时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月


英语课

1. For the first time, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says he supports the idea of a second stimulus 1 package. The White House says President Bush is open to the idea of direct payments to Americans. Bernanke told Congress that the economy is likely to stay weak for several quarters.


 2. Republican John McCain told a crowd in Missouri not to count him out, even though Democrat 2 Barack Obama is ahead in the polls. McCain says the national media have written him off before and have been wrong. Obama began a two-day swing to Florida, which twice went for George W. Bush.


 3. A school bus carrying two dozen preschool children overturned in Newark, New Jersey 3. Officials say it doesn't look like anyone was seriously injured.


 4. Police charged an 89-year-old Ohio woman with petty theft after she refused to give back a neighbor's football that ended up in her yard. Edna Jester said she would have eventually given it back. Other neighbors say there has been an ongoing 4 dispute over where kids should and shouldn't be playing.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. count out:  phr v.


to decide that someone or something is not important or worth considering.


 2. write off:  phr v.


If you write someone or something off, you decide that they are unimportant or useless and that they are not worth further serious attention.


 3. petty crime:


a crime that is not serious, for example stealing things that are not very valuable.


 



n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
n.民主主义者,民主人士;民主党党员
  • The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
  • About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后,他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
adj.进行中的,前进的
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
学英语单词
.cpo
air raid reporting control ship
appassionated
automatic guide
bare thermocouple
Bolnhurst
built-in type reefer container
bunds
by pass vavle piston
carbon dioxide lamp
cartridge drive system
Casalfiumanese
catabolisms
champagne-and-caviar
circular arc angle of engagement
compliments of the season
consecrated
consumption ideology
contour of nasal tip
corba
counterhistory
crop coal
cross cap
D-D soil fumigant
death instincts
decommutation and readout system
deutero-globulose
Dichlorotrifluoropropane
die sinkers file
dolorously
drosophila (drosophila) silvata
dry milk
ectotunica
editing program
einstein model of solid
encephabol
epidermically
episeleno
Eumycophyta
fairyness
family demography
find out the truth
fujifilm
full-out position
fully-shaped collar
gelb
genus Venus
geometrically similar pump
graphic level recorder
gummers
ham(m)ada
hamell
hecto pascal (hpa)
Hoey
hypersexed
illuminati (rome)
injection locked oscillator
interrenal
Janet's tests
Kalenji
Küllstedt
land play
leading cadres
live-traps
local country
lock-sill
magnetic bubble detection
material delivered note
Mencal
meszaros
multiple start capability
newsgirls
no-decompression
orbital integrated flux
original insurance contract
Orizaban
packet driver
patchy adhesion
point lever
pottingers
proluton
quality control policies
rag day
rear loading vehicle
reclaim wasteland
river dance (sikkim)
shaft-packing leakage
Sibai
spoon-fed
stool examination
study authorizing provider
swinging-arm rod
tartakovsky
telebureaux
the Charity Shield
transthiolations
Trichonymph
trip rate
turbidimetric test
vibronic
yorkshire tweed
zone of rejuvenation