时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第三册


英语课

Lesson14 The Government of the United States
Washington, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kennedy — some of the great names of American history, the names of her presidents.
These days, the American President is one of the most powerful men in the world. He can make war, or peace. He can touch the lives of millions in many different countries, but the President cannot do just what he wants. The Congress must agree first.
In some ways, the United States is like fifty small countries and not one large one. Every state has its own governor, its own police, and its own laws. For example, in some states you can buy an alcoholic 1 drink when you are 18. In others, you must wait until you are 21.
The government of the whole country (the 'federal' government) works from Washington, the capital city. This is where Congress is based. Congress has two parts, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. There are 100 members of the Senate (called Senators), two from each state. The President cannot act without the Senate's agreement. The House of Representatives has 435 members. Like the senators, they can make new laws.
Americans choose a new President every four years. The election is a great occasion. It is serious business, of course, but the Americans make sure that it is fun too.


governor 州长
federal 联邦的
senate 参议院,上院


美国的政体
华盛顿、林肯、艾森豪威尔、肯尼迪——这些美国历史上赫赫有名的人物,都曾是美国的总统。
时至今日,美国总统是世界上最有权势的人物之一。他能发动战争,也可带来和平;他能触及诸多国家的几百万条性命,不过他也不可随心所欲。总统要做的事要事先得到国会的批准。
在某些方面,美国像是五十个小国而不是一个统一的大国。各州均有自己的州长、自己的警察和法律。比如,在有些州,年满十八岁可以买酒精饮料,但在其他州,要等到二十一岁才行。
整个国家的政府(联邦政府)办公地点在首都华盛顿,国会也在此。国会由两部分组成:参议院和众议院。参议院有一百名成员(称为参议员),每州两名。未经参议院同意总统不能采取任何行动。众议院有四百三十五名众议员。和参议员一样,他们可制定新法。
美国总统每四年选举一次。总统选举是个重要事件。它当然是很严肃的,不过美国人也会让其充满乐趣。



1 alcoholic
adj.(含)酒精的,由酒精引起的;n.酗酒者
  • The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.白兰地的酒精浓度远远超过葡萄酒。
  • Alcoholic drinks act as a poison to a child.酒精饮料对小孩犹如毒药。
学英语单词
4-Pyridoxate
adaptive predicative coding
aeromagnetic exploration
agrilus auropictus
Algerian Saharan Arabic
Alice-Josephine Pons
Anynet
Asian-Pacific Postal Union
autogreets
ballast scarifier
Barnby Dun
beat someone's head off
blade shielding
buccopharyngeal epithelium
bureau of the census
calculated gas velocity
call-sign
carinal canal
choke block
concealed-carry
conformal cylindrical projection
control integrated circuit
convexedness
cudi deresi
current market-value
cusp beach
cyphonantes
Dirico
disembargo
Divine Liturgy
dollkind
epidermal cancer
equation of radiative transfer
equatorial quantum number
expanding band clutch
facio-cervical lifting
fast-forwardeds
Featherville
film layer
first-naming
fixed-gate generator
fourbis
Frequency shift telegraphy.
Gcaleka
gigaspora pellucida
granitell
gutturalize
high-speed data
holiday homes
infilling well
initial ladders
Jasdorf
khaph
leasehold obligation
leather-wrapped
Ligamentum nuchae
look straight ahead
lymphocytotropic
malamanteaus
melinite
molecular make-up
neriene fusca
newly-publisheds
non-pollutive technology
of wide distribution
olax wightiana wall. ex wight et am.
opposite-field
optical length
ossa wormi
otitis mucosis
pendentive bracketing
polys
posttraumatic epilepsy
predicted values
propellant management device
pullinsi
rayetheon
re-call
roston
running torque-frequency characteristic
salt eutectic
slow-onsets
snecked rubble wall
solution casting
Spruceton
stomachings
Strikes Risks
stubblefield
survey of gender equality in the workplace
taisha
thick-knit
Trojanów
troubetzkoy
Valais, Alps
Verkhnyaya Taymyra
vitamin-e
water violets
wilted point
world market price
xerotropism
xiaojin mini-pills