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
A-bone
acidoid(substance)
act of hope,charity,contrition
adhesion dyspepsia
alveated
ambosexous
answer extraction process
asclepias
audit planning and programming
Audresselleas
Bayard's ecchymosis
branchiogenital region
brauburger
bunchberries
Bush City
cash balance theory of money
cathartin
CD-videos
chenevixite
cinecolor
code-like
color-compensating
conveyances
corotrons
deeds of trust
despiseth
Drosophila melanogaster
ehu
Elclave
electric-harpoon
endarks
Enuclene
feedback regulator
field-mint
gamma-Thio-GTP
half-saturation time
hay manger
helmet connector
high speed data regeneration assembly
horizontal transverse wave
initiation of explosion
intices
intraepithelial
Kumon method for indican
l'estropiee
leukophthalmos
LF (levelizing factor)
main artillery
marginal business
MCV (minimum critical volume)
megaflop (mflop)
mesme
metaacetone
midn.
mixed-feed process
moment of wind pressure
multivariate equilibrium
mutually complementary
Nick Carter
no repair limit
non-cyanide plating
out of range value
paymaster-general
pennsylvanian periods
pile welding
pollution charge
poppet nozzle
preactions
put into service
quasi-instantaneous
radix aconiti feri
radure
rate of attendance
rated short-line fault breaking current
reresolves
reserved track
rhachicentesis
RVESVI
rwigyema
salt porks
satyr's dance (europe)
scenario prototype
scholde
seen that
semen strychni
slot and crank
snowbank mockorange
spinae tympanica minor
splatterfests
Ste-Colombe
Stora Höga
supervisory committee
supra macromolecule
syph
take up with someone
telescopic laminar displacement
trad-published
twelve-ounce curls
type definition part
vector model
violent pain
william byrds