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


英语课

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
aba al afan
Albertinia
ansamitocin
articulating process maxilla
aul wans
barrel-bag
bentonite (clay)
biocides
bombogenesis
buna-N packing
bursting pressure of tank shell
chess-man
co-trustee
coexistence of transmitters
collip's hormone
compensational
conjugate field
constant density contour
Corydalis multisecta
crena cordis
cultivator shovel
Custer Res.
cyaniding furnace
cycas circinaliss
cylindrical parabolic reflector
donetskaya seymitsa
Dunlop Pirelli Union
electrochemistry of semiconductor
elfred
empty running
Engine half astern!
Epipactis thunbergii
external quicksort
Gentiana dendrologi
Gentochin
get the heels of
hasbarats
heat resistant rubber
heliotridane
hexanoyl chloride
high level thunderstorm
homospores
honourable discharge
inferior vesical artery
infinite mass
INOCELLIIDAE
jet-prop
jigger-mast
Jodiłownik
Judeophile
loading charge
look as if one stepped out one is fresh from a bandbox
luciite
manganberzelite
mating lift
matrilines
medullary trigeminal tractotomy
metal molding
metamours
mucoepidermoid
multipartial
n. zygomaticofacialis
necrophiliac
nonradioactive probe
octopuslike
optimum allocation problem
outs-of-london
pearly nodule
photoallergenic
phragmoceracone
plain cast iron
polypyrene
Poumer
power-fail detect module
prison-leaving team
pseudointraligamentary pregnancy
pyrizidin
radiohydrochemical index
reinforced-concrete sleeper
restokes
Richard Morris Hunt
S twist
saor
sekisanolin
Sendust sheet
skiagraphs
small lymphocyte
stenocephalus
storm lane
swindle of
take an overdose
ternary fuel
three voltmeter method
tuborectal
two-men saw
Tzolkin
ultra filtration
unique feature
varices and hyperemia of the bulbar conjunctiva
West Ridinger
woodpusher
year of the hare