时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(一月)


英语课

1. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao are promising 1 closer cooperation on issues ranging from trade to the fight against terrorism. But at a joint 2 White House news conference Wednesday, the two did not narrow their division on human rights issues.


 


2. An abortion 3 doctor in Philadelphia is being charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies. Prosecutors 4 say the babies were born alive, and then killed with scissors.


 


3. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has confirmed he will retire next year. The decision ends a career in which Lieberman became his party's vice 5 presidential nominee 6 but six years later ran as an independent after losing the Democratic primary.


 


4. The hunt by Tiger Woods for a tournament title will resume next week in San Diego. That'll be his first tournament of 2011. He hasn't won on tour since back in 2009, just before his sex scandal erupted.



1 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
2 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
3 abortion
n.流产,堕胎
  • She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
  • A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
4 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。
5 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
6 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
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a-lp
aggressive behaviour
air guide sleeve
alferd
annular pressure
article of faith
avenued
BDHT (blow-down heat transfer)
be in need of
bitplane
breakout character
can't get it up for
canard plane
cane joint
cargo cult programming
cementing power
ceraunograp
Chapdes
charadriiform
cista acustica
co-transduction
computer console
conelation point
cut tube
D Litt
debit credit bookkeeping method
delphinoidea
description of pattern matching
diaphus coeruleus
differentially-protected circuit breaker
disobedience
dorothy leigh sayerss
double-decked ship
entoria formosana
eric center for science education
event improved date/time
exciter transformer
federica
finger steaks
FMPP
footloose and fancy free
four-bar linkage stacker
Garrick
genus ptyass
gymnotid
Haemorrhagic oedema tous colon
hard-sphere scattering
heat cycling
helical content
helper steam turbine
historical cultural relics and remains
inland freight
invertuate
isthmos
kind
Kirchnerism
L.I.P.
labyrinth fishes
light self-trapping
linkage function
Lizhma
lotus corniculatus var. japonicus regel
manir
moffell
nesiohelix kanoi
nosematosis
other revenue
parasitic fetus
pay regard to
peak-holding controller
penalty run
phenolphthalein yellow
phisical layer
positive frauds
posterior chamber of the eye
power distributing meter
prepare a rod for oneself
pugne
resininpulp
risk of carriage
road work
round-about channel
schizothecal
scouring assistant
sealing clearance
self adjusting stop
shock wave formation
silicate process
stagnophile
starting up of speed
svu
Swan River daisy
TLG
toggle actuator
traffic routes
vasiliev
vessel to windward
vibration ability
water hyacinths
wathier
wheatsheaves
whilome