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
abseys
adjustment tax
affodills
agricultural disaster indemnity
analyse
Anton Piller order
arshads
Bacillus satellitus
bandra-kurla
batch-type furnace
benzoyllactic acid
beta-position
bottom pouring stopper ladle
cake adhesive retention meter
canonical account
catchwork irrigation
clutchness
contacto
control objective
crape-fish
crew change vessel
demakes
dentelure
digital display dividing head
dissatisfyingness
Dnister(Dniester)
door hanger
drop shipped
eminent-domain
epitaphers
Eugenia corynantha
exhorbitant
existing bridge
fixed spacing
from sea to shining sea
G. W. R.
geodynamic pressure
germ-freest
grain growth coarsing
henestrosa
highboard
Houssay phenomenon
in the northwest
indefatigable
inverse of a number
jezzle
kiddy table
kinship relationship
knaggy wood
lamine
lane direction control signal
lanoline grease
laser distance meter
lateral pressure coefficient
lexical functional grammar
load sensing system
mathematic subroutine
miles-per-hour
modal verbs
modern technological esthetics
moving-picture shows
oil-shale
Olmsted
orter
palmitoyltransferase
pension neurosis
Phyllostomid
pigeon eggs
positively oriented curve
potassium hydrogen phosphate
pulse charging
qpis
radio climatology
rangelands
rank one correction (roc) method
recovering tank
redrill
resistance to wear and tear
river dolphins
rogersite ( (1)lausenite)
scotistic
shatins
slow closure type valve
socket 2
soft nose plate
string up
subconjunctival ecchymosis
super-large-scale integration
superconductive chopper
szemaoensis
theory of estimation
tonta
Trigonotis delicatula
turbo-charger
tympanic neurectomy
variable geometry combustor
Velikiy Dvor
virches
virgin intensity
wood type
word accent
X-ray energy