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.The holiday shopping rush is on, for retailers 1 try to attract last-minute Christmas shoppers, salvaging 2 what has been so far a mediocre 3 December. At Macy's price cuts on most merchandise up to 50%.


2.The video plea from the parents of Madeleine McCann, the British girl missing since May from a resort in Portugal. Her parents released video of Madeleine opening gifts from last Christmas.


3.Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has left the Church of England, converted to Catholicism, now sharing the faith of his wife and children. The Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the world's Anglicans, wishes Blair the best in his spiritual journey.


4.Just before Christmas this reindeer 4 herd 5 is grounded, due to recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and Bluetongue virus. The herd is usually in demand for holiday displays but not this year. Authorities want a barrier between the animals and everyone else.



1 retailers
零售商,零售店( retailer的名词复数 )
  • High street retailers reported a marked increase in sales before Christmas. 商业街的零售商报告说圣诞节前销售量显著提高。
  • Retailers have a statutory duty to provide goods suitable for their purpose. 零售商有为他们提供符合要求的货品的法定义务。
2 salvaging
(从火灾、海难等中)抢救(某物)( salvage的现在分词 ); 回收利用(某物)
  • A shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship. 某轮船公司要求赔赏打捞沉船的费用。(make a claim 要求)
  • It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship. 航运公司为打捞沉船的费用而提出要求,这并非奇闻。
3 mediocre
adj.平常的,普通的
  • The student tried hard,but his work is mediocre. 该生学习刻苦,但学业平庸。
  • Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。
4 reindeer
n.驯鹿
  • The herd of reindeer was being trailed by a pack of wolves.那群驯鹿被一只狼群寻踪追赶上来。
  • The life of the Reindeer men was a frontier life.驯鹿时代人的生活是一种边区生活。
5 herd
n.兽群,牧群;vt.使集中,把…赶在一起
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见,只是人云亦云。
学英语单词
affective and conative processes
air intercept missile
aluminothermic weld(ing)
antiminority
applicable standard
aspidosamine
b-nt1(broadband network termination 1)
Baikalian orogeny
basari
base course material
bespitting
bi-erasure
bigaroons
bindaas
blaner
blast line
bobby pin
buffer assignment
capillifolia
cavia porcelluss
checkpoint restart
cougarlike
crow quill pen
cuprargyrite
cyst of salivary gland
czepiel
dation
dilatory pleas
dodecaoxide
dray chain conveyor
Dubai-esque
earth-return system
ecological equivalence
eczema sclerosum
EHD generator
ekstrom
epidote-gneiss
expressly agreed terms of the contract
fattened
FDT
feetfoot
final payment
Fort Bragg fever
frame method
gaseous ammonia
high pressure side
Hilum renale
horny crunb
hydraulic breakwater
Ibe wind
impetiginous
infra-
inner plate
intersite transmission
junction luminescent device
kazooing
khasiensis
lecanactis submorosa
masked dance of bangolo (ivory coast)
matatanilactone
material labor
Mbabane
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
neo-theory of population
neutrons from fission
non alkali glass
normal electrode potential
nototodarus hawaiiensis
numerically controlled shears
pfeffers
plated bar
Pollution of Ship's Noise
post-temporal
Prut
pulsating oxidative pyrolysis
pumping and drainage plan
ratchet winding wheel
regular annual continuous survey
restraint welding
ruddy turnstones
sage honey
scatter proofs
Scorpiothyrsus erythrotrichus
screw tool
semidiagrammatic
share-croppings
Siemens' syndrome
Silver liqueur
spherical union
starter formula
stationary counter
street-ward
super injunction
temperature run
tetrapterum
thiocarbonyls
trailer tape
universal amplifier
vv. thoracic? longitudinales
Wagner's corpuscles
wishbone trysail
woad