时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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Obama Unveils the "First Puppy" " 第一犬" 亮相


The world has been watching US President Barack Obama closely since he took office in January this year to see whether he makes good on his promises about the economy, foreign policy and health care.


But closer to home, he has also been under pressure from his two daughters to keep one particular pledge: to give them a new dog as a reward for coping with his election campaign.


On Tuesday the nation's hotly-anticipated "first puppy" was unveiled. Named Bo, the shaggy-haired pooch is a six-month-old Portuguese 1 water dog which is black with a white chest, white goatee and white paws.


"He's got star quality" said President Obama as he and his family paraded the dog on the White House lawn in front of reporters.


He then joked, "I finally got a friend. It took some time," referring to Harry 2 Truman's famous line, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog."


The breed of dog is special in that it doesn't shed hair, and so is less aggravating 3 to his 10-year-old daughter Malia who suffers from allergies 4.


Water dogs are also bred to be strong swimmers and even have webbed feet, but as seven-year-old daughter Sasha pointed 5 out to reporters, "He doesn't know how to swim."


And while it may be the nation's "first puppy", President Obama left reporters in no doubt about who was top dog in the household. When asked where Bo would sleep, Obama replied "Not in my bed".


The dog was a gift from close family friend Senator Edward Kennedy. He said the breed would be a "perfect fit for the Obama family", as the dogs have a "can-do and hopeful spirit".


GLOSSARY 词汇表


took office 就任/上任


makes good on his promises 兑现承诺


foreign policy 外交政策


keep (one particular) pledge 信守(某一个)诺言


election campaign 竞选运动


hotly-anticipated 人们急切关注的


puppy 小狗


unveiled 公开,揭开


shaggy-haired pooch 毛发蓬松的小狗


goatee 山羊胡子


paraded 展示


breed 种类


shed hair 掉毛


aggravating 加重(病情)


allergies 过敏症


webbed feet 蹼足


top dog 主要人物,头面人物


household (整个)家庭


perfect fit 完美的搭配


can-do 能做到(的态度)



n.葡萄牙人;葡萄牙语
  • They styled their house in the Portuguese manner.他们仿照葡萄牙的风格设计自己的房子。
  • Her family is Portuguese in origin.她的家族是葡萄牙血统。
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
adj.恼人的,讨厌的
  • How aggravating to be interrupted! 被打扰,多令人生气呀!
  • Diesel exhaust is particularly aggravating to many susceptible individuals. 许多体质敏感的人尤其反感柴油废气。
n.[医]过敏症;[口]厌恶,反感;(对食物、花粉、虫咬等的)过敏症( allergy的名词复数 );变态反应,变应性
  • Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms. 食物过敏会引发很多不同的症状。 来自辞典例句
  • Let us, however, examine one of the most common allergies; hayfever. 现在让我们来看看最常见的变态反应的一种--枯草热。 来自辞典例句
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
学英语单词
Abel transformation
ACCIS
achernar
acral syringoma
advanced defense communication satellite
after-tax real rate of return
alexander hamiltons
anag
antiurolithics
arcing up
armadillidiid
arteriae gastroepiploica dextra
Ashotsk
attitude knowledge skill pattern
auto-compounded current transformer
Banitsa
bare terminal
betaoxidation
boat assignment table
buying cost
byard
caden
cagastrical
calla lilies
caries promoting diet
Carlisle B.
CEOI
chapmen
chest volume
coin-op
compensating-rope sheave safety switch
crest level
current exchange rate
decreasing order
diamand
doland
double account form of balance sheet
electric signal transducer
epdm-rubbers
Fibrase
glycosine
heater drain pump
Henry,O.
high-power-density reactor
homologized
inductively loaded antenna
inverted dome construction
japanise
Japonisms
kiro
Lambeth
leave the past behind
Les Baux-en-Provence
linsen bedding
majorization of iterative method
Mephanol
muncasters
neckmold
needle culture
nizhniye kresty (cherskiy)
non quantitative
nonreal-time system
not to give way
ouargla (warqla)
oxendine
palaeocoprology
paper-core enamelled type cable
pay-outs
pc-card
pedagogue,pedagog
Poisson input
position gage
print zones
projecting lamp
prostatisms
Proto-Iranian
pseudopodiospore
ranatensin
rated making current
s club
saddle-back
shooted
signal word
sodium gold chloride
spatial flight modulators
starting regime of a machine
subcarbonate
tangential grinder
tibial gland
up stripper
uprisings
urban spaces
vector error correction model (vecm)
vegetation plate
velarness
ventilation fan
video frequency signal generator
virtual machine interface
vitamin K-4
win a distinction for
X-ray crystallography
zerogel