时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(三月)


英语课

[1] The head of Toyota is apologizing to the American people for safety lapses 1 that led to a number of deaths and widespread recalls. Akio Toyota appeared Wednesday before Congress where he also disputed claims that electronics were to blame for the cars' woes 2


 


[2] The teacher who tackled a gunman at a Colorado middle school is lamenting 3 that he didn't act soon enough. Two people were shot and injured in the incident. Bond for the suspect has been set at a million dollars. 


 


[3] The Senate has passed a 35-billion-dollar jobs bill it hopes will get the economy on track. The bipartisan measure gives businesses tax cuts and 1,000-dollar credit when they hire the unemployed 4


 


[4] A snowboarder is lucky to be alive after he was caught in an avalanche 5. The man was able to recall his ordeal 6 as he snowboarded and slid through at all. He also says the snow itself pushed him away from the rocks.   


 



n.失误,过失( lapse的名词复数 );小毛病;行为失检;偏离正道v.退步( lapse的第三人称单数 );陷入;倒退;丧失
  • He sometimes lapses from good behavior. 他有时行为失检。 来自辞典例句
  • He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. 他可以宽恕突然发作的歇斯底里,惊慌失措,恶劣的莫名其妙的动作,各种各样的失误。 来自辞典例句
困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉
  • Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
  • She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
adj.悲伤的,悲哀的v.(为…)哀悼,痛哭,悲伤( lament的现在分词 )
  • Katydids were lamenting fall's approach. 蝈蝈儿正为秋天临近而哀鸣。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Lamenting because the papers hadn't been destroyed and the money kept. 她正在吃后悔药呢,后悔自己没有毁了那张字条,把钱昧下来! 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡
adj.失业的,没有工作的;未动用的,闲置的
  • There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
  • The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。
n.雪崩,大量涌来
  • They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。
  • Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。
n.苦难经历,(尤指对品格、耐力的)严峻考验
  • She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
  • Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。
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aluminum gaskat
beyond bearing
Blackadder
blind-ending
broad leaved
cancel from an account
capital and liquidity requirement
cartridge filter
casting technique
chemisms
Chire (Shire), R.
circular-tool
cisternal
clangier
clasmatosis
coatable
coelosomus
collapse field of mangnetic bubble
continuous front slagging spout
conventional method
Coulmier-le-Sec
critical parameter of flow
Dakshin Jāmsa
debt-fuelled
depth of zone
deving
Dianthus ramosissimus
dieli
dimenhydrinates
dramseller
dropperful
economics of pasteurization
electro diagnosis
endear
eolian deposition
exceed-infiltration rainfall intensity
fairy armadillo
follow - up studies
fully-fledged
hells to pay
hydrogen-bridged ion
inter-industries
ion synergism
ISCCO
Jegłownik
journey to work
Kebayoran-Baru
land clearance
landing circle
law interpretation
legislative assembly
line of saturation
Lisfranc's joint
lovinia
LWYS
Lýtingstadhir
mangnetosonic wave
Mashu-ko
Mauriac, Claude
medial necrosis
Meloidae
melonite
metal pulverization
Min Min lights
Mokhsogollokh
monarchist
Montemurlo
Morse-Smale system
nauplia
naviculocuneiform
neotropical fauna
Newton's cradle
Nojon-bong
nuchas
oil of pepper
pile loading test
playfeer
pleomorphy
plunger assist mechanism
plyrating
postprandial hypoglycemia
power fail/auto restart
pre-breakdown state
present a paper
put in a hole
radiotelegraph installation
rate tracking
raunges
rocker of injector pump
rothsteins
rubber dingey
spraying nozzle
star tracking
sweet potato chip
templestowe
thermal neutron leakage factor
Thesium
ticilimumab
transverse electrooptic effect
unharmed fruit
uremic coma
white supremacists