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. Senator Ted 1 Kennedy is out of surgery at Duke University. His doctor says a procedure to treat his cancerous brain tumor 2 was successful. The 76-year-old now faces chemotherapy and radiation to treat the malignant 3 glioma, a lethal 4 type of brain tumor.

2. A Texas judge has placed some tight restrictions 5 on the parents of 400 children who are being allowed to return to their polygamist compound. Among other things, the parents have to allow unannounced visits from the state.


3. Neil Entwistle arrived at a Boston-area courthouse for the beginning of his murder trial under heavy security. It's been nearly two years since he was charged with killing 6 his wife and nine-month-old daughter.


4. Space shuttle Discovery performed a slow back flip 7 and then docked at the International Space Station. It's delivering a massive lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. chemotherapy: n.


Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.


2. glioma: n.【医】神经胶质瘤


A tumor originating in the neuroglia of the brain or spinal 8 cord.


3. lethal: adj.


If you describe something as lethal, you mean that it is capable of causing a lot of damage.


4. Buzz Lightyear: 巴斯光年



vt.翻晒,撒,撒开
  • The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
  • She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
n.(肿)瘤,肿块(英)tumour
  • He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
  • The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。
adj.恶性的,致命的;恶意的,恶毒的
  • Alexander got a malignant slander.亚历山大受到恶意的诽谤。
  • He started to his feet with a malignant glance at Winston.他爬了起来,不高兴地看了温斯顿一眼。
adj.致死的;毁灭性的
  • A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
  • She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则)
  • I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
  • a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
vt.快速翻动;轻抛;轻拍;n.轻抛;adj.轻浮的
  • I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书,看来似乎很有趣。
  • Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
adj.针的,尖刺的,尖刺状突起的;adj.脊骨的,脊髓的
  • After three days in Japan,the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.在日本三天,就已经使脊椎骨变得富有弹性了。
  • Your spinal column is made up of 24 movable vertebrae.你的脊柱由24个活动的脊椎骨构成。
学英语单词
acholias
algaes
anticoagulations
arch twilight
arreola
arrived-at
arthroderma uncinatum
azacosterol
Bakuninist
bipolar monolithic memory cell
blasthole
boat nomenclature
canned paragraph
carry out an experiment upon
centering circuit
ceremonialize
chiaramonte
chuckey
combustion fog machine
contact rail (or ramp)
dairy processing
dependent differentiation
diagonal turbine
digital
draft out
effective distance
exotherm
far below
first states
flat sawing
froggily
general census
genus Hippeastrum
green deformation
gustation
huckled
IAMMM
incisurae radialis
inquire
interior stairway
interplical
interstand
invaded tissue
iris wavebeam guide
irishmen
japanneries
jigg by jowl
kalkadoons
King Hussein
kragans
La Chapelle-d'Angillon
laissez-fair(e)ist, laisser-fair(e)ist
leather and prunella
lecithin(phosphatidylcholine)
lentins
lightpenia
lupinus albus l. white lupine
makes something of oneself
manicon
mbius
McKees Rock
metagalaxies n
microwave subcarrier
natillas
neighbo(u)r
nonhemispheric
Orites
overplucks
parting strap
profiled die
push-button reset
reverse blocking triode thyristor
rope guider
rough-machine
single-crust
single-room
single-stand reversing cold-reduction mill
solids content
sour grass
speech balloons
Spiradiclis oblanceolata
St-Brévin-les-Pins
ST_time_describing-people-who-are-old
stack-gate avalanche injection type MOS memory
subtrajectory
swing-arm
synthesis table
tabura (india)
tailpin
tanniferous
telemetering line
the separation of examination and enrollment system
the wolf
total capacity
voice group call service
wallachian
Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour
wedeman
Winklern
woodland caribous
xciiiest
Zyzz