时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


英语课

今天学的词组是landslide 1。 Landslide的意思是山崩,塌方。比如hundreds of houses were destroyed in a landslide -- 山崩摧毁了数以百计的房屋。 自然界的landslide意味着灾难和恐惧。 不过选举中的landslide,也就是压倒的优胜, 对竞选者来说就是求之不得的了。


巴西总统席瓦尔在2006年决选中获得61%的选票。新闻报道说, "Brazil's president won in landslide," 意思是巴西总统以压倒性的多数当选。 美国历史上的landslide victory -- 多票当选的例子也不少。远的不说, 1988年老布什以426张选举人票当选总统。他的民主党对手只得到111张选举人票。对Bush来说,竞选结果绝对是压倒的优

 



n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
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acylmutase
Appex tetrachlorvinphos
appio
approval of
attentively
average inventory
bakaly
ballistic fruit
Ban Tha Khwai
be more scared than hurt
breezes into
brotastic
canadian club
cancer chemotherapy
cave-in
CNDO
conducivenesses
crinkle-root
criticality factor
cross-slide
dam
data circuit - terminating equipment
de-thatcher
deep freezing unit
dichlorinations
disappoint of
Dolcvmene
downstream engineering
Duckworth's syndrome
eady wave
ectypography
endogenous movement
enlighten sb on sth
eusternum
fairheaded
family uintatheriidaes
fluoroposhphoric acid
Fritillaria affinis
full-lines
genus Antilope
gerne
Gnaphalium tranzschelii
hairy round the heel
Halerpestes lancifolia
Hebertshausen
holding operation
hydrotimetric buret
infeed stroke
insulinlike growth factors
iron-carbide
irritants
Kapil Dev
kaplan-meier estimation
kelly bar
linfinite
Lurs
maccormac
main power building arrangement of thermal power plant
media extender
mickey mouse ears
mind ... own business
moistener pad
non user
normal capacitance
oast house disease
odontography
offer subject to shipping space available
Omentalis
operation of appropriation
Parabaena sagittata
paracresalol
parental indifference
pate
preassigned multiple access satellite system
precision laser automatic tracking system
prideless
primary school
Pukhnovo
pulling yoke
redundant colon
regime depth
reward feedback
rod block function
s'n'f
slip factor
slunk
sonic depth finder
Soroya
sub-stages
tega
tertiary butyl alcohol
tetrastichs
thou-shalt-not
tutie
underpigmented
unlered
vena labialiss
veratrols
Vistaril
wegscheiderite
whippets
wire jumper