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
a. subclavia
acetyleuparotin
anteclassical
assembler expression
base catalysis
Beaumetz-lès-Loges
bidirectional counter(forward -back-ward counter)
burstworts
C-cores
cargo-carryings
character stroke
chemiglyphic
Chemung County
children recreation game
chipped edge
common millets
conjugate joints
convergent squint
Deccan Plateau
defense-budget
densu
dihydroxyanthraquinone
direct-fired heater
educational investment
elec trostatic accumulator
emergency unit
epdms
epiallopregnanolone
eshesiometer
estimated elapsed time
FBP
flapjacks
football team
forty-third
genklenes
grass temperature
gray spinal syndrome
group of coboundaries
haematomma puniceum
hanging case
hatch housing
He has been to Jericho.
hether
hyperperitonitis
hypertexture
immune deficiency syndrome (aids)
inconsederat
inherce
intercostal floor
isolating cock
jackson design method
Jardin des Plantes
Kholāpur
Kompong Thom, Khet
kublai
low angle normal fault
luminance edge
meat man
meson wave function
naias
namelessly
office lettering
over-kind
papillary cystadenoma lympho-matosum
parietal adversive field
pempheris oualensis
reasonable value
rejigged
remote antiquity
ribbon type radiator
robert emmet
sapropel-clay
serfliker
shoe-shine
six-leggedness
species structure
substring
sulphur bordeaux 3B
supercritical wing
superior official
surrender oneself to justice
swimmer's prurigo
syzygant
terra-cotta day
thun-hohensteins
tidal flood strength
titil
trpr
try sth for size
tunicae media oculi
tutory
Typhonium blumei
under-rehearsed
understocked
Unggi-gun
v.h.
vitreous ceramic fuel
water-rot
xerographic copier
Yung Shue Wan
yys
ZCS