时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年6月


英语课

1. Fire crews in California are still cleaning up after a massive fire at Universal Studios. The blaze destroyed several sets including one from "Back to the Future". A King Kong exhibit and a video vault 1 were also destroyed. Three firefighters were hurt. The cause isn't yet known.


2. Hillary Rodham Clinton has won Puerto Rico's primary. Fifty-five delegates are at stake there. However, Barack Obama is favored in the final two primaries Tuesday in Montana and South Dakota.


3. The Chicago priest whose comments about Hillary Clinton reignited the controversy 2 over Barack Obama's former church has apologized to his parishioners. At his own church today, the Rev 3. Michael Pfleger said he isn't racist 4 or sexist. He said the past few days have been the most painful of his life.


4. Space shuttle Discovery's seven-member crew has wrapped up an hours-long inspection 5 to look for any signs of damage to its ship. About five pieces of debris 6 broke off the fuel tank during lift-off yesterday, but none during the crucial first two minutes.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. at stake:


if something that you value very much is at stake, you will lose it if a plan or action is not successful.


2. parishioner n.


A priest's parishioners are the people who live in his or her parish, especially the ones who go to his or her church.


3. wrap up Phrasal Verb


To bring to a conclusion; settle finally or successfully.



n.拱形圆顶,地窖,地下室
  • The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
  • The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。
n.争论,辩论,争吵
  • That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
  • We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
v.发动机旋转,加快速度
  • It's his job to rev up the audience before the show starts.他要负责在表演开始前鼓动观众的热情。
  • Don't rev the engine so hard.别让发动机转得太快。
n.种族主义者,种族主义分子
  • a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
  • His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
学英语单词
a fight to the finish
acroamata
amblygonous
Apetemon
atrophia testiculi
backreacted
basal space
basic indicator
biochromatic
black-billed magpie
blood-thinner
bullet wood
callicarpa giraldiana hesse
carried-forward
cocooning
commutation inductance
counter-counter measures
Crispiano
Darnieulles
deep cerebral vein
deukmejians
dipper shovel
distance vector protocol
droop characteristic
dyclosium
dynamic stability of a power system
eastminster
electrophone
family Electrophoridae
fat salting
fendert
force generation
furobufen
Governor Channel
grooved pin
gun barrels
herring-bone gear
hidden lines
high-silicon bronze alloy
honey-combs
hook-worm
hyper-vigilant
immune suppression
interleave channel
iron garnet
isotope derivative method
keku
Langer girder
lappet wire
megascale
micro-dictionary
microrad
migmatite
moving target detector (mtd)
myrmicine
National Health Service
neo-kyotorphin
neutral step weakener
null method of measurement
oil refining catalyst
Osyka
packaged transister
PAFM
pasiniazid
person-job fit (p-j fit)
picoamps
Piquiri, R.
Podol'sk
preconventional morality
quasihelical
rafar
reciprocal mimicry
Rhynchophorus
Rφst
Saint Anselm
scharlow
series self-exciting braking
Seventh Decennial
short-sea coaster
shown forth
sinking seafloor core drill
slow motion starter
solen grandis
solenoid structure
spring joint folding ruler
steam horn
stone-bow
taken her chance
tarry cut
telomer
tetradecanoylphorbol
there-by
transverse vertical plane
ultracrisp
United States International Trade Commission
US Fish and Wildlife Service
vapour-cooled generator
vige
villancico
water development
Yukawa interactions