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
accident disposal
advance angle of ignition tester
advance deposit requirement on import
algren
analytic method
antiaditis
asamblea
assertiveness training
automatic pick
azo indicator
Barber-hairdresser
basic measure
bioterrorisms
brachypterois serrulata
built-in Zener protection
calathian violet
Camas Valley
cavitation tank
civil authority
clock jump
commutuality
cotton bag
crosshead cottar
defensive purchase
diffusing air hole
diode transformator
draw oneself up
EIA-530
finished piece
flow improver
fluctuation correction factor
foliage plants
foundationer
French Sudan
freshly cut
fry bread
furcations
fuzzy modus ponens
generator on charge
globular interface
gradient type tea stalk-sorting machine
hand lead sounding
high-temperature belt
honey of various flowers
hydraulic profile
ice alga
ice-glazed
ifosfamide
indexed sequential access mode
joy disk
katholicismus
largescale culture
llano estacado (staked pln.)
lyinger
Maentwrog beds
mean british thermal unit
meier-graefe
menticirrhus littoraliss
metal incusion
Mini-pe
mouses
MTR (mean time to repair)
multi protocol label switching
non-stabilized rate
nycterin
oil of the sick
onset-rime
palikar
parts cost
pits of the stomach
plummer block
Pompe's disease
post-investments
precompressed wood
quasi-crystalline structure
quick-mix
quirogas
radiation fluxmeter
recently-launched
reservoir regulation computation for irrigation
rhoes
ring-billed gull
RSA encryption technique
schwarzer zeolith
self shutting hinge
sludge scraper
steno's gland
sulfurless
superorders
take a curtain call
tea cards
tricolor television tube
tsks
twisted curve
two-beam coupling
unobtrusively
used-book
viib
weidel
weiland
whoom
zecchinos