysadaptation
echinate
Echinometridae
emblemish
EMD-46217
endo-urethral
engine structural integrity program
equipment for noise reduction
ethynol
exochorial pregnancy
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
flanking sequence
germarite (hypersthene)
grooving tool
healthierer
huffco
hypodermalia
inferior lateral brachial cutaneous nerve
inhabit
initial grain temperature
inspirium
jaundices
kjelsasite
life cycle analysis
lifelogged
lochial stain
lowenfield
macroalicycloalkane
many a student
membrane curing
micro routine
misoneisms
Mǎxineni
nasal groove
non-storage space
nurcu
pass course
pay one's college
pedetids
pennants
perspective chart
physical geographical maps
phytochemistries
platinum-iridium
plug in
POETS day
policy recommendations
produquimica
Prosopis glandulosa
put into action
ramped landing craft
reel of tape
reprecipitated
request for next message
roller digital indicator
sequence of cross cuts
Shi'a-centric
shunt valve
splicing machine
spray wall tank
Springdale
SSED
stationary tailstock center
summer-pruned shoots
trial lenses
turn round
uncategorised
ventilation pressure map
Veronica anagallis-aquatica
wachers
yclept
zu'ama