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
acoustic coupling element
adhesive plaster
aerospike
amaigamate
anhydrous-hydrazine fuel
approval sale
base circle of cam
basic tolerance
be devoured by sth
belt lacings
black Indian hemp
bottom face
Brachygnatha
brake shoe return spring
cake kidney
carbon-hydrogen
change-over lever
child-support
Chromoxane
complete set of bills of lading
copper(i) tartrate
Crabtown
damping arrangement
definite kidney
dichromatic space group
doorsteppers
douchebaggeries
dunch
eccentric float chamber
ecological pressure
electrodynamic cutter head
electromagnetic disturbance characteristic
eosinophiles
experimental variables
final money
functional electronic block
globeflower
Gorokhovskaya
grave's
guiding principles
Hale County
heat flow density
heisenbug
herefore
hogged
horizontal cordon
ichthyootoxin
inscriptioned
internally manifolded heat exchanger (imhex)
keep ... nose clean
keep up with the Joneses
kewler
loop-around test
loudspeaker face telephone
low energy resonance
matching member
maximum starting current
mechanicalness opening
memory control logic
Myanga
naematolin
nemean gamess
optical fuze
optimum designing of engineering structure
page boundary
passive leader
plastomes
predefined specification
pressure decatizing
price wars
principal sum secured by a mortgage
pringleite
proviridomycin
quantifizable function
radioactive nitrogen
ratio-trend forecasting
reaction component
reduction of dividend
responsibility report
rsultats
scope of works
silicon carbide bonded graphite
sovereigntists
sparring partner
specific speed
spring-loaded quilled type indirect pilot
switch core
sysers
tank lid
tazel
tension plate lock-up
thermite reaction
transmit-buffer-empty
trend comparison
two beam interferometry
Vestiaria
Watansopeng
water age
wire spooling machine
yello
zero buoyancy
zoie