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. Illinois Senator Barack Obama is in Cedar 1 Rapids, Iowa, holding a town hall meeting just hours after officially announcing his candidacy for president. Obama made the announcement in Springfield, Illinois while there he talked about his life over the past two decades.


2. There's a new top American general in Iraq. This morning General David Petraeus officially took over from General George Casey. Petraeus says the mission there is winnable, but U.S. and Iraqi forces need to work together to end violence.


3. Residents in New York still get in new snow. More than 100 inches of snow has fallen in parts of Oswego County. Some residents are concerned about their roofs caving in. More snow is expected over the next two days.


4. Eighteen young pandas in China are leaving their mothers for the first time, heading today into a new outdoor environment. The move is expected to help the young pandas adapt to temperature, humidity and group living. They'll stay in the nursery until they are a year old.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. candidacy: noun
Someone's candidacy is their position of being a candidate in an election.


2. cave in: phrase
If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses 2 inwards.


3. move: n-count
A move is an action that you take in order to achieve something.



n.雪松,香柏(木)
  • The cedar was about five feet high and very shapely.那棵雪松约有五尺高,风姿优美。
  • She struck the snow from the branches of an old cedar with gray lichen.她把长有灰色地衣的老雪松树枝上的雪打了下来。
折叠( collapse的第三人称单数 ); 倒塌; 崩溃; (尤指工作劳累后)坐下
  • This bridge table collapses. 这张桥牌桌子能折叠。
  • Once Russia collapses, the last chance to stop Hitler will be gone. 一旦俄国垮台,抑止希特勒的最后机会就没有了。
学英语单词
3'-GMP
a poor snake
additional printed circuit
AIP - application infrastructure provider
Al Qā'īyah
angio-endothelioma
APWR(advanced pressurized water reactor)
autotherapies
Bacillus crassus sputigenus
batwing
be a mind to do something
Beflavit
bergamots
blackout lamp
boiling-curve hysteresis
Bridges, Harry
broeks
cargo delivery notice
chemonucleolysis
common business oriented language (cobol)
community of interests
constant potential rectifier
corticovisiceral
cryfests
decision - making body
dial system
diode-capacitor storage
dipentadecyl ketone
discounted payback period
Edie
edma
electric bell flat push button
endopolygeny
Etaples
Faserzeolith
filling wind
Flaville
florilenalin
full-rigger
gestaltists
getting a disease
ghanas
Goring
groving
helfgott
herborises
house finding agency
HPAIV
image ad
incompetent tribunal
incomprehending
input/output pulse
IPMSG
irrevisable
ischys
job fair
karlas
lever latch cap screw
limitingly
linearispiculatus
livication
long acting thyroid stimulator
lps
maastricht (maestricht)
management checks
memory reference subroutine
micro-chronometer
mirror stone
Morarano
musculus abdominalis
nosebleeders
ntbg
outlet velocity
ozzy
periproct plate
Polynesian
PPMW
pyroniobate
pyrrolidine carboxylic acid
Quibaxe
quotes
regular cardinal number
reserve for foreign exchange
ruled class
saponification agent
sea-risk
sereclimax
side piece
slide-wire bridge
special investigators
stand to gain
talk sb into sth
tandem bridge
teletext transmission
thumper source
tipping apparatus
under designed
voltage pulse
water power plant
welding distortion
with a capital A
zossen