时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十)月


英语课

1.Gay 1 rights supporters took to the streets of Washington, demanding President Barack Obama keep his promises to allow gays 2 to serve openly in the military. Thousands marched from the White House to the US capital. Activists 3 have planned a 50-state tour, pushing for increased civil rights protection.


2.Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish Boy Band Boyzone died while on vacation in Spain. The cause of death is not known. Gately was in Mayorca with his partner Andrew Cowles who were wed 4 in a civil union in 2006.


3.The price for a gallon of gas continues to fall. It is down more than four cents a gallon over the past two weeks. The national Lundberg Survey put a gallon of gas at $2.47, the cheapest place for gas is Cheyenne, Wyoming, where it will cost you $2.16 a gallon to fill up.


4.The Philadelphia Phillies are one step closer to a return trip to the National League Championship Series. The Phils beat the Rockie 6-to-5 last night, taking a 2-1 series lead. The Angels and the Yankee


finished off their series and will meet in the  ALCS.




adj.同性恋的;色彩鲜艳的;n.(男)同性恋者
  • I don't know he was a gay person.我不知道他是同性恋者。
  • Spring comes round to the earth again and everything looks fresh and gay.春回大地,万象更新。
同性恋者(尤指男性)( gay的名词复数 )
  • Gays might be excused for thinking their president was doing the same. 考虑到总统的讲话也与鸭叫相似,同性恋们可以被谅解。
  • Several European countries halted extraditions of Iranian gays backcountry following the executions. 一些欧洲国家停止向伊朗引渡将被判处死刑的伊朗同性恋者。
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.娶,嫁,与…结婚
  • The couple eventually wed after three year engagement.这对夫妇在订婚三年后终于结婚了。
  • The prince was very determined to wed one of the king's daughters.王子下定决心要娶国王的其中一位女儿。
学英语单词
acardias
Adephos
advisory funds
aflatoxins M
aluminum plant
Angerboda
Antichristic
aphthovirus
appeal against a charge
appellativeness
aquanaut work
arch contour
astragaluss
batching by weight
Bragg-Gray principle
butt cable
c-series
character specifier
charge storage flip-flop
chargehouse
consistency limit
copy-protections
deaf theater
desire of
double-sideband multiplex equipment
dray-horses
dummy pill
eddr
electric performance
entocythere
erratic variation
eye-brain system
fazzini
fertilizer unit
fifty-second
flash back voltage
FTIR-Ramanbb
fueling-defueling system
gas fuel nozzle
half-days
hand tester
have belief in
heavy dumper
Inspector Poo-sow
iophobia
Klisura
leakage testing socket
lethal dose (LD)
line-of-sight course
linear wave
locomotive repair in works
loppered
man-induced factor
massicotite
Maurer's nomogram
maybelle
mechanical thermal conversion
Monticelli d'Ongina
Mutāli'
Myodin
niobium-stabilized
noncondom
onto something
oological
otono
P.V. diagram
Pan-Asianism
penalty kill
phosphatidate
phrenicoabdominal branches
piston unit area power
positive air pressure control
post-detection integral
purple osier
push-back
pyxine sorediata
ramera
reputational
responsible cabinet
returned cheque
revenues from special assessment
rolling speed control
rotary planing
Ruffini cylinder
saccharine vegetable
San Jaime
scissortailed flycatcher
segur
Semenchenko
shuttle feeler bracket
somesthesis
sports-minded
successour
time multiplexed system
toggle-type tablet machine
trichroic mineral
tubotaiwine
twigil
Vanoise, Messif de la
variable speed generator
Yandina
yard arm group