时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2008年(十二)月


英语课

Hello to you, I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com Newsroom in Atlanta. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NOWS.



Israel is pounding Gaza with airstrikes for a second day in a row. Hamas militants 1 are the target and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the airstrikes could continue for some time. Hamas’s repeated rocket attacks into southern Israel prompted the Israelis into responding. Palestinian sources say at least 277 people have been killed.



One of the three members of the group Al-Qaeda in Iraq who escaped from a Ramadi jail Friday is dead, the other two men were rearrested early Sunday morning. The three are believed to be the masterminds behind the jailbreak. Forty prisoners escaped in the incident. Most of them have been recaptured.


The Iraqi government has given the final approval to a plan to keep non-U.S. foreign troops in Iraq past the U.N. mandate 2. That mandate expired Thursday. Iraq already approved a plan for US troops to remain there.



“Barack, the magic Negro, lives in DC. The L.A. Times, they called him that cause’ he is not authentic 3 like me.”



All right, I wanna let you know that's former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chip Saltsman's idea of satire 4. It is a song called "Barack the Magic Negro". The song and Saltsman are now both getting a lot of flacks from Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan. Duncan says the tune 5 is appalling 6. The song is on a parody 7 CD Saltsman sent to fellow RNC members. Saltsman is currently vying 8 for a top post within the RNC.



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1 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
2 mandate
n.托管地;命令,指示
  • The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
  • The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
3 authentic
a.真的,真正的;可靠的,可信的,有根据的
  • This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
  • Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。
4 satire
n.讽刺,讽刺文学,讽刺作品
  • The movie is a clever satire on the advertising industry.那部影片是关于广告业的一部巧妙的讽刺作品。
  • Satire is often a form of protest against injustice.讽刺往往是一种对不公正的抗议形式。
5 tune
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
6 appalling
adj.骇人听闻的,令人震惊的,可怕的
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions.恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • Nothing can extenuate such appalling behaviour.这种骇人听闻的行径罪无可恕。
7 parody
n.打油诗文,诙谐的改编诗文,拙劣的模仿;v.拙劣模仿,作模仿诗文
  • The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。
  • North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿,其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。
8 vying
adj.竞争的;比赛的
  • California is vying with other states to capture a piece of the growing communications market.为了在日渐扩大的通讯市场分得一杯羹,加利福尼亚正在和其他州展开竞争。
  • Four rescue plans are vying to save the zoo.4个拯救动物园的方案正争得不可开交。
学英语单词
aberrant thyroid in larynx
air bursts
amidases
anti-glare screen
Asiatic corn borer
bamboo pavillion
bank managerialics
bazaar bill rate
bergna
bipartite cleftpalate
bloomed
breccias
central nervous system (cns)
centrifugal catchall
cheque board scan
Chetazol
city-county
closing procedure
coded command
commerce department
Compton-Getting effect
contracting carrier
cymatium encausticum
dhaka (dacca)
direct reading pH meter
drilled hole
end wire
eutectic granite
falt colony
fides
final approach and takeoff area
forespoken
galacturonic acid
gernett
go with a buzz
gorno-badakhshan
half commission man
hand shaking grate
hands on hips
have in hand
Heegaard splitting
hemichromosome (darlington 1965)
Heptacodium miconioides
high-pressure gasification gases
hydrocolloid
incarnaion
Indiahoma
indulgings
internal-conversion source
japan sea type geosyncline
latent heat laod
lay oneself open to
leavens
legateships
ligamenta tarsale internum
LINAC (linear accelerator)
liquid droplet
loss in
lowtschorrite (mosandrite)
Lytensium
Lālūkhet
matrix of reachability
meteles
metrizable proximity space
mitchellville
molten salt electrolysis
Monjes del Norte, Is.
musante
need sth badly
nicodicodine
no great things
no.lolos
one-to-zero ratio
open reactor
packing up
peg counter meter
pigeon-pea
plexus mesentericus superior
reassurest
reference daily intake
remota
scoffage
sell one's life dearly
software control flag
special table of allowance
sudden huge profits
Sulphadimethoxine
tandem stabilizer
thannhauser
thermosetting yarn
Thiohalocapsa
thyronamin
torpedomen
Trichoplusiani
tritonoid
twin contact
ultrahigh access memory
vin ordinaires
votcloth
weight material
wormul
Zanthoxylum scandens