时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. A military honor guard begins rehearsals 1 at California's St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. That's where President Gerald Ford 2 will be honored with a prayer service ahead of his state funeral at the US Capitol.

2. After a procession to the streets of Harlem, the body of music legend James Brown arrives at New York's Apollo Theater for a public viewing and private memorial.

3. Two years after an unsuccessful bid for a VP, former North Carolina Senator John Edwards announces his plans to run for president in 2008.

4. And after more than 5 years of testing, the Food and Drug Administration says cloned animals are safe to eat. The study found cloned livestock 3 is virtually indistinguishable from conventional livestock

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. honor guard : N-SING
An honor guard is a group of troops who formally greet or accompany someone special such as a visiting head of state.(AM; In BRIT use guard of honour)

2. episcopal : ADJ
Episcopal means relating to a branch of the Anglican Church (英国国教/美国圣公会) in Scotland and the USA.

3. procession : N-COUNT
A procession is a group of people who are walking, riding, or driving in a line as part of a public event.

4. livestock : N-UNCOUNT-COLL
Animals such as cattle and sheep which are kept on a farm are referred to as livestock.

5. indistinguishable : ADJ
If one thing is indistinguishable from another, the two things are so similar that it is difficult to know which is which.



1 rehearsals
n.练习( rehearsal的名词复数 );排练;复述;重复
  • The earlier protests had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution. 早期的抗议仅仅是大革命开始前的预演。
  • She worked like a demon all through rehearsals. 她每次排演时始终精力过人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
3 livestock
n.家畜,牲畜
  • Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
  • The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。
学英语单词
a professional athlete
aaprotect
activity factor of B (in a liquid or a solid mixture)
al-rasheed
alignment time
anti-perfectionists
aporrectodea trapezoides
assembly robot
band-edge tailing
Barrault, Jean-Louis
be ambitious to do sth
beiderman
biophysics of membrane transport
blowout switch
boning room
caponier
Cetiprin
clinical genetics
cold waste
commercial fertilizer
content ratio analyzer
corticoliberin
crushable structure
customer centricity
DB
desktop videoconferencing
druggister
durable good
encander
essien
Ettrickhall
exner comprehensive system
extra heavy duty
genus omphalotuss
geometric mean inequality
group efficiency
hand brake housing
herposiphonieae
high efficiency TWT
highest probable frequency (hpf)
hold sb in high esteem
holeier
homogentisic acids
hot-tubs
instruction mode
iron-clad
Japanophobic
kizdere
kona cyclone
kragen
L, l
lactomucin
latitudinal cleavage
LC-ME
localcalls
lycocernuine
Maastrichtians
malignant auricular arrhythmia
methylphenylamine
micrometer-microscope
nimbiol
Office Francais de Recherche Sous-Marine
ophthalmoreaction
overconsolidated soil
peg-bar
pingees
pogonia macrocarpum broth
Pyeonghae
Qosqo
quadrant-edge orifice plate
radiosonde station
recommend substitutes
Rhizoma Panacis Japonici
rotating particle
roundhand
Saccharum Granorum
Saint James
schlenker
shoddy shaker
sidewheeler
silicon meter
skeezas
small calorie (cal)
softening plant
SP-54
square can
steering wheel angle
sukhoi
sulphur parakeet
the green-eyed monster
the have-nots
thixomolding
to yearn after...
tobacco looper
ultramacho
ultrasonic laparoscope
under authorities
volume color
wind someone round one's fingers
workfree
working-time
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