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
absenteeisms
accessible singularity
acid-resistant coating
actinisms
air-arc cutting
as open as the day
Atonism
auger beetle
avocatory
Back haus, Wilhelm
bargaret
Bargoens
be suppose to
bucket loader
Candlemas Day
caoba
chloral acetamide
cockling
cod's-head
conodrymillm
convoy fleet
corresponding point
cross-regulation
dead reckoning (dr)
defragment now
disc wheel
discrete perpetuity model
double context
elastic-finish sheeting
flash gasoline
forced-draft boiler
formaldehyde phenylhydrazone
frederikshavns
Gaenslen
gamo-
geared sector
grid packing
half-quartern
heavy hauler
honors day
hydrographical ship
Hygrophorus marzuolus
infinite distributed lag model
inflatings
inversion base
itar-tass
jonet
juruna
koinomatter (ordinary matter)
Kori Creek
laminar flames
Lansium
lantern coal
launching service support
list up
load leveling relay
Loss or Damage Caused by Wave
mechanical stabilization
metal box
moment estimate
Noirchain
noncommunicative
palefaced
pi
pick-me-ups
Plantin
portio legitima
portunids
predicative set theory
pushbacks
pyromucates
red alert
refrigerated container ship
renaglandin
resistor capacitor transistor logic
response surface
rigid bearing
ROCC
sapiens
self-identities
shell shock
Shubnikov-de Haas effect
Sibylline Oracles
Solanum xanthocarpum
spark welding
spring-cleaned
sun rivers
symbol
talmigold
tectonics
Temnopleuroida
temperature varying coefficient
thin web plate
Tilden,William Tatem, Jr.
tractor linkage drawbar
two-eyed violets
two-stroke single-acting
Vaccinium lamprophyllum
Very pleased to meet you
water intake layer
water-level frequency curve
well-aerated