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
administrative standard document
air rudder
al-askari
all wheel drive
anterior dichotomy
arcsine
argyrodes kumadai
atmospheric agitation
black tree fern
boom davit
canonical grammar
cerneys
cheesology
codonopsis pilosula nanfeldt
common low alloy structural steel
complementizers
concealed dovetail
continuity property
contracting brake
covergence
cpdt
dacso
dado rail
discus proligerous
drive someone spare
electrolysis dissolution
explosion proof machine
fat-tailed distribution
field ion transmission microscope
final data rapid processing
flue drier
foreign letter paper
form language protocol model
generating broaching
genus Digitaria
gill monogenean diseae
Girard, Stephen
Goszczanów
group socialization
hereditary psychic stigmata
hippocamelus bisukus
hydraulic excavation
I region
in seclusion
international accounting
intersubclass
juiceable
land replotting
lifehold
log well
Mahommetism
mainshaft 3rd speed gear roller
mau-maued
methoxiphenadrin
microwave position-fixing
mode shape slope
modern demography
Montenero di Bisaccia
multiannual storage plant
myeloarchitectonic
n.n.
navigate a bill through the parliament
noise monitor and control statistics
noncorporations
nonsulfur vulcanization
nurse's aide
oar-steerage
on ... hands and knees
parrella
perfect crystal
Phyllanthus sootepensis
plane-earth attenuation
quickwitted
rail creep
reprofessionalizing
resiles
Sandiara
shanghaied
shower roses
simple fault
snackle
speed governing characteristics
status checkout
Stephanian Age
stock velocity
sulfophile sequence
swolde
TCRA
times out of mind
to-tee
trajectory computation
trepanned
UGRR
use
utility maximization
V-type tail
vanpools
voltage regulated range
welcum
Wheatstone transmitter
winchman control panel
wire cable