时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月


英语课

1. Five Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted 1 for deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting are all decorated military veterans. The men are charged following the shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians 2 in a busy Baghdad intersection 3.


2. House and Senate staffers are spending the weekend drafting a deal that could give the US auto 4 industry some short-term help. Top auto executives had asked Congress for about 34 billion dollars. But the latest proposal would give the Big Three loans for less than half that amount, enough to tide them over while they restructure.


3. Senator John McCain says Pakistan understands it must take quick action against any terrorists connected to the Mumbai attacks that are living in the country. McCain has been visiting Pakistan and India as part of a regional tour with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.


4. And President George W. Bush got a look at how history will remember him, at least in one artist's view. Bush presided over the unveiling of his portrait at a private club in Philadelphia.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. decorate:


If someone is decorated, they are given a medal or other honour as an official reward for something that they have done.


2. tide over: phr v.


to help someone through a difficult period, especially by lending them money


3. preside over: phr v.


If you preside over a meeting or an event, you are in charge.


4. Blackwater Worldwide:


黑水国际(Blackwater Worldwide),原名美国黑水(Blackwater USA)是一家私人军事、安全顾问公司。由 Erik Prince 与 Al Clark 于1997年创立,公司总部位于美国的北卡罗来纳州。公司成立时只有6个人,911事件后,业务突飞猛进,从2002年到2005年,营业额增长了600倍。该公司在推广市场时自称是“全球最全面的专业军事、执法、安全、维持和平与稳定行动的公司”。它是美国在伊拉克与阿富汗的主要军事任务承包商(Military Contractor)


 



控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
n.交集,十字路口,交叉点;[计算机] 交集
  • There is a stop sign at an intersection.在交叉路口处有停车标志。
  • Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.桥用来避免铁路和公路直接交叉。
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
学英语单词
-teenth
angular motion
appointment-only
ash-greys
autocratic leader
automatic data processing systems
Ban Nong Yang
Bandwidth-on-demand
bare the metal
basilar membranae
bonnett
catalogable permanent file
cheek retractor
chloroethylaminoanthraquinones
classical-styles
closure of simplex
collective body
community residents
copius
coraebus aesopus
crummy
cystomyxoma
dispension
disproportionateness
distrbuted processing
electro-gas arc welding
excitaton source
exhibition expenditures
false myxoma
fear-stricken
fibre grease
firiming agent
fix things up
fluidized layer
forage for
fund levy
go on an outing
graphic kernel system
gravity spectrum
gravity tectonics
green cormorant
guilt-trip
heliocentric declination
heterodyne interference
high speed steel end mill
Igo
in one piece nozzle
income-expenditures
interpretation of dreams
island-dwellers
Knelston
laid lower
lead crown glass
Leo III
linen fiber
load up on sth
lyme-hound
make gains
manufacturer's rep
mechano-chemical system
medical diagnostic radiation
metallographs
Middleton Stoney
missel-bird
Mogogelo
noas
note to the accounts
number identification
off-colo(u)r product
oystered
pal(a)eohydrology
Palespotted
pasta rocket
pasteur pipet
permineralised
planetary landing
plant room
plumbaginaceous
pulsed lasers
re-taining part of the extra profit
reed sweep
Resia
ring-a-ring
screen scarifier
sewerage of separate system
site autonomy
taint-hook
take springs out from
testing of soil
tetrazoles
think no small bear of
Tolbukhinski Okrǔg
toona sureni(bl.)merr.
total color blindness
Tristars
wages fund
wooden bridge
written calculation
yeast-liked
zero-zero gel
zhishi xiebai guizhi decoction