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
accelerated death benefit
acoustooptic Q-switching
atomistic structure
auxiliary controls
banfi
basic grade
bawdiness
Belenkaya
Bettmar
Blagomir
bull city
Chernogorsk
coaling ship
coefficient of optimism
creep-fed
curatives
damage analysis
deal someone a poor deck
dense medium solids
derivatives-trading
Dermatophilus
derrick block
economics of shipbuilding
enterotoxaemias of sheep
foot ball
forced seal
galvanostats
gavelled
genetic manipulation
get in their face
gospell
Guinier-Preston zone
hebeosteotomy
heliosheath
Heynea
hydrolysed
hypoaesthesia
Ilex nitidissima
innebulated
inobservances
Izhevskoye
j-hook
JavaSpaces
Jeroboams
kids kin
MagicGate
Manzanedo
massive osteolysis
mature product strategy
median-plane field
microculturally
mingin'
mistransliteration
monovisioned
move to shipping
Mūlānābād
N-channel
nepotistically
network UNIX system
nonbarbecued
nonfraternities
normal control
omnibus hearing
operation of controller
payment on deferred terms
photosource
Piaf
pipa dorsigera
portrayers
pull the wool over someone's eyes
pully-haul
rate of cooling-air flow
reading carrel
relation type
rete mirabiles
road trips
robust association of massive baryonic objects
rovaniemi
science-technology industrial park
seed cleaning apparatus
set the Thames on fire
shit fuckas
Sorbus medogensis
Sourou, Prov.de
squeeze by
squeezing restrainer
sulfapirazinmetossina
supercontig
tantalum pentabromide
tape preamplifier
thalictricine
topliner
travel-sicknesses
United States Merchant Marine Academy
uptook
utility commissions
verifies
vibrosinking
wet-edge time
work like a nailer
Wuma
yellow-brown soil