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. A day to remember a civil rights great. In the nation's capital and Atlanta, hundreds turned out to honor Martin Luther King. The Atlanta History Center unveiled more than 600 of King's personal documents never before seen publicly. They include an early draft of his "I have a dream" speech.


2. A nasty winter storm has socked much of the country with icy roads and down trees. Officials blamed the weather for at least 36 deaths. President Bush declared a federal disaster for Oklahoma. Power's out across the state to tens of thousands of homes.


3. Two of Saddam Hussein's codefendants were executed this morning in Iraq, bringing more anger to Iraqi Sunnis. Saddam's half-brother was decapitated during the hanging, setting off protest across the country. The men were hanged two weeks after Saddam's execution.


4. National pride turned into a national fight at the Australian Open. Police say Serbian and Croatian fans began fighting on the opening day of the tennis tournament. Officers ejected more than 150 people. The Serbs claimed the Croats charged them first. Security will be tight when the Croatian and Serbian players do battle on day two.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. great : N-COUNT
Someone who is successful and famous for their actions, knowledge, or skill.


2. nasty : ADJ
A nasty problem or situation is very worrying and difficult to deal with.


3. sock : VERB
To hit or strike forcefully; punch.


4. decapitate : VERB
If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.


5. charge : VERB
If you charge towards someone or something, you move quickly and aggressively towards them.
He charged through the door to my mother's office.
...a charging bull.



学英语单词
additional constant
alkali resistant cement concrete flooring
anal plate
annealing deposit
array module
Ascaridoidea
axial-force
band-pass network
battery cells
Bekok
belt-type permanentmagnet separator
big-wig
black-out lamp
Blackstripe
books sort
brassish
Burgers vector
bushtits
capitalist democratization
carboxylesterase
clarence major
corah
counter insurgent
cutter reel
deducibility
disconsolate
disreputableness
double-layer interconnection
egg-laying spawning season
encarsia guadeloupae
Euproctis pseudoconsphersa
external shock diffusers
extesticulate
extrajection
geodesic latitude
give cause for
golden yearss
hail observing network
have a weak stomach
headgear
in-process
internal reticular apparatus
jisei
Kazumba
lagomorphic
lampad
leaf-mimicking fish
left avertence
life-cycles
line frequency generator
live roll
local dose rate
lorch
machine tool drive
mast fittings
moon pool
Mutnaya, Bukhta
nilpotent algebraic group
nitrogen carriers
non-producing well
nonfilling
nonsyndromic
opsoclonus
orange tips
orianna
paradoxicality
PCSP
phantom line
phomopsis morearum
piezoelectrometer
plasnosome
popular goods
preprinted insert
profile cavitation
pull switch
rambunctions
red-heeled
rose-colored pastors
sadkers
Saxifraga longshengensis
semipermeable membrance
side rafter
side window frame
single-entry bookkeeping
snap magnet
soup spoon
step-variable capacity cost
take the wraps off
tekkamaki
test gas
to refer
trestle-table
trimachy
true rolling bit
vampirologist
vandura
wage-packets
Walker Air Force Base
wannish
WTV
xeroxer