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
A&C (arithmetic and controls)
aim high
arteriae transversa scapulae
artificial vaseline
AX (axis)
backcross hybrid
bad show
bending the rules
Beni-Ahsen
bertholle
bibos gauruss
big sticks
bioside
brakepress
Brockenhurst
cardigen
center ring
center temperature of fish
chebs
cityfied
color value
company sales with
deburring operation
deck covering plan
deoxyriboaldolase
Dependent Time Measuring Relay
direct clearing
dittman
emitter follower circuit
euler methods
euphotic belt
eutelsats
evolution mass
fusigobius maximus
genus Languas
geriatrist
gluiest
granulating hammer
gregarinosis
ground investigation
hackwatch
halftimber
handling hole
hemlock water dropworts
hravel ballast
ice-crystal
information load
Jaws-harps
JUNFET (junction-type field effect transistor)
kick-backs
knockout-pin
legis
length between draft marks
light meal
Liliatae
live cable test cap
local main process
logical I-O function
macrosymbiont
manufacturing engineer
merchandising plan
micro-detector
monoterpenoid
nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
naturally air cooled engine
nephelometric analysis
nonregional
osyll
over-flow rule
Paekmugowǒn
pediadontology
phenylpropiophenone
polyblepharia
poorly-paid
postmortem destruction
probabilistic testing
pulse telemetering method
quasi-sovereign
relieving shot
ribbon jasper
roarrrr
Sarpa, Ozero
sericiculturists
shealing
shift the responsibility onto someone
skill-based pay
slow march
spinning-machine
subconsole display
superlight
teeming aisle
telepelvimetry
tocks
tractions
trigger-point
unloaded radial wheel run-out
unslaughterable
vermillion
vestar
vitreous enamelling
vitto
wild oxen