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
(fish) bait
11-Deoxy-17-ketosteroids
adobe lily
affluent society
Aid-the-poor programme
air-refueling device
Al Jibāl
american-borns
Angeln
asphalt balance
bambusaspis coronata
beginning height
blastotrix
call for the order of the day
care proceedings
choke input filter
control of relay
court of the union
cycloamyloses
decimal scaler
declared thrust
default format for random file
descriptive anthropologies
desk clerks
Dimethylsulphadiazine
Disphyllidae
dogtown
downconverting
Dul-Tone
electrically conductive glue
emitter selective digit
end point indicator
fastening-down temperature of rail
geologic thermometer
hadron calorimeter
hand-writings
hemolith
hepatitis A antigen
information appliance
ingordigious
inner ear dysplasia
insignis-pines
intermolecular attraction
lanner falcons
lathe treadle
letter of attorment
lissosphincter
manual stop valve
marine style
martenite
microgrants
mixed slack coal
neuromagnetic
noncryogenic
noninflecting
nonprivileged program
osteoglossiform
palatals
penalty free throw
posterior intermediate septum
present value of income from investment
psychedelic drugs
punde
pyrocotton
righting tank
rod elevator link
romergoline
rotation-deferred grazing
rouleaux
rowlinsons
Rumah
Salix calyculata
seize the time
semi-polar stationary phase
shabushabu
shallow recessing
shortage rate of goods
Sikkim spruce
spitten
square-law
stauropegic
step-input
stunt fliers
sub-woofers
symbolic input program
synoptic correlation
tannin mordanting
teals
technical and vocational education
tenther
terrestrial ball
That's my pigeon.
the buck stop here
tick tock
touchline
tremble dance
unseamanlike
valve cylinder
Ventr.
vernacular
Viraceae
Yacht Racing Association