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。
学英语单词
adrenalopathy
apple polishing
arc of fire
arteria interossea volaris
atrioventricular cushion
automatic correction device
auxiliary terminals
bacterium tremo
balakhana
beach phonograph
big red
blueback salmon
bottom door operating handle
brilliantly
bucket searching operation
cage mast
calci-
camryn
chemical reactivity control system
colliery siding
communal enjoyment
cotton pipe
cow's tail
d-pimaric acid
datum bench-mark
drainage network
electric currents
eligible bill for rediscounting
emblements
exchange broadening
extremely sensitive
fixability
fluid level gage
forms control
Gentiana crassicaulis Duthie
glucose-dependent
Grosshansdorf
group pile action
grouping of recovery records
Hall resistance
heat regulation
hog holding device
incorrect switching
inferior choroid plexus
initial success
International Association for Biological Oceanography
intersexual male
jag-offs
Kandy Dist.
locator (l)
lower pintle
mangrove forest
mercantile financial report
microcytic anaemia
mind-wipe
misdivision haploid
move up and down
new construction survey
non-Archimedean field
non-sinusoidal complete orthogonal function
nuclear transplanta-tion
ocelusal contact
OSART (Operational Safety Review Team)
oscillographic balancing
overall submerged length
palmoplantar eczema
permittances
pin dot
Potamogeton wrightii
precision attenuator
print mechanism
profluency
proun
psychophysicotherapeutics
pupil imaging
pure coal
quivers
retapamulin
roll flattening
saissetia coffeae (signoret)
semi-focusing
separate connection
slipperness
snubness
sole weight
spacecraft long-term operation management
Sphyrapicus
split treatment
student feedback
São João, R.
T-engine
tectus pyramis
thoratec
three-channel
transmit distortion
two-man capsule simulator
upfaults
water-soluble film
water-supply scheme
whitemeat
workable blast
xenoestrogenicity