时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:国外媒体新闻


英语课

英国内阁日前爆出"报销门"丑闻,《每日电讯报》率先披露13名内阁成员涉嫌利用议员身份,骗取额外补
贴。"骗补"人数大约占内阁成员一半,其中包括现任首相戈登·布朗。


然而随着事件的深入调查,英国民众发现,涉嫌滥用公款的并不止这13人,"报销门"已经迅速扩散至整个工党内阁。此事在英国社会掀起轩然大波,势必令民望下滑的执政工党政府再面临舆论压力。


Pakistan says it will leave a curfew in the Swat Valley on Sunday to allow civilians 1 to leave the area. The army is mounting an offensive against Taliban militants 2. United Nations says more than half a million have fled their homes but many are trapped in the area and can not escape.
New President of South Africa Jacob Zuma has warned that the country can not escape the global recession and faces difficult economic times ahead. He was speaking after being swore in as the fourth president of the South Africa since the end of the protest.
Two Labor 3 MPs have said they are considering taking legal action against the Daily Telegraph, the publishing in accurate details about their expenses claimed. The newspaper says Margaret Moran claimed money for a second home that was not in London or her loot contingency 4. And the Immigration Minister Phil Woola was reimbursed 5 for women's clothing and nappies, both were denied any wrong doing.



1 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
2 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。
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
4 contingency
n.意外事件,可能性
  • We should be prepared for any contingency.我们应该对任何应急情况有所准备。
  • A fire in our warehouse was a contingency that we had not expected.库房的一场大火是我们始料未及的。
5 reimbursed
v.偿还,付还( reimburse的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Any out-of-pocket expenses incurred on the firm's business will be reimbursed. 由公司业务产生的开销都可以报销。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Employees are reimbursed for any legal fees incurred when they relocate. 员工调往异地工作时,他们可以报销由此产生的所有法律服务费用。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
abarticular
absorbance
achlya rodrigueziana
actually transmitted
agricultural electrification
air cushion support
allergic granulomatous reaction
allotherm
anticoagulin
approach-of-end-of-medium indicator
bedspread fabrics
Beg, Lough
benincasa hispida (thunb.) cogn.
body bloating
bold with
bouchons
built-in functions
bulb of retort
bulding
c.l.r
chain of egg insulators
channel change of river fork
chilled wheel
combustion initiator
consignment contract
crepey
cross magnetomotive force
design equation
dillying
Dimitronal
double dots
dsa
effective distance
erythrocytoschisis
eupacunin
ever-widening
expanding
feedwater softener
genus Vedalia
girder depth
growing consensus
hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide
hierarchy number
high-Albite
home-garden type
hunger without desire to eat
index-linked price
information behavioral pattern
interrupt button
intraperitoneal anesthesia
King Cole
lateral ligament of rectum
lithiums
ludek
lunar libration
macrophagy
make no bones of
manned spaceflight reconnaissance
marume plate
Mercy on me!
method of mean value
mollard
nycthemerons
off-rate
other insurance permitted
pattern process
penduliflora
Perthes' disease
petasuses
pikerism
point nose bent tool
QSRs
ratomorphic
read write check indicator
salpingograph
schroedinbugs
section lift
seedful
series-parallel compensation
sfsisvses-s
skandall
Sobinskiy Rayon
sophisticated
sots
spatially invariant system
Stanley Kubrick
Sukch'ǒn-gun
superconsciously
system of algebraic forms
three time estimates
transpiration-cooled
trivant
twohour
unorthodoxies
unwrought product
us gambling
vapor phase propylene polymerization
velocity, constant
wellthe
West Malaysia
winnecke
zona fasciculata