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
abscissus
abukir bays
Addison anaemia
AK-Poly-Bac
al lagowa (el lagowa)
Albizzia lebbeck
Alger, B.d'
alma maters
amphisome
anode dark space
antitrust case
at first blush
bastardy bond
beat note signal
bijou problemette
bleach agent
Boletus luridus
cardfile
centrifugal relay
corporate-style
Crystal Lake
cumulus folicle
cut a curvet
diplomatic correspondence
direct induction heating
dominant firm price leadership
effeminately
egg donor
electric curly hair
electroacoustic
eucarpy
exorcises
felsyte
ganisa postica formosicola
Gavorrano
gin tackle
gordan
gutturotetany
hall mibility
Hjaltastadhur
hornsnake
hydrocirrus
In Memoriam stanza
informer's privilege
inhibitor for nitrification
initial steam pressure
inland desert
jumping plant lice
Kasongo-Lunda
lampitt
Leontopodium micranthum
Lokaro
medianoscopy
members
michel neys
mirzoeffs
modal acceleration
moscovian series
mosks
nail-bomb
Naked Shorting
Natural gas hydrates
odontopathy
open-land
oxide accretion
P. B.
Pinckney's Treaty
plastic component
puseys
push-out induction crucible furnace
quaver rest
rally to
rapturing
read/write access mode
Renanthera sinica
repat
rescripts
revoking
richard buckminster fullers
semi-legendary
sixty-first
snowcoves
solid fin
Solodniki
space recipe
strengthened shell
tablesize
tar-pavement
tazettamine
teralumens
tetanising
three aspects
through lamella
universal real type
unmatchable
Vena gastroomentalis dextra
veneer case
verrucous pachydermia
water permeability of coated fabric
well-thought-of
Wilcoxon's sign rank test
working environment