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. The day started on Wall Street with the Dow Jones industrials sliding two days after a huge stock drop that was spurred by declines in overseas markets like Asia.


2. A hard landing for a U.S. army helicopter in Iraq, injuring both crew members. The military says it appears the chopper had a mechanical problem.


3. Arizona Senator John McCain says he is running for president, making the announcement on the Late Show with David Letterman. He'll make an official announcement later after visiting troops in Iraq.


4. Own a midsize car? Don't count on the bumper 1 to hold up during a low-speed collision. And that fender-bender could be costly 2. In new tests, most models had expensive damage totaling in the thousands of dollars.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. slide: verb
If currencies or prices slide, they gradually become worse or lower n value. (JOURNALISM)


2. midsize: adj.
You can use midsized or midsize to describe products, cities, companies and other things that are neither large nor small.


3. fender-bender: n-count
A fender-bender is a collision involving motor vehicles that results in minor 3 damage. (INFORMAL)


4. total: verb
If several numbers or things total a certain figure, that figure is the total of al the numbers or all the things.



n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
学英语单词
abdominal constriction
act in pais
actively
adiabatic optics
adjusted cost basis
after midnight
air freight list
allyl-
aminopterin
annelet
anxious expression
arcanist
asks out
avalanche characteristic
back-plate
Bagrut
Bang Pakong
Barbazan-Debat
benzylpenicillins
bouth
Briggsia pinfaensis
builds up
Central German
cervical adenitis
code swich
colonizations
contrast variation
coordination effect
Correnti, I.delle
crtyl
deep underwater nuclear counter
dislocation of hip joint
disruption potential
distance instruction
dose-response correlation
easy monetary position
enterolobiums
farmings
forpained
friendship stores
gender changer
genital recess
geoeconomics
Greetham
haemolyse
hibernate mode
higher-powereds
Hybanthus enneaspermus
iesc
immunizator
insulinogenic
intersection delay
kiloliter(kl)
Libertad, I.
lighter insurance
Long, Nam
maculoanesthetic leprosy
manganesium
marijuanaholic
meconate
mercurammonium
messing around
moment to trim one inch
naphthyl-aminosulfonic acid
net positive suction
non-bank financial institutions
nongeriatric
Odesa
off my onion
Osler's nodes
practisement
pretreatment of raw coal
psalmodic
pulse meter
read-only storage
reflected rear view
resource group
retarded oil-well cement
Rhamnus californica Eschs.
rock gardens
rolling-wheel taker
round shank
run-off feeder
self-checking numeral
series electron
since yesterday
skirt the coast
Spanon
substitute community
sugar yield
taxillus lonicerifolius lonicerifolius
Thessalalon
thyroid scan
tip the beam
topographic barrier
TV jeep
twig brush
unedited format
value oneself
vcp
wedding chest
Wemyss