时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十一)月


英语课

1. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama make their last-minute pleas 1 to voters days before Election Day. McCain says Obama is running for redistributor in chief while Obama told radio listeners his election would change the world.


2. Obama's aunt is living in the United States illegally in Boston, instructed to leave four years ago by an immigration judge denying her request for asylum 2 from her native, Kenya. Obama says he did not know she was here illegally.


3. At least 29 people died in Pakistan from a suspected US missile strike on two villages near the Afghanistan border. A senior Taliban official narrowly escaped the attack.


4. Chicago is remembering Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, capturing the city in the pages of his best-selling oral histories. Terkel died Friday. He was 96.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. instruct: v.


to officially tell someone what to do.


2. asylum: n.


protection given to someone by a government because they have escaped from fighting or political trouble in their own country.


 



借口( plea的名词复数 ); (被告或被告律师的)抗辩; (法庭中的)理由; 请愿
  • He sent her away without even listening to her pleas. 他甚至不肯听她的哀诉就把她遣走了。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • Shousheng came out and added his pleas to Mr. Lin's. 寿生也来了,帮着林先生说。 来自汉英文学 - 林家铺子
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
学英语单词
acid-resistant stoneware container
actinic rays
air superiority fighter
alae scale
alpha-Chloroacetophenone
ambicide
amplifier-type voltage regulator
anthrax
azygospore, azygosperm
bandpass random process
beekie
bitten-to-the-quick
Bloch bands
buccinoid
buyer-clients
candida inconspicua
chromatophagus
Chun-ying
civil remedy
Clastobryum
consumptively
controlled foreign trade
cotzaym
Dactylomyia
dendrophylliids
digital analogy
double cover plate joint
elaboration of task specification
engineering staff
Espita
fibre optic bronchoscope
fisheating
garbing
geared turbine engine
genderings
highly-stressed
homeoid
homothetic conic
human-being
infantilizers
injury of facial soft tissue
J car
Kanbyin
keep to the straight and narrow
kolkhozes
landway
laser-ranging
Latinophone
leguleian
line analyzer
lobulus semilunaris superior
low-frequency direction finder
mercator projections
mesosigmoidopexy
microcomputer operating system
monopoly earning
need hierarchy
neglecter
normal xrf operations
Oshkur'ya
osterlind
over-engineering
overbearing
overfolding
overlay denture
overmeddles
pianola roll
pickueer
pilastrade
pipe bit
Safrā' as Sark
second-order model
sellapunch
septembres
short-time overload test
shuckle
single-head straight socket wrench
single-lip wiper
solids removal line
solifluctiontongue
sound flux
spinal retractor
spindle type elevating machine
ST_changing-and-not-changing_changing-frequently
structured COBOL
submicrosample
suclofenide
synocytotoxin
synthesis cycle
tab settings
Tapezco
the original position
Topokain
transport of liquid
trematopsid
twelfe
undersea telephone system
United Brethren
Vaagsfjoreden
vocational rehabilitation act
whole grain
worksite