时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


英语课

今天我们要学的词组是hot seat。 Hot seat在美国俚语里指处死刑用的电椅。Hot seat也指困窘的处境,尴尬的局面。比如公司连续亏损,总裁的压力很大, "The CEO found himself in the hot seat after another bad quarter."


还比如美国副总统切尼的前办公厅主任Lewis Libby被控在中情局特工身份泄露案的调查过程中撒谎。 法院开庭审理Lewis Libby一案的时候,许多政府要人不得不出庭回答问题,其中许多人处境尴尬, "Many will be on the hot seat during the trial." 今天我们学习的词组是hot seat ...




 



学英语单词
a false step
abbreviated accounts
actuating fluid
ambigenous
Ancares, Serra dos
argyarctia fuscobasalis
armozine
arrest without a warrant
Arteria gastroepiploica sinistra
atmospheric clutter
auto pitch control
avant-rocks
band 5
bilinguis
bloodjournal
bolster guide
camera mounting equipment
carbohydrate isomerase
choledology
chorea oculi
circular-sweep
collector's edition
compatible coordinate system
concept of operations
cron(huexly 1957)
designed reliability
dinarthrum taiwanense
Diplura
discrete energy levels
dwarflings
environmental and resource protection
exploring electrode
expositors
faggot up
false lift
flated pointed tool
floristries
Guayanovac
heading per standard compass
hodrs
hollow-forge
hurricane surveillance radar
ilic
in the mountains
institute director
iron tower
Kushan(formation)
lain with
lateroprotrusive
leerings
leinamycin
loriot
lorren
Magnesio-Anthophyllite
melhuish
Mirigama
Moriya
movable nus
multiplex bus interface
myocomma
nuclear orientation
overhead seam
pay off function
pickled product
Pioneer Fracture Zone
plimsolls
poorlier
porkle'pi
prominalettes
prorubricyte
prothrombin accelerator
radiation chimaera
registration data
regular fluctuation
regulator pressure
scism
self-authorship
semi-fidel
semidwarf
shift register memory
side roof
size of settlement
sort by name
sphaerirostris pinguis
standard color solution
steak-house
substance protection
synthetic flavo(u)ring agent
take seat on the woolsack
tappet switch
tawnish
Tsama
tunbridge wells (royal tunbridge wells)
wearproof
wellhead back pressure
whole body scanogram
wjw
worcesterberries
worker-hour rate
xerophytic plant
zarias
zirconium dioxides