时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(九)月


英语课

1. President Bush says he is keeping troop strength in Iraq mostly the same until the next president takes over. About 4,000 Marines support troops are slated 1 to return in the coming months. But no Army brigades will pull out this year.


2. Western intelligence experts are checking rumors 2 that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may be sick, possibly suffering from a stroke. Kim has not been seen for weeks and he did not show up for a parade marking the 60th anniversary of North Korea's founding.


3. Hurricane Ike is moving across the Caribbean, dumping rain on Cuba. The storm is blamed  for 80 deaths and will most likely move out over the Gulf 3 of Mexico, possibly strengthening before hitting Texas or northern Mexico.


4. Polar bears in Japan have turned green, drawing questions from puzzled visitors at this zoo. The bears are normally white of course,but had a change of color after swimming in a pool overgrown with algae 4


WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online


1.take over [PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V P from n, V P]
If you take over a job or role or if you take over, you become responsible for the job after someone else has stopped doing it.


2.be slated to  [V-PASSIVE: be V-ed to-inf, be V-ed for n]
If something is slated to happen, it is planned to happen at a particular time or on a particular occasion.
Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture...
Controversial energy measures are slated for Senate debate within days.


3.pull out
move out or away
"The troops pulled out after the cease-fire"


4.blame vt.
to say or think that someone or something is responsible for something bad
blame sb/sth for sth
Marie still blames herself for Patrick's death.
The report blames poor safety standards for the accident.
The decision to increase interest rates was widely blamed (=blamed by many people) for the crisis.


5.overgrown
If a garden or other place is overgrown, it is covered with a lot of untidy plants because it has not been looked after.
We hurried on until we reached a courtyard overgrown with weeds...


 



用石板瓦盖( slate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。
  • Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。
n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷
  • Rumors have it that the school was burned down. 有谣言说学校给烧掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Rumors of a revolt were afloat. 叛变的谣言四起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
n.水藻,海藻
  • Most algae live in water.多数藻类生长在水中。
  • Algae grow and spread quickly in the lake.湖中水藻滋蔓。
学英语单词
Abqaiq
abraded filament yarn
Amomum maximum
any publicity is good publicity
application for transportation in bond
aspidistrin
autodialler
axial peaking hot spot factor
Bacillus pneumonicus agilis
bell crank pin
blast closure performance
bloweth
Bohemian olive
brinjals
Calligonum ebinuricum
Ch'osan-gun
Chinese dumpling
chip-breaker groove width
Chorotionite
class for backward children
collector diode
cosa-
customs tariff schedule
cut-off attenuater
direct-axis transient voltage
Doppler diagnostic apparatus
driving-range potential
drying characteristics
ectocellular enzyme
electroneutral
entry under homestead
equal sacrifice theory
fairings
for ... age
formosempria varipes
fortran 90
fructus crataegi pinnatifidae
full carrier
gas centrifuger
gas unaccounted for
handclasps
how go
hymenolepiasis
image spliting optical system
inflatable mat boat
inspection of property
ir drop
keep walking
keratitis ramificata superficialis
la seine
larazotide
length of limitation period
lusitanicus
maezous formosana
magmatic origin
magneto block
maislovas
match made in heaven
Moskorzew
n-nonyl acetate
Nagumbuaya Pt.
nailheaded molding
natural language translation
natural ventilator
negative capacitance amplifier
next in
nitric acid pulp
non-conformers
non-consumable arc welding elec-trode
nonthermonuclear neutron
Orange-Bishop
parchment manuscript
paso dobles
Patella vulgata
pear-shapeds
pendant type monorail scale
prentons
pressure centre
principle of superposition of states
pudwhack
quick-setting material
radical geography
rank fusinite
reflecting interference microscope
reverse arching
Rhodope Mountains
ring up the curtain
ronko
solarultraviolet radiation
southmark
spaul
structured objective
sweatout
tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer fibre
throat gland
to abolish
tread circle
tropists
ultraparanoid
ussay
ventilating chamber
yttrium iron garnet