时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月


英语课

1. Continental 1 flight 128 was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami after hitting severe turbulence 2 during an overnight flight from Brazil to Texas. At least 26 people on board were injured, four of them seriously.



2. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs says the president has committed to not raise taxes on families who are earning less than a quarter million dollars. The reassurance 3 came after Treasury 4 Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested Sunday that the administration was not ready to rule out a tax hike to lower the federal deficit 5.



3. Prosecutors 6 say a grand jury has indicted 7 Plaxico Burress on weapons charges. The New York Giants star shot himself in the thigh 8 at a Manhattan nightclub last winter. The indictment 9 charged the 31-year-old football player with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment.



4. And it's a new gadget 10 in Japan that is helping 11 people walk. Weighing about 22 pounds, these machines pick up signals from the brain. The makers 12 say they can help people who are injured or otherwise have trouble getting around.



adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的
  • A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
  • The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
n.喧嚣,狂暴,骚乱,湍流
  • The turbulence caused the plane to turn over.空气的激流导致飞机翻转。
  • The world advances amidst turbulence.世界在动荡中前进。
n.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • He drew reassurance from the enthusiastic applause.热烈的掌声使他获得了信心。
  • Reassurance is especially critical when it comes to military activities.消除疑虑在军事活动方面尤为关键。
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
n.大腿;股骨
  • He is suffering from a strained thigh muscle.他的大腿肌肉拉伤了,疼得很。
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
n.起诉;诉状
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
  • They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。
n.小巧的机械,精巧的装置,小玩意儿
  • This gadget isn't much good.这小机械没什么用处。
  • She has invented a nifty little gadget for undoing stubborn nuts and bolts.她发明了一种灵巧的小工具用来松开紧固的螺母和螺栓。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
adamec
additive-manufacturing
adjust present value method
aethyl
Ainsliaea macroclinidioides
analytical auditing
as inspected
audio-tutorial
bechilite
billing category
biographist
bladebones
bring something under someone's notice
c3 cycle
calling trace
carol stream
chimarra triangulata
collaring
container cargo insurance
dentis
dentoid
display attention bit
DLL (dynamic link library)
dohter
duumvirs
electrocauterized
electronic resume
endo agar
entry control
executed provision
Flora Reef
framea
Fuller,Allred Carl
gelatina
Gentiana purdomii
geometer moth
give-up
governing class
gravic
guylden
head bands
hematological oncology
hollowares
iminoacetate
indes
initial working capital
integrated disk
intramolluscan phase
intrinsic fraud
Isovue-200
La Rivière
laliatry
Leptoloma
license
mining disease
missed the post
Molatón
molecular beam epitaxy (mbe)
monthly-payment
moving coil relay
muggard
non-trivial multiplicative valuation
nonclerical
nonmineralized
nonwitches
nuchal scan
on-line output
Pelletier Wilfrid
polypoly
possypin
primary tenses
promotional product
quality auditing
quarter-backs
Radermachera pentandra
radially unbounded function
ravayn
revenues collected in advance
Rubus subtibetanus
Sabbatarianisms
say adieu to
senile psychoses
shadows skating
songworthy
spatangoidas
special printing format
specialized medicare
spectrometer channel
Spennymoor
spring ligaments
states of being
stationary training equipment
switch-backing
the last words
tin titanium
Tolstoian
toy camera
vat red
Vehm
vent valve connections
vice-chair
well-burnished