时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(六月)


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1. A jury has convicted the former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich of nearly all the corruption 1 charges against him that includes trying to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old senate seat. The jurors delivered their verdicts after deliberating for nine days.


2. National Guard spokesman says there are definite signs that the Souris River floodwaters are slowly receding 2. He says it’s a waiting game for the water to recede 3 behind the levees in the North Dakota city of Minot. Meantime the focus is shifting to community downstream.


3. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son and his intelligence chief are now wanted men. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the three on charges of crime against humanity.


4. And video game makers 4 and sellers are celebrating. The Supreme 5 Court has overturned California's ban on the sale or rental 6 of violent games to children. Industry groups argued video games should have the same protection as books, movies and music.



1 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
2 receding
v.逐渐远离( recede的现在分词 );向后倾斜;自原处后退或避开别人的注视;尤指问题
  • Desperately he struck out after the receding lights of the yacht. 游艇的灯光渐去渐远,他拼命划水追赶。 来自辞典例句
  • Sounds produced by vehicles receding from us seem lower-pitched than usual. 渐渐远离我们的运载工具发出的声似乎比平常的音调低。 来自辞典例句
3 recede
vi.退(去),渐渐远去;向后倾斜,缩进
  • The colleges would recede in importance.大学的重要性会降低。
  • He saw that the dirty water had begun to recede.他发现那污浊的水开始往下退了。
4 makers
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 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。
6 rental
n.租赁,出租,出租业
  • The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
  • We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。
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学英语单词
accordion-girl
addition compound of cellulose
ambu facepiece
annoyances
argininosuccinate synthetase
belly line
bend-up
Biyskiy Rayon
block handling routine
bun fights
burnnet reading survey test
calc alkaline rocks
capeweed
carbon chloroform extraction
catacholamine
charge d'affaires ad hoc
chlorum
classified income tax
cochlespira pulchella
combined lime
contemporaneous heterotopic facies
contending passions
cornick
crackle test
deconvolves
delivery of container
dichloro-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole
disruptive behavior
dorsal space
ecclesiastical court
eddy heat flux
exudate(s)
eye-serve
fabricants
failure record
fashion designer
feeding liquor
globin zinc insulin
grottings
gulino
haplomycosis
hemsleyanum
honey aroma
houlihans
improved propeller
in government
Kalāteh-ye Mazīnān
larch-miner moth (coleophore laricella)
levak
living-in-the
luminous dust nebula
macrophthalmus banzai
medium-speed ship
menaphthene,menaphthone
meta saleite
metalized high resistance
milda
miliary eruption
multiple drum winch
multivariate analysis of variance (manova)
Möng Tön
nepticulid
night offensive
nip slips
Now Dezh
oches
operating ampere turns
parock
paumes
petulance
phenetetrol
plaints
playback equalizing
postcrash
preconsicous
pronto
qaos
quaff-tide
rejuvenating
reminding
remote procedure calls
retinacula tendinum musculorum flexorum
returns and allowance book
Routemaster
Sejournet process
shiny surface
silvage
space absorption
technical information exchange
texense
ticker shock
tight as a tick
to stand in a white sheet
tomato psyllid
Torvsjö
two-color pyrometer
underreaching protection
vascular systems
wakening
water freezes from the surface downwards
xenogeny