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.The Dow Jones is continuing its volatile 1 ride at the time when the Dow was down over 500 points putting it below 10000 for the first time in four years. Despite the government's Wall Street bailout plan, credit markets are still strained.The Federal Reserve is taking fresh steps to help stablize the economy.


2.Police in California arrested the driver of a charter bus that crashed in Northern California. Authorities believed the driver was driving under the influence.The crash killed eight and injuried dozens as passengers were ejected and crushed by the rolling vehicle.


3.Democrats 2 are resurrecting Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's ties to the Keating Five scandal from two decades ago.It comes after his ticket mate,Sarah Palin, criticised Obama's ties to the founder 3 of the Wheather Underground group which was blamed for several bombings when Obama was a child.


4.The 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three European scientists for separate discoveries.Two French researchers were cited for their discovery of HIV. A German researcher was honored for finding viruses that cause cervical cancer.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1.volatile means something changing or changeable. It can refer to:


In economics:


Volatility 4 (finance), a measure of the risk in a financial instrument


2.eject v.


to throw out or off from within


3.resurrect
res‧ur‧rect vt.
to bring back an old activity, belief, idea etc that has not existed for a long time:
The Home Office have resurrected plans to build a new prison just outside London.
another failed attempt to resurrect his career


4.the Keating five 详情见此处


5.cervical cancer子宫颈癌



adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质
  • With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定,投资冒着很大的风险。
  • His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱,喜怒无常。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
n.挥发性,挥发度,轻快,(性格)反复无常
  • That was one reason why volatility was so low last year.这也是去年波动性如此低的原因之一。
  • Yet because volatility remained low for so long,disaster myopia prevailed.然而,由于相当长的时间里波动性小,灾难短视就获胜了。
学英语单词
5FU
addie
agnolotti
amical
analog oscilloscope
As cold as stone
backward backwash
Balblair
bastle-house
bellows type sealing ring
bhar
Bn approximation
breakdancer
calling population
cartilaage
Castetnau
cellular respiration cellular type
chemical asphyxiants
claymations
clutch-disk
conjuncitivitis
conventional stage
cyclexedrine
deep-seated rocks
DM (damage monitor)
driving-range potential
eight-hours
electronic switch board
Embryobionta
esperance
fication
fiorucci
forthwax
FYI for your information
geranium tsingtauense yabe
give one's word of hono u r
glass microsphere
gone home
half-angle formula
hdfc
Hydron Blue R
interatrial sulci
intergesture
itagaki
kunstgewerbemuseum
lamarks
Legal Duty Reduction or Exemption
lipochrome cell
m. transversus perinei superficialis
mathemagician
maximum width of trench-crossing
mega-
Minami-Iō-jima
molecular circuits
net mark-on percentage
nickelite (nickeline)
Norgan
NPR (new production reactor)
occipital margin
one-touch operation
opportuneful
oravitizite
panitch
panoraming
papa-
parallel processor
parapeted
pendant tube
pentahydric alcohol
phebalosin
PIDC
pine-greens
proponent
pure alkyd resin
raintop
raw waste water
religionaries
rhodoporphyrin
rulers
saint teresa of avilas
shifting down
shipment schedule
source authentication
standard progressive matrices(spm)
stay around
strayer
switch disconnector
synergistic agent
T&D (transmission and distribution)
telecopying
telltale float
tire kickers
Tobelbad
Troup County
Turkish Van
turn a nice penny
two shoe external contracting brake
unit service factor
Vankarem
visayas
willie wagtail
written testimony