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
4-Salicyloylmorpholine
a type right-of-way
acetyldigoxin
aethetic zoning
aluminum nitride
Amospan
angulus posterior pyramidis
antinociceptives
ateliosis
atom size
bagnio
bald cypresses
bald wheat
balloon fish
belaces
bendini
bhaktas
bioautography
bonxies
buttonlike
carleo
carved lacquer necklace
catheys val.
circulating pledge
cluster of engines
colour correction mask
compass platform
conceptual data
constant staticizer
corn islands
coronal helmet
direct condenser
double butt strap
double open end wrench black finished
electric power distribution panal
elks
exchange equipment
famulating
farandinical
fast-breeder reactor
Federal Reserve Systems
feet-on-the-ground
femas
fish-eating rat
flyhalf
folkeskoles
ghirardini
goes off with
hare's-foot
insulated boundary
Kanapoi
Kool-Aid
lambertianin
loop-locked
made himself at home
Marianologist
methyl silicone resins
microcampylopus laevigatum
moment of forces tending to capasize
negative scotoma
nephron(e)
non synchronized network
output and input
painstakenly
paleo-indians
papodums
paste food
ploughtail
polytetrafluoroethylene fibre reinforcement
prairie mallow
prescription drug advertising
pulsating energy
quadricellular
quiffed
refluxive
removing fire in the lung and resolving phlegm
sa-ree
saboor
schilz
scrimpiness
series statement
skinnis
SNQ
sorted ore
spinibulbar
stablish
suspension rod
tally shop
tap bill
tertiary plants
tetracyclic coordinate
tide-riding water level
troodont
Ungcheon
velocity derived by differential
wallowish
waste
Wehrbleck
wood former
working space register
working with command bars