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
0892
abandonment in extractive industry
abnormal termination message
acoustic after-image
acute catarrhal laryngitis
administrative protection
altitude surveying
ASD2
auroric
binapacryl
Bir Enzaran
block of assignment statement
bus-organized structure
calculus of vectors
challenge
chitin decomposing bacteria
CL(Connectionless)
cyclic carousel system
Cyeobemin
dantian
Daphne myrtilloides
dendritic (accessory respiratory) organ
detailed substantive testing
double predestination
dynamic triaxial tester
e-ray (extraordinary ray)
engine programmer
escalator schools
exspuition
false symbol
flood diversion for irrigation
foot-pound
forelift
gecalloy
glaspies
Gletsch
Glossa, Cape
going native
gotten someone off
gum sangapenum
Gunter's line
Guyon's operation
Hess R.
Hichens
hyperhydric
idles
interest-earnings
international morality
keeping up
kuehneromyces mutabilis
lan ling wang
laser variables measurement
licochalcone
love-children
machine with inherent self excitation
Magnolia sprengeri
margin trading
medial axis transformation
micrographic camera
nanomia bijuga
narrative mimesis (syntax)
nematolith (nemalite)
nibbed sagger
osmotic resistance
overhanging bow
parafollicular
pelosiderite
pent
pilaster strip
Pinophyta
pit boards
planimetry
plumbages
project financing
queen of
Quicombo
reduction screw
remeal
RT PC
safari-suit
scor
semisaprophyte
silica rock
simions
spikelets
steam reformer
stiff safety fence
strombotta (italy)
sulci temporalis inferior
tandem articulated gear
Taseko Mountain
task identifier
test Trousseau's
thawed meat
theory of organic selection
thyroid problem
tilting hydraulic press
transient self-focusing
underwater communications system
vegetative petite
worfs