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
adenography
aggerations
allite
arm load
arvad
atitlan
ballast unloader
band overlap energy
banjosid
barkis
call options
calliostoma unicum
ceroplastes floridensis
CFS to Door Service
character stuffing
combinatorial manifold
complementary wavelength
conduction sensitivity measurement
conflicting subgoal
contactite
counter-motion
coversine
cream teas
dead-(and)-alive
durban (port natal)
electronic / electric governor
epicentre
external mirror
factorion
flavine lake
flavone dyes
forming stress
fugillin
ghostly father
Green Mountain Boys
grid navigation
ground supply socket
Haurvatat
hazard model
hemilaryngectomy
identick
inner layer of the wall of the pod
interstellar hydrogen
isotopic power
isthmns
jet viscometer
kale-
leave to one's own devices
liquidities
lo-cal
methyl trimethylacetate
microscope mirror
n.i.s.
naphthalaphos
net tractive effort
nonoriginalist
Ocrylate
oculopathy
overpsychologized
Palatrize
post-day
post-moulding operation
Powassan
pre-coordination
procryptic coloration
pseudoboletia indiana
rajihs
rear converter
relation of production
restitutionary remedy
RNMS
rohnert park
rough lock
rubarbative
score an own goal
scymnus (pullus) centralis
self destruct device
single instruction stream
single track vehicle
small-subunits
soul-to-soul
special education consultative committee
Stellaria graminea
storage access
storage medium
strikeout
subaclinal
super handsome
tempering bin
Ten Mile L.
the snp
the toilet of venus
thickness standard plate
titrimetric calorimeter
trinotatus
ultrasmooth
under-drawn
unlusthead
upper esophageal sphincter
victualers
water-level indicator
zophoessa dura neoclides