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 ...




 



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A.C.Josephson effect
all-veneer construction
angle lubricator
animus
atmosphere discharge pipe
attractive force
avatar
bartner
bathymeters
bearing error
Chaetangieae
coal pulverizing system
commercial vehicles
contiunes
dagges
demi-bar
digital part
EBCDIC
Edzo
Eleusinians
engine jet pipe
engislet
ephemeral plant desert
follicular abscess
fostemsavir
fundamental differential invariant
gliding ring
gonista bicolor
Greek Fathers
Guoy
hateable
historical grammar
hit-runs
honors-level
hydraulic preamplifier
imperatively coordinated association
isolineolin
jaqi
jelly meat
Jodrell Bank
juicy sac
lipomyces
lonelinesses
magnitude of greatest eclipse
maoke mountains
matches and dispatches
maximal prime divisor
microprogrammed machine
museum of natural history
naepaine hydrochloride
natural air circulation
nitrate aerosol
non-nant
nutrient concentration gradient
oil production history
ortho-arsenic acid
ozokerit
paint equipment
Paso de las Piedras
peak internal pressure
pinger
plaw
postcrania
posttraumatic epilepsy
prior notice
put something out of one's head
pycnospora lutescens(poir.)schinal.
Ramanujan primes
request loading
road curve
Rosa kokanica
schollers
seapickle
self-operated thermostatic controller
short-term public loan
sleeping-pills
SLIP emulator
Sources Of The Law
sparsate
speciality debt
spin rooms
standard Weston cell
sub agent
Sulcus vomerovaginalis
systems audit
tears
tertiary phosphine
tomos
trigged
tu lung
twitchfork
unit solid angle
vacuum-tight furnace cover
vaginae tendinum digitales pedis
vehicle economy
vertical stress
warbey
water injection nozzle
watertight basement
zymoplastic