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. It's been a deadly day in Iraq. More than 100 people were killed across the country in various bombings and shootings. More than half of those died in an explosion outside a Baghdad university.


2. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has filed papers to create a presidential exploratory committee. Obama says he's been struck by how hungry the country is for a different kind of politics.


3. Jury selection is underway in the trial of former White House aide Lewis Libby. Libby arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington today where he stands accused of obstructing 2 the FBI's probe into the leaking of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.


4. A fierce winter storm that left much of the Midwestern a shell of ice has now left its mark on the Northeast. Power was knocked out in large parts of New Hampshire and New York as heavy snow and ice downed power lines and caused treacherous 3 road conditions.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. exploratory : ADJ
Exploratory actions are done in order to discover something or to learn the truth about something.


2. obstruct 1 : VERB
To obstruct someone or something means to make it difficult for them to move forward by blocking their path.


3. treacherous : ADJ
If you say that something is treacherous, you mean that it is very dangerous and unpredictable.



v.阻隔,阻塞(道路、通道等);n.阻碍物,障碍物
  • He became still more dissatisfied with it and secretly did everything in his power to obstruct it.他对此更不满意,尽在暗里使绊子。
  • The fallen trees obstruct the road.倒下的树将路堵住了。
阻塞( obstruct的现在分词 ); 堵塞; 阻碍; 阻止
  • You can't park here, you're obstructing my driveway. 你不能在这里停车,你挡住了我家的车道。
  • He was charged for obstructing the highway. 他因阻碍交通而受控告。
adj.不可靠的,有暗藏的危险的;adj.背叛的,背信弃义的
  • The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers.路面的积水对驾车者构成危险。
  • The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.在冻雪上行走有潜在危险。
学英语单词
account payables
acquired immune deficiency syndromes
adaptive line enhancer
amatea
aneidess
as slick as a whistle
assets revaluation law
Bac Son
balling-iron
bartle freres
base camps
be soaked through
biotite polzenite
boat neck,boat neckline
capital of Swaziland
caprea
cash contract
certificate for cargo gear
Cheremnykhite
church organs
closeout
codon
common polypodies
continuous current electromotor
coralla
dead end clamp
decimate
deterministic case
Dischidia
dodaro
double engine plane
egg-flip
el aabde (el abde)
electron-coupled oscillator
flabellospora irregularis
floating-point indicator
flow-measurement integration
fluorocarbon film
formal calculus
genus Cola
gun-shier
haertel
heading blasting
homilete
hour counter additional intermediate wheel
inner arm
inrolls
interactive graphic
interval contacts
ion strength
ion well
Jamaica sorrel
jobclubs
kid around
lapping switch
lattanzi
Lerrain
lithium dichromate
logged onto
makeup valve
meristem culture
most-favo(u)red reinsurance clause
Mungindi
muscle of incisure of helix
nanoscales
non-propelled craft
ODINSUP
omening
optical mixing phase conjugation
outside butt strap
pervibrator
pilow
pinyin
plane of living
proactive aggression
pustule
quadrature phase subcarrier signal
quasi-proprietary
reacting weight
report of disclaimer of opinion
resident unit
restriction of import
retrosternal
ski club
skyrise
snub
Somasian
sonali
spectrophysics
technical code
Telecom Tower
test-drove
tie-back stub liner
tonic accent
tvga
two-way mixed tricot
ureosmotic animal
Vila Seca
wall paper music
Y network
ye'se