时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2010


英语课

On this date in 1856, a grassroots anti-establishment, low government political movement convened 1 in Philadelphia to nominate its first presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore, the party was called the Know-Nothings.


On this date in 1861, a grassroots anti-establishment, low government political movement convened in Montgomery to inaugurate its first leader Jefferson Davis.  That group was the Confederate States of America.  What a coincidence.


Let‘s play “Oddball.”


We begin in Britain with Murdoch‘s Sky News coverage 2 of the Obama-Biden stimulus 3 availability


yesterday.  Anchor Kay Burley discussing the U.S. economy with correspondent Greg Milam.  Neither of them realizing it was the first day of Lent also known by Catholics as Ash Wednesday.


 


-Waiting for Joe Biden to introduce the president within the next few moments.  The vice 4 president as you said—what happened to his head?  I’m sure that’s what everybody’s asking at home.


-He’s been up to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics and was the face of the administration there.  So, whether there was some accident or what little incidents being up in Vancouver, we don’t know.


-It’s probably happened on those T trace down the lounge or something.  Certainly, it looks like quite a bruise 5, doesn’t it?  Anyway—


You see what happens, Henry VIII—you see what happens when you kicked out the Catholic Church? Forget about that Papal assignment you two are hoping for.  Eventually, somebody called in.  She apologized, claimed she was a very bad Catholic and went to break.


Speaking of breaks, Internets LOL, and keeping with fashion week here in New York, there’s a fashion show from some other location on the planet.  Two models strutting 6 their stuff on the runway, on the runway, styling the latest trends with this fall, or make that one model styling the latest—medic?



1 convened
召开( convene的过去式 ); 召集; (为正式会议而)聚集; 集合
  • The chairman convened the committee to put the issue to a vote. 主席召集委员们开会对这个问题进行表决。
  • The governor convened his troops to put down the revolt. 总督召集他的部队去镇压叛乱。
2 coverage
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
3 stimulus
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
4 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 bruise
n.青肿,挫伤;伤痕;vt.打青;挫伤
  • The bruise was caused by a kick.这伤痕是脚踢的。
  • Jack fell down yesterday and got a big bruise on his face.杰克昨天摔了一跤,脸上摔出老大一块淤斑。
6 strutting
加固,支撑物
  • He, too, was exceedingly arrogant, strutting about the castle. 他也是非常自大,在城堡里大摇大摆地走。
  • The pompous lecturer is strutting and forth across the stage. 这个演讲者在台上趾高气扬地来回走着。
学英语单词
abbr., abbrev.
adauge
ajzen
alphabetic word
aphthovirus foot and mouth disease virus sat3
apitheraoy
arietellus aculeatus
automatic stop valve
banyan trees
bardonecchia
battles of britain
ben-david
Beneuron
Bersmulen
black-and-white cine negative film
boats and ships
bow beam
Brantice
bridge erection by floating method
bus-organized structure
calakmul
callitris cupressiformiss
chemical slide rule
colir comparator pyrometer
color card
commercial-property
cross resistance
cross-dressers
Dar Ben Karricha el Behri
deed paper
direct product of sheaves
Domei
draelos
earnings in foreign exchange
eczematous pannus
Eferon
epitaxial silicon growth
experimental accuracy
extra-low carbon steel
final gear reduction
fluidized-bed combustion boiler
glasschords
glycotransferase
golden handcuffs
gypsum-bandage
hornet's
hurryed
I beg to differ.
i-rungen
increase income
inter marker group sender
intershells
israelson
kamancheh
Kazakhstan, Republic of
kinetosome
linkage tree
live among
lolita complex
Ludfordian
machine-controlled
machine-sensible information
makea case for
Marshfield Hills
medium-speed diesel engine
methyl violet dye
MFC (manual frequency control)
microcommand language
middle of the roader
mobile verification office
mold coating material
molybdate orange
muhammads
musculi dilatores spiraculorium
nogging
nonactivists
nonrandom deviation
notye
orange-peel grab
patency
Phoebe nanmu
pic and gs
pituitary coma
reachable vertex
reading enriches the mind
requested
sarah brightman
servant
shallow sea deposit
Solanum hidetaroi
somatization
source program level
subclinical
superfluidities
support utility
teles
transmission laue method
unloosably
useful value
volumetric loss
wet filling
yemfs