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
-souled
Abe Lincolns
acronitrile-butadiene-styrene
advertising management
aerobic-exercises
alchornea trewioides formosae
amplitude segmentation
animal dyes
Anotoceras
arts-and-crafts
attack cargo ship
be free with
be no skin off sb.'s back
before someone's very eyes
Bethe-Tait excursion
blaze
blows my mind
blushfully
bottle coal
bougainville trenches
carriage porch
cascade buncher
cellopentose
cracking stability
diodati
dread disease insurance
drift-netted
dump(ed) packing
elliptic(al) waveguide
Entamoeba coli
erasements
Euler product formula
evreuxes
fancy's child
ferrocarbon titanium
finger-length measurement
flamengo
galvanized wire-receiving machine
general infection
genus partheniums
glazed ice
half-opened
Hands off!
hard clams
hybrid power operational amplifier
ibm pc xt
ileotomies
incremental vector
kakosmia
kayhew
L-scope
law of the place of tort
low weight codeword
make one's point
materials, repair, operation
microcode language
Mojave R.
nozzle of oxygen lance
nuclear safeguard
O'Beirne's sphincter
objects as frbr group 3 entity
ordinary heald
outseam
outspanning
pace tua
package standard
parajamesonite
passer-flamingo
pen plotter emulation program
perfidy
phantasize
power absorption constant
purchasing work load
reflowers
resorptive effect
rigid-axle type suspension
scelerat
sense of contact force
servo modulator
somnoriferous
sperber
sterrile
tea chest bass
Telelock
tharos
Tisiphone
tool bearing
torsion of caecum
two-dimensional stress system
uniqueness theorem for entropy
united states navies
upon examination
vagliano
voice over
void area fraction
von Hansmann cell
Warrant Coverage
waterway transportation
waveless hull form
wild bank
xenohistocompatibility
Yiddishism