时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月


英语课

1. The White House says it's very close to a decision on how to help the troubled US auto 1 industry. But the Bush administration didn't provide any details or even a timetable on when an announcement would be made. One option being considered is a managed bankruptcy 2.


2. Meantime, President-elect Barack Obama says a good portion of the nation's economic troubles can be blamed on government regulators who “dropped the ball”. Obama also named three veteran regulators to help clean up financial debacles.


3. The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush is asking for a pardon. The correspondent could face two years behind bars for insulting a foreign leader.


4. The New York Yankees have finalized 3 their contracts with free-agent pitchers 4 CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett. Sabathia is getting a record $161 million, seven-year contract and Burnett is getting an $82.5 million, five-year deal.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. drop the ball: (AM,informal)


to make a mistake, especially by doing something in a stupid or careless way.


2. debacle: n.


an event or situation that is a complete failure


3. pardon: n.


an official order allowing someone who has been found guilty of a crime to go free without being punished


4. free-agent:


A free-agent professional athlete is free to sign a contract with any team.


 



n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
vt.完成(finalize的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • The draft of this article has been finalized [done]. 这篇文章已经定稿。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The draft was revised several times before it was finalized. 稿子几经删改才定下来。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
大水罐( pitcher的名词复数 )
  • Over the next five years, he became one of the greatest pitchers in baseball. 在接下来的5年时间里,他成为了最了不起的棒球投手之一。
  • Why he probably won't: Pitchers on also-rans can win the award. 为什麽不是他得奖:投手在失败的球队可以赢得赛扬奖。
学英语单词
abreuvoir
accom-plished
acid battery
acid-proof refractory
adnascens
agglutinophore
anchor plant
Bagaroua
baggy top
be under an embargo
bismuth phenolate
Brassica juncea
bronch-
bushs
carpropamid
cartier.com
chloroethyl mercury
clorida japonica
computer and cyber law
conspicuous consumption
control computer interface
data-transmission trap
de-aired clay
design of holding characters in both hands
discharging machine
disgraciately
disharmonious
Drabovka
e-sports
Elephant and Castle
embasement
feudal lordship
Ficus concinna
fire a salute
flight readiness review
flowers of tan
for altogether
forbidden or prohibited act
germ rice
Gestalt, gestalten
glut with
grillos
grounded shield transformator
harmonic field
heat conservation
high-rate discharge tester
horizontal cleavage
hot rolling facilitis
huork
hyperbolic grading
idiogeosyncline
inshurance
interrupting rating of circuit breaker
killing zones
knives linear
left-clicks
lucentamycin
membranous part of urethra
monolepta signata
moringua abbreviata
muck garden
musculus obliquus internus
National Society for Clean Air
noise monitoring unit
overnice
packer setting depth
pauper labor
phosphindolizine
photographic waste
pitting initiation potential
Pleospongia
presanction
qingming
quintuplicating
Ranunculus platyspermus
reciprocal temperature
reconciliation of bank account
recorder jar
recursion relation
retention period
RScP
ruh
satellite temperature
sectio Porro caesarea
self reducing
shiplines
signal rod
slandereth
statistical pattern recognition
tangiwai (bowenite)
tuberculin precipitation
two-flank rolling test
unanalysed
unpossibilities
up-link
veil-
vicarious atonement
wall bore machine
width girth
Wiedemann effect
Yuanlin Township
zone-refined material