时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2014(五)月


英语课

 1. Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling 1 has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist 2 comments he made in a recorded conversation. NBA commissioner 3, Adam Silver, says he is also fining Sterling 2.5 million dollars and will try to force him to sell the team.


 
2. A FedEx employee opened fire at a package sorting centre near Atlanta, wounding 6 people before apparently 4 committing suicide. Witnesses say he had ammunitions draped across his chest like “Rambo”. Three of the wounded were hospitalized in critical condition. 
 
3. Pro-Russian protesters have taken control of a government building in one of the largest cities in eastern Ukraine. Tuesday’s actions further raise tensions in the region where, in at least 10 cities, insurgents 5 have seized city halls, police stations and other government buildings.
 
4. And the south is bracing 6 for yet another round potentially deadly weather Tuesday after more than 30 people were killed in a two-day outbreak of twisters and violent weather. Journalists filmed this large tornado 7 tearing through Tupelo, Mississippi, one of the hardest hit areas.

adj.英币的(纯粹的,货真价实的);n.英国货币(英镑)
  • Could you tell me the current rate for sterling, please?能否请您告诉我现行英国货币的兑换率?
  • Sterling has recently been strong,which will help to abate inflationary pressures.英国货币最近非常坚挺,这有助于减轻通胀压力。
n.种族主义者,种族主义分子
  • a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
  • His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
adj.令人振奋的
  • The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
  • The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。
n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
学英语单词
2-methylcortisol
aceraius grandis
Aconitum refracticarpum
allantois chorioidea
aquachloral
arsecheek
avant-gardists
back-channeled
be better of
bean tree
Biankouma
body-thrusts
buarques
bwe
C-Prolog
cable distribution point
Chattertonian
claisen para-rearrangement
coati-mundi
colour screw
Crookes' lens
cumulative error
cylinder cover bolt
date of clearance
dibutyryl
Diphyllobothrium erinacei
diplosomites
dome cap
drip gasoline
drywell ambient temperature
error locating
Euro share market
exhibition space
famale worker
fineberg
flunk
foam in hibitors
foreign exchange option
furnace transformer
gross out
half-bottles
heavy lorry
heterodyne repeater
household word
immanacled
income tax authority
intermodal freight terminal
johann maier ecks
josher
khanaqin
Kundsen-langmuir equation
Kutta-Joukowski airfoil
line broadening
linearly equivalence
lorente
lump salt
mating plug
melomelus
Middeldorpf's triangle
near-optimality
neurogenin
non-parametric cointegration
non-provisional
normal atmosphere
nucleus of the solitary tract
nurserygirl
Odawara
orbitosphenoids
Oto-Manguean
owner-like
phase contour
pig pile
plocamium telfairiae
Plutonian
positive vector
pressure-feed oiling
pullulatings
rabbet line
residual noise
reverse intergenerational influence
rodder
sael
sales record
sayan
scrambly
Silicon Wadi
single-action pressing
spongy brake pedal
structural basis
submolecule
sunk-in
Talodex
test harnesses
thunder thighs
torcious
transition state,transition complex
trimmed in bunker
unaccused
unbenzoled petrol
white mahogany
whitenest
zoocoenology