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
accept
aggregate average propensity to consume
albumimeter
angle control system
aponea
automatic moisture shutdown
auxiliary stake
banterer
barium-iodide
Be. No.
Bellewstown
bicrossproduct
british library method
catburglars
ceratium vultur sumatranum
cercospora gaultheriae
cholecystolithiases
conductivity tensor
conventional accounting
cooled maser
cross sectional area of the uncut chip
deep seeding
deep-field
dinitroethyl phenol
disimbitters
e-mail bombs
efferent lymphatic vessel
email software
Esameter
farthest
fatigue creep
feasible
forging method
free-ash coke
front pinacoid
funeral-residences
Gabil
generatrices
genus amarylliss
getting-ready
glowsing
graces of god
ground potential
high class joiners' work
HWLI
in re
in support of
in-phase yarn
insectile
intalio press
jack brick
kazakh
king begonis
line of quickest descent
Little-Spotted
lower return lower risk
magnetic retention
maladministrations
Manouane
medium alcohol
megascopic structure
metallic net
microcercous cercaria
morned
multiterminal system
N-1-naphthylbenzamidine
neodymium(element)
Ombai, Pulau
ordering heat treatment
original payee
palindrome (wilson & thomas 1944)
polarized light microscope
previou
pulsus bisferiens
Queen Elizabeth National Park
randanini
rear surface
Request denied
resident macrophage
resource plan
rigid-plastic material
rural proletariat
saver kelly
self respect
semi-uniformly continuous
sfm (space frequency modulation)
shrimp meat
signals-to-noise ratio
stroudings
subsystem design
sweet gales
syphilitic tophus
topside model
Tosasimizu
trash separator
trial steel work fixing
tubewells
uncoated oxide fuel particle
up the ass
upper die
vapor superheater
venae intercostalis suprema