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。
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air dielectric
aircraft-engine compatibility
annular striation
be master of
bottom-up system
Bukowo
Bupleurum chinense
cacophagy
carotid artery ligation
Chelicerata
complex transfer function
computational psychology
concrete quantity
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cream separation
croog
culture cell
dermedine
detach by
downer cow syndrome
dragon beams
Edward Cullen
environmental assessment technique
exonerate from
fakable
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formal mode
forward derivative
frisky
fur ball,furball
genus strepsiceross
godsey
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implosion protection band
inbond brick
initial(l)er
inverted echo sounder
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ippon
Iranophobe
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molded capacitor
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Ngong Hills
NTCP
offcuts
opening the bite
opportunity for international operation
optical quartz glass
oriental person
Ow.
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pantonine
patrol inspector
personnel department
plumb datum
precipitation hardening stainless steel (ph stainless steel)
preventive medicine
put one's head on the block
quarantine
r.u
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
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salmivalli
sardanapalus
segmental pancreas transplantation
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springblade knife
stemonitis uvifera
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telocoels
the latest news
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upper tunguskas
uredo morifolia
urn funguss
water-sensitive
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