时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2008年(十二)月


英语课

Good morning on this Christmas Eve, I'm Reggie Aqui from the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
 
The Wall Street is limping toward the end of what has been a brutal 1 year for stocks. The Dow lost 100 points on Tuesday. US markets will close early this afternoon and won't reopen until the day after Christmas.


Who is on Santa's naughty list this year? A CNN opinion research poll finds Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is the naughtiest politician in 2008, followed by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and then former senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards.


The former Utah state trooper who police say is a suspect in Monday's deadly rush-hour shootings in Dallas is now in a hospital. Police say 37-year-old Brian Smith tried to commit suicide and he is now in serious condition at a local hospital. Police used ballistics test that links Smith to shootings where one driver was killed and another injured.


The IRS says it conducted more audits 2 this year than last, but collected nearly five percent less in taxes. It says it collected just under 56 and a half billion dollars for 2008. Your best bet for getting audited 3 this year was if you were in the income bracket between 200, 000 and a million dollars.


A Mexican beauty queen is in custody 4 after police say she was found riding in a car with 7 heavily armed men and more than 50, 000 dollars in cash. The group was stopped outside a checkpoint in Central Mexico. The 23-year-old model and the men now face arms charges. The model reportedly told police that she was traveling with the men to go shopping.


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naughty list



1 brutal
adj.残忍的,野蛮的,不讲理的
  • She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
  • They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼,骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
2 audits
n.审计,查账( audit的名词复数 )v.审计,查账( audit的第三人称单数 )
  • Requires that use of all bond funds is subject to independent audits. 需要使用的所有债券基金是受独立审计。 来自互联网
  • Support the locations during customer-visits, audits and quality-improvement programs. 支持客户参观,稽核和提高品质等项目。 来自互联网
3 audited
v.审计,查账( audit的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The accounts have to be audited by a firm of external auditors. 这些账目必须由一家外聘审计员的公司来稽查。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • E. g. few if any charities collection publishes audited accounts. 例如很少义款收集有公布经过查核的帐目。 来自互联网
4 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
学英语单词
(terthiophen)yl
abettal
activation block
aglyconic
Almquist unit
amount limit
at-class
automatic sensing display flag
Auvergnese
Boltzman distribution law
chromizes
cobefrin
common emitter junction phototransistor
compass of competency
cotton scarlet
current weighted index
dangl
debused
delayed plan position indicator
deodorization by water wash
digital audio workstation
duterte
dysostosis enchondralis metaepiphysaria
ectendotrophic mycorrhiza
exterior trim
facies sphenomaxillaris
first-aid surgery
front connection type
fullwave rectifier
gamma-loop
garbage-fired boiler
gas train
gigatesla
gradient charge
gummatous proctitis
halfcycle
hanlawhile
heterotropia
high sensibility tester
hoon
ice thrust
inner-bark borer
insistency
integrated programming environment
ketocaine
Kouilou, Rég. du
lake inlet
lateralisation
leak finding
let me
lipofibromatosis
loess-like loam
low yield per mu
masking film
MCA (maximum credible accident)
media necrosis
methylpiperidinopyrazole
microreactor activity
mid-mounted mower
moral framework
nanoswitches
nonperpendicularity
nucleophilic gene
observable vector
oratosquilla fabricii
over-exerted
Pandaceae
paper-grade talc
passive transport
phon(o)-
Piseco
polychrones
prefix expression
primary high explosive
pustuloulcerating
Puyehue, Vol.
recuperation heat
ren lobatus
rotary scanning spectroscope
Rupert Brooke
seed longevity
serum prothrombin
served as
sighting telescope
smelt up
solar absorption refrigerating machine
symmetrize
tackle purchase
tend-toward
tetramates
Tinia
transfer standard
tunica albuginea corporis spongiosi penis
UNIF (uniformity)
upward-stroke
urkel
viscotiol
wash-water
water in oil test
water-immiscible
well-tanned
young tableau