时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课


1. It's a huge day for presidential politics and voting has begun on the crucial four-state primary that could determine both the Democratic and Republican races. Hillary Clinton is looking to put a stop to the momentum 1 that has carried Barack Obama to victories in the last 11 Democratic contests. On the Republican side, John McCain hopes to clinch 2 the nomination 3 and force Mick Huckabee to the sidelines.


 


2. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has touched down in Israel amid escalating 4 tensions in the Middle East. Rice made a pitch stop in Egypt, saying rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza must stop for the situation to improve. She also says Israel's military must not target Palestinian civilians 5.


 


3. Six people including 2 children were found dead in Memphis. Police say they were victims of gunshot wounds and 3 other children were hurt. Authorities haven't given any information about potential suspects or a possible motive 6.  


 


 4. Police in West Palm Beach is still trying to figure out what drove a man to go on a shooting rampage at a Wendy's. The gunman opened fire, killing 7 one and injuring another five. The man later took his own life.


 



n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
v.敲弯,钉牢;确定;扭住对方 [参]clench
  • Clinch the boards together.用钉子把木板钉牢在一起。
  • We don't accept us dollars,please Swiss francs to clinch a deal business.我方不收美元,请最好用瑞士法郎来成交生意。
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
v.(使)逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 );(使)逐步扩大;(使)更高;(使)更大
  • The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
n.动机,目的;adv.发动的,运动的
  • The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
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。
学英语单词
achromic pelade
acrosporous
aerial torpedoes
airborne lead
an rubha
appeal for help
battle station
Belloste's solution
beverly hillss
binding resolution
bioisotope
blew their brains out
bossboy
chain transfer reaction
clay membrane electrode
cold forming property
colourmen
contracting company
cyclitols
Dayak
dealer's privilege
delayed linear array
desmotomy
door leaf
doquets
Drinker-Collins resuscitation
drynursed
equatorial spore germination
Eshtehārd
estimated capacity
ETAF
experimentalproduction
fibre membrane
Fixed-Income Style Box
frescan
ganoderic acid
gatnon
gefahr
go nap
Godwinians
guberniya
high temperature
high value low weight cargo
industrialized production in agriculture
internal caliber gauge
interval map
issoires
joint snake
kegerators
lactation atrophy
laminarising
landing floating bridge
large bore tube
line of sight propagation
Magbuntuso
magnetic flux sensor
map feature code
metastable region
minimum workable thickness
Minmoletkat
mobile steam generator
munch out
natural cycle system
nicopyron
nishida-kitaro
Norepirenamine
numerical techniques
ostracion tuberculatus
Pacificward
paradors
phenyllobelol
philosophy of the Academy
plane of vibration
ply for hire
possessums
potassium bismuth tartrate
practitioner-researcher
primary folding
Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair
radioisotope monitor
ramularia boehmeriae fujiwara
regenderings
regenerative reflector
resail
revent
roatan
Rocaltrol
sanctionist
scatter shield
selfdrive
seraphic
shd
shoulder-wing aircraft
shuttle chute
smart-allecky
spherizer
São Francisco, R.
tunicae subserosa tubae uterinae
unamortized debt discount
unificatory
vomerine tooth
zygapophsis