时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课

1.New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is giving late-night comedians 1 plenty of material, but in political circles no one is laughing. The State Assembly leader says if Spitzer doesn't resign over a call-girl scandal, he is ready to call for an impeachment 2. Spitzer is holed up in his New York apartment.


 


2.Barack Obama and John McCain are the big winners in yesterday's Mississippi presidential primary. Obama won almost all the black vote but just a quarter of the white vote. He and Hillary Clinton are now focusing on the big delegate count in Pennsylvania where the primary is still six weeks away.


 


3.Andre Carson is the new Congressman 3 for Indiana. The grandson of the late Congresswoman Julia Carson won a special election to succeed her. Carson becomes only the second Muslim ever elected to Congress.


 


4.Dawn Wells is best known for playing Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island". But the proverbial girl next door is now on probation 4 in Idaho. She was allegedly caught with marijuana in her car when she was pulled over for erratic 5 driving last October.


 



n.喜剧演员,丑角( comedian的名词复数 )
  • The voice was rich, lordly, Harvardish, like all the boring radio comedians'imitations. 声音浑厚、威严,俨然是哈佛出身的气派,就跟无线电里所有的滑稽演员叫人已经听腻的模仿完全一样。 来自辞典例句
  • He distracted them by joking and imitating movie and radio comedians. 他用开玩笑的方法或者模仿电影及广播中的滑稽演员来对付他们。 来自辞典例句
n.弹劾;控告;怀疑
  • Impeachment is considered a drastic measure in the United States.在美国,弹劾被视为一种非常激烈的措施。
  • The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career.他遭弹劾后得到的判决毁了他的政治生涯。
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
n.缓刑(期),(以观后效的)察看;试用(期)
  • The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱,而且将他缓刑察看一年。
  • His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后,他的工资增加了800元。
adj.古怪的,反复无常的,不稳定的
  • The old man had always been cranky and erratic.那老头儿性情古怪,反复无常。
  • The erratic fluctuation of market prices is in consequence of unstable economy.经济波动致使市场物价忽起忽落。
学英语单词
-odont
adamantine layer
adjusting knob rear vision mirror
adjustment of fundamental constant
aerialtramway
all or nothing piece
andropogon citratus dc.
anti-achr antibody
arable farming
armed threat
automatic digital interchange system
aythya baeri
bachelor's dwelling unit
basic section
batteaux
benevolent dictator
bitamen
bought out
brodovitches
Brvniste
cartilaginus ossification
Chapeco
chicken-embyro-lethalorphan
coblation
consumption demand
convex fillet welding
cording plan
counterblow drop hammer
Crawfurdia angustata
criteria of seakeeping qualities
Cucurbita mixta
d.m.
danger-coefficient experiment
dexiomiops rufipes
direct indexing
Early Precambrian Era
El Puerto Santa Gertrudis
EM (emergency)
enzyme immunoassay
F.A.
flat clipping machine
forward clutch shaft
Franklinize
globards
gyrasphere crusher
halt
hand-fitting
Haysyn
hemangioblastomata
hermetic unit
holy-water sprinkle
hombre
honor trick
hydatina amplustre
index of group
instrument pledge
integral error
Itea yangchunensis
koolau range
laser protective housing
Latham
lobaria orientalis
macromere
mathematisable
method in all combinations
mislies
Moindi
muscular bud
Omoprostil
pib-corn
plane of bending moment
pocket moneys
pontoes
postage-stamps
postreproductive
predicatival
prospector
punicalagin
Pyrid-3-ylmethylnicotinate
ready-package
realler
requestee
rootstocks
ryvitas
salkin
second line of reserves
single-board computer
slide in chasis
Smooth waters run deep.
staff output
state-society
subread
sulings
superficial hardening
test tone deviation
tommies
towing carriage
vapor-bath
Wagner, Honus
weightfulness
yang ch'in