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 House has approved the resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq. In the end, 17 Republicans joined Democrats 1 in favoring the non-binding resolution.


2. Anna Nicole Smith's will lists her longtime companion lawyer Howard K. Stern as executor. But it also leaves a lot of matters up in the air. For instance, the 2001 document leaves everything to her son who has since died and it does not mention her infant daughter.


3. Two people were killed today in a fiery 2 crash involving 3 tractor trailers along I-81 in North Carolina. The mid-morning accident near Raleigh forced officials to reroute traffic as they shut down the stretch of highway.


4. Here is a whale of a fish story for you. An aquarium 3 in Japan is now boasting 3 rare whale sharks. The fish are among the hardest to catch and keep in captivity 4.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. executor: n-count
An executor is someone whose name you write in your will when you want them to be responsible for dealing 5 with your affairs after your death. (LEGAL)


2. fiery: adj.
If you describe something as fiery, you mean that it is burning strongly or contains fire. (LITERY)



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》
adj.燃烧着的,火红的;暴躁的;激烈的
  • She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
  • His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。
n.水族馆,养鱼池,玻璃缸
  • The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium.我第一次看见海豹是在水族馆里。
  • I'm going to the aquarium with my parents this Sunday.这个星期天,我要和父母一起到水族馆去。
n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
学英语单词
alarm facilities
alpha axp 21164
American melting point
anti-hazard classification
antikaon
as warm as a toast
astern oil cylinder
basilyst
beaf
biflagellate
boofheaded
bromoalkenes
cellular polyethylene
centerpunching
cervical smears
cicatricial phase
coaxial feed
communest
conclusin
condition code examination
contraction cavity
conveyance of land
curative
Dalmatian wettability
Darakuyeh
dephonemicization
derisi
distribute bonuses out of profits
dressed tube
duricrust
dust collector for cupola
Economic earnings
electrical fitting
ex gratia payment
execution of work
fibre-film bundle
foundable
four-lane road
fresh peas cutler
gunungan
halticorcus ornatipennis
herpetology
highland-oak (quarcus wisliceni a. dc.)
immuno suppressivedrug
iodoacetates
isotoxic
jacket launching
karayannis
Konkanis
large econometric model
lilled
liver regeneration
mapping norm
melding
myurous
Ndembu
neophotonics
no half a bad fellow
off-budget deficit
order-disorder (phase) transition
orthodox seed
panegyrism
paper packing
parchment skin
peptide bond
Perfectly competitive financial markets
petrogenic grid
phase failure sensitive thermal-overload release
plaid squares
predictive maintenance
randall jarrells
readdicts
relay protection system
riant
riffier
sagewoman
sand kicker
santa barbara basin
Santa Susana
sentiency
sextyping
shambas
sheriff's picture frame
shoe-horned
silicon nitride fibre reinforcement
spool holder wire hinge screw
sulfocarbamide
support capacity
sweet-scented osmanthus
symbolic polynomial
TalkTalk
the living
thrashing floors
tigonin
type tests
Ultonian
Viola moupinensis
water-gas-tar creosote
wavells
WHC (Westinghouse Hanford Co.)
wind-rights
wissenlands