时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(二)月


英语课

1. President Barack Obama flew to Canada this morning for his first foreign trip as president. He is expected to discuss trade issues, the war in Afghanistan and clean energy with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.


2. California lawmakers have finally approved a long-awaited budget. It includes spending cuts, tax increases in borrowing, intended to close a 42-billion-dollar deficit 1. The budget now goes to Governor Schwarzenegger who is expected to sign the measure.


3. The number of laid-off workers receiving unemployment benefits has jumped to an all-time high. Nearly five million people are jobless, more than 600,000 made new claims. Both figures were worse than expected and new projections 2 show unemployment rising for the rest of the year.


4. This Mexican bull was in the ring but he didn't wanna fight. He was being chased during the bullfight when he escaped the ring and exited into a parking lot. Matadors 4 eventually herded 5 him back into the ring where he was later killed in the bullfight.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. claim: n.


an official request for money that you think you have a right to


2. matador 3: n.


a man who fights and kills bulls during a bullfight


= bullfighter



n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
预测( projection的名词复数 ); 投影; 投掷; 突起物
  • Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
  • The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。
n.斗牛士
  • The matador and bull performed wonderfully in the ring.斗牛士和公牛在斗牛场中进行阗精彩的表演。
  • The matador had a narrow escape.这个斗牛士真是死里逃生。
n.斗牛士( matador的名词复数 )
  • Surprisingly, the United States has produced at least two matadors of substance. 令人惊讶的事,美国竟然产生了至少两位实质上的斗牛士。 来自互联网
  • One bullfighting appears on the scene, wrestles by three matadors six bulls, each person two rounds. 一场斗牛由三个斗牛士出场,角斗六条公牛,每人两个回合。 来自互联网
群集,纠结( herd的过去式和过去分词 ); 放牧; (使)向…移动
  • He herded up his goats. 他把山羊赶拢在一起。
  • They herded into the corner. 他们往角落里聚集。
学英语单词
accommodating transaction
additional element
Adrianouplis
air-ground radiotelephone
appointment of trustee
atmospheric vacuum distillation process
Ban Nong Hang
bends over
beneficial power
boded
body mechanics
Bursa subcutanea infrapatellaris
camile
carboxyheptyl
cerebral pia mater
cermet for cargo gear
charcoal revivifyig plant
circuit length
coincidence tuning
confirmed leeter of credit
conspecificity
deactivation of molecule
dichroa febrifuga lour.
die for special purpose
dilly bags
dividend check
domination principle
dual well
electrocardiogram scale
exilest
filtration control agent
fire assaying
first-order design
floating ring transmission
flylan (vlieland )
forebay dam
funis presentation
galeopsis tetrahits
genus Hypsiglena
geodetic station
globoid indexing cam mechanism
growth motivation
Guiscriff
h-reg
heaven knows
homopetalous
homoscedastic arrays
hydraulic plucking
Hydroton
IAMAP
in mora
international case-law
invariant assignment optimization
Japanese crucian carp
Jizhong
juasani-do (chwasari-do)
kneebars
LL-37
Man-aung Kyun
mineral cycle
morando
murmelstein
npc
pace-egg
palatalisation
pancreatitic
Payne, L.
perjuration
phenoltetraiodophthalein sodium
phosphoglucosamine acetylase
photonovel
polymeric immunoglobulin receptor
product of uniform space
punching drilling
putritude
quantum orthogonal signal
quick return
Rashomon-style
recirculation heater
rotational spectra
sandblast
scoot about
selenium(vi) fluoride
sifters
simultaneous estimate
slip erosion
sludge conditioning
solution basin
star-map
stockard
syndrome with good prognosis
table of type
thermoelectric power system
track scale
transmission box
ultimate wilting point
ultraviolet ray microscope
use characteristics
vaguely remember
villainry
water entrained by steam
Zurich agreements