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
acid resistance test
affix one's seal to
alopecia syphilitica
Alyab
alyosha
analogue record
angle of stagger
ash-stone
be full of animal spirits
Bene.
Bessou, Mt.de
bombax malabaricas
CASE tool
cebratane
chloranilanillide
chlorosulfenation
combo store
constant intensity pyrometer
cpq
cushioning plate
cytopnotometer
data warehousing
Deltahydrocortisone
Deutzia zhongdianensis
Dingess
Diplogaster
drug-safety
ECIP2
economic evaluation of a project
emergency cold starting test
ensealing
ethyl nitrolic acid
focused ion beam technology
framework of steel reinforcement
gnrha
go nuclear
Guaje, Llano de
haploscopic
heavy rail motor trolley
hiv-infection
Huffman codings
iklawa
illiciaceae illicium family
inconclusive presumption
inflatable seat
intrata
k electron capture
knowledge-based software
lambert's law
light of nature
lp-gas
make heavy weather of sth.
merger with
metatarsophalangeal
methodological nominalism
MK-196
monosulcate
mooeth
mutton chops
non-commercial contract
on stream time
outbreathed
overall pressure drop
parenthesizations
photo-offsets
pleoptics
preglabellar
private foundations
quasi-reflexive Banach space
quasinegative operator
rakha
recompare
rotational hysteresis
round windows
ruggedized construction
science fictions
second-tier shares
secured loan
self-watering
Sigogne
skid bar
slack load
snapping shrimps
standard of average social labo(u)r consumption
stoloniferous
storm signal
synthetic mortar
systematic nomenclature
the citizen
throw a flood of light on
tiddy
to-bune
trading on curb
transpolitical
verbatim report
voice synthesis
WAAAF
weight per package
Wernhout
wheel slide equipment
xenon tetrachloride
yuli