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. It was Day 2 for Defense 1 Secretary Robert Gates on Capitol Hill. ''We would probably have to be in Iraq to provide help of one kind or another to the Iraqis for quite some time.'' He was defending the president's new Iraq war strategy before the Senate Armed Services Committee.


2. The Pentagon has abandoned its time limit for citizen-soldier serving on active military duty. Until now, cumulative 2 duty time for Guard and Reserve troops serving in Iraq or Afghanistan couldn't exceed 24 months.


3. An anti-tank rocket hit the US embassy in Athens just before 6 a.m. local time this morning. There were no injuries and minimal 3 structural 4 damage.


4. And this child in Baltimore proved unimpressed with the ceremony for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Bored, this youngster took matters into his own hands or mouth.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. active duty: n-uncount
Someone who is on active duty is taking part in a war as a member of the armed forces. (mainly AM)
Active duty means the same as active service. (mainly BRIT)



n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
adj.累积的,渐增的
  • This drug has a cumulative effect.这种药有渐增的效力。
  • The benefits from eating fish are cumulative.吃鱼的好处要长期才能显现。
adj.尽可能少的,最小的
  • They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
  • I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家,所以我的花费很小。
adj.构造的,组织的,建筑(用)的
  • The storm caused no structural damage.风暴没有造成建筑结构方面的破坏。
  • The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities.北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。
学英语单词
afferent synapse
alternating bed
articles of expenditure
asdex
ax heads
axillary furrow
belon
Besnier's rheumatism
best do
butterfly cluster
cartridge tape
clutter rejection
cold-rolled carbon spring steel
copper glance
crack resistance curve
crims
cuckoo-bird
decoupled maximum worth rod
decrece
device interface module
disaggregative
DLC (data link control)
dot printers
eatjoint
ekonomikas
endodermal trichophytosis
endospermous
erasing speed
Ferro-picotite
FMCS
fovea pterygoidea processus articularis
gasoline engine
geminatio vocalium
general freight rate
General MIDI
genus limoniums
giordino
hora somni
hydroelectric bath therapy
income collected in advance
inductance potential divider
j. presper eckert
Kelsall
kilovoltampere
Lisabata
list of educational equipment
local governments
locker-gowlan
loope
manganous sulfate test
marly sandstone
maternize
mean time to detection
megaderms
melodist
missificating
mixed yttrium iron garnet
molecular beam type maser
moon bears
NDDO
nick-nacks
outboard mechanical seal
over printing
OWPCB
pacific alliance
partial correlation ratio
piping hot soup
postexercies
production programme
pumping process
Qudsi
radial reflex
rate of empty container
rayner refractometer
reticulum stage
rggi
Roegneria multiculmis
ror
routine calibration service
rr. glandulares (a. thyreoide? sup.)
saddle-bow
semibreve
set at the law naught
slipstreamed
small intestine obstruction
softwood plywood
soil-transmitted
spark preventer
star globe
straight-line path
supporting hyperplane algorithm
the trade press
third-party
titmouses
two-winged insects
Val Gal
vibrating reed frequency meter
virtual memory mechanism
warhammer
watering calender
what-the-hell
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