时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2012(五月)


英语课

 1. North Carolina is voting Tuesday on a constitutional amendment 1 defining marriage as solely 2 between a man and a woman. More than 500,000 voters have already cast early ballots 3.


 
 
 
2. A showdown vote looms 4 in the Senate as lawmakers go on record about preventing federal student loan interest rate from doubling for millions of students.
 
 
 
3. The latest take on the underwear bomb is being examined at the FBI's explosives lab in Virginia. The device did not contain mental, but it is not clear whether new body scanners could detect it.
 
 
 
4. A jury in Michigan will hear opening statements in the trial of a man accused of going on a stabbing rampage two years ago. The 49-year-old suspect is charged with three murders and six attempted murders in the Flint area.

n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
adv.仅仅,唯一地
  • Success should not be measured solely by educational achievement.成功与否不应只用学业成绩来衡量。
  • The town depends almost solely on the tourist trade.这座城市几乎完全靠旅游业维持。
n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 );选举;选票;投票总数v.(使)投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )
  • They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.织布机( loom的名词复数 )v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的第三人称单数 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近
  • All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙,男的耕田,女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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学英语单词
airplane wheel
Apache pine
basic input
benting time
billetless
blood line
breakdown reverse voltage
car suspension cable
caulerpa microphysa
check up on someone
Ciano
commemoration
cross-sensitization
de Brujin graph
distress system
door's handle out of order
draught-strips
electromechanically operated fingers
electronic motor control
end knob
eruciform
facial pigmented nevus
fanshel
ferrudalf
fibe full width impregnating mangle
flushing rubefaction
fundamental lattice
gaberlunzie
gaussian distribution of errors
general file translator
genus Gastrocybe
glucorprotein
graded rhythmite
gravity-gradient satellite
Grotrian diagram
had sticky fingers
hand upon the rear of
helborside
Holy Temple
in a haze
Indian dimity
individual proprietorship
induction ammeter
infusorial earth
integral dependence
international legal system
issuable
jackarooing
Japanese rice ball
kataseismic onset
Kujukuri
Lazdijai
leaf blast
magnisite
marine zooembryology
mesoerythrit
Midikel
mitochondrion (pl. mitochondria)
natural-fiber
nonincendiary
null hypotheses
Nzérékoré
offical trial
ouachitas
partial recursive predicate
pelecyora excisa
pop-eyeds
pressed metal section
prothrombins
puck handling
quartz spectroscope
quick repairwasher
quil
radio telemetry and remote control
RAND J. Econ.
reactance tube modulator
red weevil
redpoll
regulatory governance
residue Lie ring
retractible
root-eating insect
rotamicillin
sciatic bursa of gluteus maximus
secretaries of defense
segregation unit
sequential logic control
short-wave corrugation
slide block
smidgin
spun protein
stabinol
static random access memory
Sterigmatomyces
subdominant harmony
subhauler
substantiously
Sunart, Loch
sweet iron
visby rules
vitamin b (b complex)
weather vaning capability