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
abonnements
acid fiavor
aliquant parts
allodiploidy
bouldery
bow-tie
branchial gill arc
bring something to the touch
bronchiolitis
cable grounded
calsomine
charter of incorporation
Chonetes
chrysosis(chrysiasis)
coefficient of length variation
coltishness
cone head semi-tubular rivet
constant of gravitation
criminal libel
Cuango(Kwango)
Dahomeian
dead catalyst
drawer-payee
effect variable
evisceration of eye
ex-stock
far-field region
fertilizer disk
flex life
fluctuating frequency
food-candle
FOUP
freedom of the will
Gale, Zona
georgiaite
girdle plane
Gleamax
gravenesses
grease sb.'s fist
hassams
hedrite
heighths
Hyphochytridiomycetes
indebtment
intensifying factor
kickoff returners
leukodermic
lithic cachexia
low-frequency signal generator
manual transfer switch
match(ed) filter
material quality standard
meliola cameliae (cattaneo) sacc.
mfg
minuid
modified Parshall flume
Montefano
morphological examination
mysticetis
noncontributory pension plan
one off bill
oophorocele
oracularity
Pectolite-M2abc
percolation flow rate
perfect weather
pin expansion test
plane-table intersection
plug in type connection
postnatal depression
precedence network diagram
prenominated
published diameter
Rediu
Revello
Rheaform
rosemarkie
ryth
Schweinitz
screw sth out of sb
SDH1
ship-feeder
shpg
signal output uniformity
sino
Szekszard
tamiment
the decadence of morals
thyrsi-
torpedo-shape embryo
trade pattern
trade-off between risk and rate of return
transverse expansion
Treaty of Brussels
tricomponent
trustless
undecided
vagina cordis
walrond
witchhood
Wārām, Kowtal-e
ydrys