时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

Britney Spears is kicking off her first tour in five years promoting her latest hit album Circus before an adoring hometown audience with jugglers, acrobats 1, rings of flame and lip syncing(1). The pop star is in the process of a major comeback after a high-profile meltdown that included stints 2 in psychiatric care, an ugly divorce, shaving her head and partying without panties. The Circus-theme tour makes stops in 44 cities.


 


U2 just released its first album since 2004 this week. But the Irish rock band is already planning a quickie follow-up next year. Lead singer Bono says the new disc will be called Songs of Ascent 3 and will be more mellow 4 than the current album.


 


Ex-Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are reportedly said to perform together at a charity concert next month. Sir Paul will headline the event that will take place at Radio City Music Hall.


 


Horror flick 5 fans will get a chance to own the score(2) to Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Psycho. The 20-page document is being auctioned 6 later this month and includes the shrieking 7 violin notes to the film's famous shower scene.


 


In Los Angeles, I'm John Russell for Reuters.


 



1 acrobats
n.杂技演员( acrobat的名词复数 );立场观点善变的人,主张、政见等变化无常的人
  • I was always fascinated by the acrobats at the circus. 我总是着迷于马戏团里的杂技演员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The acrobats' performance drew forth applause from the audience. 杂技演员的表演博得了观众的掌声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 stints
n.定额工作( stint的名词复数 );定量;限额;慷慨地做某事
  • He stints himself in [of] sleep. 他节制睡眠。 来自辞典例句
  • She never stints herself of money to buy books for her children. 她从不吝惜掏钱让子女们买书。 来自互联网
3 ascent
n.(声望或地位)提高;上升,升高;登高
  • His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.他的社会地位提高之迅速令人吃惊。
  • Burke pushed the button and the elevator began its slow ascent.伯克按动电钮,电梯开始缓慢上升。
4 mellow
adj.柔和的;熟透的;v.变柔和;(使)成熟
  • These apples are mellow at this time of year.每年这时节,苹果就熟透了。
  • The colours become mellow as the sun went down.当太阳落山时,色彩变得柔和了。
5 flick
n.快速的轻打,轻打声,弹开;v.轻弹,轻轻拂去,忽然摇动
  • He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
  • By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下,将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
6 auctioned
v.拍卖( auction的过去式和过去分词 )
  • It was sad to see all grandmother's lovely things being auctioned off. 眼看着祖母那些可爱的东西全都被拍卖掉,心里真不好受。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • TV franchises will be auctioned to the highest bidder. 电视特许经营权将拍卖给出价最高的投标人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 shrieking
v.尖叫( shriek的现在分词 )
  • The boxers were goaded on by the shrieking crowd. 拳击运动员听见观众的喊叫就来劲儿了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They were all shrieking with laughter. 他们都发出了尖锐的笑声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
A. E. Housman
Abhinavagupta
accordance loss of detector
active microresonators
aldocortin
aluminum heat exchanger
Armco culvert
as bare as the back of one's hand
avania
axial-tension
Bao Ha
Behbehan
blanched garlic leaves
Bradley method,the
Calomic
Caribbean Sea (Caribe, Mar)
chaced
chresonymy
cinnamomeus
communers
compensation for personal services
corol.
diddicoy
distendest
DLCS
docking stations
dopiaza
double-width
duchon
dwell of cam
ecliptic poles
el qata (al qutah)
etheredge
european shrikes
externally applied agent
file log
flour all risks clause
flow upset
fore-handed
gollumish
grimland
h(a)ematocrit
h.f. heating high frequency heating
Hans Christian
hemiepilepsy
hemizygous stage
Hochschildite
input cutoff frequency
issue par
leather jacket
metaplexin
moisat
multicuspids
multiple random variables
Nepuyo
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Région
nutritional survey
nylon letdown
obligatory arbitration
ocellatus
off-line computer
osteoplastic rhinoplasty
osteostracans
penneys
photographic density
pick-your-own
pittet
Populus iliensis
pot-shot
protective pad
raises the bar
ramshorns
Real Application Cluster
roborative
rose-acacia
rubble bed
s.r.r.l.(southern regional research laboratory)
Saas
scowl
shallow shell
Shi'ification
sickleleaf acacia
sikh
sit at the feet of someone
Sjφrslev
status convulsivus
strigulated
stroom
tetraauricupride
thixomoulding
toled
Trehalose-Mannitol
triethylene glycol caprylatecaprate
trunk amplifier
V5
validity in terms of the person
variable potential source
washing-line
williard
wrightii
yezd
your mother is a whore