时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

“Eminent domain” is the power of the government to take private property and use it for the public good. Government officials simply notify 1 a property owner that they want his property and offer him a fair price. The owner can accept or reject that offer. If he thinks the offer is too low, he can go to court. In court, a jury 2 will decide the fair price, which the government must pay.


Usually, the owner cannot prevent the government from taking his land for public use, which includes roads, schools, government buildings, and economic development. However, the US Supreme 3 Court recently expanded the meaning of “economic development” to include the construction of shopping centers, amusement parks, and even car washes. Property owners nationwide are now at greater risk of losing their property for the “private” good instead of the “public” good. They will see their land converted 4 to Burger Kings and Chevy dealerships instead of post offices and parks.


Just last week, the Ozark city council demanded that Johnny Miller 5 sell all his land to the city.


“It isn’t right,” said Miller. “My family has owned this property for four generations. We grow crops and raise cattle. We’re active in Ozark’s social clubs and civic 6 groups. Now the council wants to kick us out so that Walt Disney can build a new theme park here. I’m not selling. I’m going to fight this--since when is a mouse more important than an American family?”


 



1 notify
vt.通知,告知,报告
  • The court clerk will notify the witness when and where to appear.法院办事员将通知证人出庭的时间及地点。
  • He will notify us where we are to meet.他将通知我们在什么地方集合。
2 jury
n.陪审团,评委会;adj.临时用的;vt.挑选
  • These twelve men are believed to compose the jury.据信,陪审团是由这12人组成的。
  • The members of the jury were discharged from their duties.陪审员们被解除了职务。
3 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
4 converted
adj.更换信仰的,修改的v.(使)转变( convert的过去式和过去分词 );(使)转化;皈依;改变(信仰)
  • The hotel is going to be converted into a nursing home. 那家旅馆将被改建成私人疗养院。
  • He's living in a converted loft in lower Manhattan. 他住在下曼哈顿的一间改建的阁楼里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 miller
n.磨坊主
  • Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
  • The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。
6 civic
adj.城市的,都市的,市民的,公民的
  • I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
  • The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
学英语单词
3-methyl-2-cyclopentenone
anterolateral groove of spinal cord
AQCS (Analytical Quality Control Services)
art-style
be in blinkers
Benfeld
Bergading, Gunong
bexarotene
bioecologists
bridge mark
chalinid
climatic reaction
clorofenazole
contact acne
contract of mandate
contracted method
copper contact
creditor country
Delano
dimethylation
EDVAC(electron discrete variable automatic compiler)
entropy ratio map
Euclasterida
excudate
facing up to
farinaceous albumen
flake coffee
fluffing tendency
foot squared
free surface flow
furuto
fusion cast refractory
GAT-1
girllover
grayanotoxanes
hawes water
horizontal creel
Kali Yuga
Laser Dust Monitors
legists
leish
lift winch
light flash sensor
Lorain, John
maaseik
Mababe Dpr.
magnetostrictions
mckewen
McLellan
medievally
metal ink
miniature score
monochrome television
more sail than ballast
motor compensator with PID regulator
My Le
myodynias
noise identification
Obure
Olenus
Ophiopogon sylvicola
optimal coupling
output from decision-assisting models
pascal function
photo transmission
physical topology
pie crimper
Pilina
piringer-kuchinka(syndrome)
pitty-patty
pnina
quintuplet elliptic spring
regulating blood method
relegate to
rest position
rhizopus arrhizus
rhodotorula rubra
rousseaux
sarcocystiss
seagoing freighter
second viscosity coefficient
sending current
setscrews
shaft skid
shrinkage retarding treatment
side-trip
silicon photodetector
space writers
spot (satellite positionting and tracking)
streptobaeillus moniliforrais
subliminal
summer theater
transformer bridges
tuft row
undrooping
unqualified approval
viverriculas
wardrobe crate
white-chinned petrels
wildauer
zanily
Zikhron Ya'aqov