时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(七月)


英语课

By George Dwyer
Washington, DC
05 July 2006
 
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German-American automaker Daimler-Chrysler has announced it will introduce its Smart brand car to the U.S. market.


Daimler-Chrysler is betting that high fuel prices and growing concern over global warming will help drive consumer interest in a car that is not much bigger than a golf cart. 


 
Daimler-Chrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche 
  
Dieter Zetsche says people may consider the car for pure economics 2. "Gas prices are now up around $3 a gallon, and we will never see cheap gas again. There have been increasing the number of Americans, especially young adults, looking for ways to less the impact of their daily lives make on environment."


The Smart car was recently featured in the film "The Da Vinci Code."  It has earned a fashionable image in European cities. It is seen as a practical transportation option for places where streets are narrow and parking spaces hard to come by.  


 
Former race car driver Roger Penske 
  
Former race car driver Roger Penske has signed on to develop a network of up to 50 Smart dealerships across the U.S.  Penske says the car is not just smart, it is also safe. "I think from a safety perspective, you got to try the safety unit within this vehicle. With ESP, the airbag, technologies that Mercedes has. Once you are in the vehicle, you drive it, I look at some of the crash testing that is taking place, it's outstanding from the standpoint of safety."


Daimler-Chrysler has lost money on the Smart car since the first model rolled off the assembly line in 1998. By bringing its little car into the huge U.S. market, the firm hopes to reverse 3 its fortunes.  Americans will see an auto 1 similar to the two-seat European model, known as the "For-Two." 


 
Smart Car, a mini-sized 2-seater
  
It has been modified to meet U.S. emission-control and safety standards.  Daimler-Chrysler says the "For-Two" is the only mass-produced car in the world that is less than three meters in length. It uses five liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers of city driving and less than three-and-a-half on the highway. Its price in the U.S. has not been announced, but in nearby Canada it sells for about $15,000.



n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
n.经济学,经济情况
  • He is studying economics,which subject is very important.他正在学习经济学,该学科是很重要的。
  • One can't separate politics from economics.不能把政治与经济割裂开来。
v.推翻,颠倒,反向;n.反面,逆境;adj.反向的
  • His answer was just the reverse of what I expected.他的回答正好与我期望的相反。
  • Please reverse the positions of two pictures.请把两张图片的位置倒转过来。
学英语单词
all-in-service station
anemoside
anti-aeration plate
arrive at a discount
bartonias
be in convulsions
Belt Channel
bene esse
bold as a lion
bopster
carry coals
coding television picture
commensurate with international standards
convergent filtration
Cupidlike
cussler
daggar
demands
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
dipole reflector
disconnect rod
dissipation interaction
dry painting
effective signal
environment ecology
explosive gas indicator
gangen
genus helianthuss
Getxo
give sb. one's good honour
globular cementite
gripple
Hazen and Williams' formula
heat movement
hemp gasket
IACAC
idol worshiper
Ikeda,Hayato
immigrant vein
inconfinable
indoor bushing
isotropic indicatrix
Jennifer Lopez
JNACC
jump r.
Kempt, L.
long axis of mesentery
loose condition
lymphocryptoviral
magnetic heads
Moorish capital
n-nitrosomethylurea
no-oil-supply
nsss
one-commodity model
orange salad
Orco, Fiume
outdoor power house
Philasterina
pleiochasial
pollution of herbicide
potty-chair
pressostat
Prinivil
pulsating bending fatigue strength
quasi-hydrodynamic lubrication
quillwort
racing-car
rare earth deposits
red-wine
reservoir flood routing
rotaviral
sadiron
Schizozygine
scream blue murder
sewage disposal pump
soren aabye kierkegaards
source of local materials
space charge zone
spatial variable
spine chiller
sprote
stressed collar
sulfonylation
Sēdik'a
T-bank position control loop
televillages
temporary hearing defect
tetrazyl hydrazine
tgd
think out aloud
This is January
turn of expressions
United Nations High Commission for Refugees
upper end of evaporator
usnea florida
very long range (vlr)
wartworm
water-laden
weighing system
whin
wipes up