时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(一)月


英语课

1. Lebanon's prime minister has condemned 1 rocket attacks on Israel from his country as well as retaliation 2 by the Jewish state. The brief exchange was the first since Israel launched an offensive against the militant 3 group Hamas in Gaza. That offensive is now on its 13th day with no let-up in sight.


2. Hundreds of people took part in protests following the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a transit 4 police officer in Oakland, California. Protesters are calling for criminal charges to be filed against the officer. Wednesday's protests led to the arrests of at least 15 people.


3. The Secret Service says there will be unprecedented 5 security for the inauguration 6 of President-elect Barack Obama. Bridges from Virginia into Washington will be closed to cars as well more than three square miles of downtown Washington. The security perimeter 7 covers more of the capital than previous inaugurations 8.


4. Tonight, the college football season comes to an end. The BCS championship game will be played in Miami between the Oklahoma Sooners and Florida Gators. Each team enters the game with just one loss.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. let-up: n.


when something unpleasant stops or becomes less difficult, severe etc


2. perimeter: n.


The perimeter of an area of land is the whole of its outer edge or boundary.


 



n.报复,反击
  • retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
  • He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
n.经过,运输;vt.穿越,旋转;vi.越过
  • His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
  • The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
adj.无前例的,新奇的
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
n.开幕、就职典礼
  • The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
  • Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。
n.周边,周长,周界
  • The river marks the eastern perimeter of our land.这条河标示我们的土地东面的边界。
  • Drinks in hands,they wandered around the perimeter of the ball field.他们手里拿着饮料在球场周围漫不经心地遛跶。
n.就职( inauguration的名词复数 );就职典礼;开始;开创
学英语单词
abrasive band
action of controller
all-bright
aluminium ethide
ambiguous case
Anaset
bottlehead
canning burst
cat tree
Cerbolite
chainwale
chloralacetoxime
Cinchona officinalis
collect one's faculty
compaignion
contection
cotton braid
cowpooling
debituminize
disultone
DPICM
Dubky
duty-paids
eccentric type vibrator
environment control in biology
evasion chart
expansion fog
explicit faith,explicit belief
family peridiniidaes
ferl
fifty cents
file layout
fink on sb
fire banked
fixed ratio (fr) schedule
flying height
garp atlantic tropical experiment (wmo/icsu) (gate)
Genseric
geopartners
Glinus
gloom-and-doomer
Godhafoss
Gorno-Chuyskiy
hailwoods
high pressure piston
Hope, R.
hostitutes
i will wait for you
infective pleurisy
intramammary pressure
iodanil
islands
kante
Larzel's anemia
legitime
leycesterias
liberal interpretation
literaryisms
Mayer sign
micronized clay
murp
musculi pterygoideus
myological
natural frequency
negativas
non-shattering glass
not give a two pins
oghma
oil-depth gauge
over-played
paler
phosacetim
picciarelli
playing-cards
postwomen
Pound, Louise
productive task
pseudacousma
purely infinite
rear parking stop and direction indicator lamps
regional sea level change
resident editor
Safe High Voltage connector
San Isidro, R.
scatologia
single thread sizing
skiable
slot tear
sphenofrontal suture
splitter switch
spot weld adhesive
sticky prices
storage adapter
straight smile
string-oriented instruction
substitutions of amino acids
swormstedt
takao
tally trade
undersea tunnel
unfledged
work of deformation