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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-indexed
absolute fertility
after loading
after-treatment
agonist
ahmed iii
antiphase relay
aulacophora indica
axial deformation
balernos
bank premise
blanketed area
blowzier
booksize
bookteller
brenkert
camoperated
cercis gigantea cheng et keng f.
conductivity measuring cell
COPAC
copayment
corneal erosion
croute calcaire
cytometaplasia
disaster action plan
disseminule type
don't move
Dupuytren's hydrocele
El Pedregoso
ephemeral region
exspect
field signal construction gang
filed rate doctrine
furnituremaker
genus gastrocybes
get sight of
gooseberry bush
group difference set
guide positively
heat-content volume chart
Helveticosaurus
Heteroceridae
heterozygous clone
impaler
in absolute cash terms
Irshans'k
isopropyl chlorocarbonate
kominsky
lebanese pound
lendee
line-return period
long quarter-castle ship
LSB communication
Lysimachia punctatilimba
malpighia mexicana
material fringe value
men of letters
mesoblastic nephroma
monopolistic
multiplier divider unit
mustache cups
narrow band interference
nasopalatine ducts
neoprene seal
oktays
Onbase-jima
overchlorinated
pagumas
perfelic rock (c.i.p.w)
personal profit
Platinum bolometer
port commissioner
postoviposition
power consumption equipment
powermaster
pre-shaving hob
Prevost's theory
propiomelanocortin
proportionated
randolphs
rent controls
rod thief
scaffolding yarn
scleromyxoedema
self-monitoring analysis & reporting technology
setoclavine
skywalkers
snifting
SOH
stabilizabilities
state troopers
sulfur-oxidizing
surface density of mechanical impedance
syntormon detritum
taking-up finger
taxiway marking
tritium activity
tropibasic cranium
Tskhinval
ununquadiums
visco
Weiz