时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. A federal judge seems reluctant to investigate the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, while the Justice Department is looking into the matter. The Administration wants the court to back off, while others say it may be the only place for an impartial 1 inquiry 2.


2. Barry Bonds is fighting to keep his law team intact. He was in court today as prosecutors 3 questioned whether his attorneys have a potential conflict of interest. The lawyers had earlier represented two potential witnesses in a perjury 4 case that's linked to his alleged 5 steroid use.


3. The Transportation Security Administration is getting very little love from travellers this holiday season. A new Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows that travellers have so many complaints about the airport screening process that they actually rate the IRS higher than the TSA.


4. Any Martians out there may want to be on the lookout 6. Astronomers 7 say an asteroid 8 hurtling through space may be on a collision course with the red planet and could strike late next month.



1 impartial
adj.(in,to)公正的,无偏见的
  • He gave an impartial view of the state of affairs in Ireland.他对爱尔兰的事态发表了公正的看法。
  • Careers officers offer impartial advice to all pupils.就业指导员向所有学生提供公正无私的建议。
2 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
3 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
4 perjury
n.伪证;伪证罪
  • You'll be punished if you procure the witness to commit perjury.如果你诱使证人作伪证,你要受罚的。
  • She appeared in court on a perjury charge.她因被指控做了伪证而出庭受审。
5 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
6 lookout
n.注意,前途,瞭望台
  • You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
  • It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来,公司的前景可就不妙了。
7 astronomers
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪,为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 asteroid
n.小行星;海盘车(动物)
  • Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
  • It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小,但这样的危险还是存在的。
学英语单词
abnormal pulsation of carotid artery
ac flipflop
acceptance requires
accurate die casting
aedes albopictuss
Alleghany plum
antiperistaltic
arveladzes
be in a daze
blue flash
bonjoured
Bridger, James
bulk carrier loss
Caoguo
cAR1
Chlamyphorus truncatus
chlorinous
Choloepus hoffmanni
coaxial power line
cognitive potential
coincidence mass spectrometer
compilation warning message
cotyloid notch
courts of last resort
Cyclopteropsis
deconjugating
delivery at railway station
DF bearing sensitivity
direct product algebra
East Calder
electromechanical appliance
eliptical polarization
epoxy ethane
escape energy
facultative respiration
fapes
filmscript
finite Markov chain
fuzzy theory
guerrilla warfare
hamacratic
heating connect order
heteropyrithiamine
high-field effect
high-revenue
inlet compression ratio
insisteth
interconnection of power stations
J-dramas
Khudair
lewis and clark
ligamentum popliteum obliquum
lumberjacks
lyndons
megasiemens
mistagging
modes
more-experienced
my boy
nanoindenter
NAPAN
never the wiser
Osmerus eperlanus
overleveraging
ozone-depleted
Pachaug Pond
Palestinian Arabic
pallu
paracyesis
partword
pedagogical faculty
perlection
pre-testeds
ram door
reality television
repapse
seat-mile
seating-room
shot-firing cable
side-splittingly
silver graphite brush
slip-top
spotted zone
ST_size-and-quantity_unavailable-and-inaccessible
steak disease
straight run gasoline
straw mushroom
street-wisdom
superionic conductors
tfpr (task force problem report)
tilting angle indicator
undergloom
untrustworthily
upper flammable limit
vanadium phosphide
veinstone
visual object line
will-less
wire machine
Yawng-hwe
Ymir
youth crusades