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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a derf
Aalenian Age
Adakli
Akabli
albic arenosols
American pit bull terrier
angioreticuloendothelioma
ante cibumac
barley pearler
behavio(u)r medicine
boxed off
branly
break the habits
brock process
calor
carbonate rock
Chapayevskoye
Chromine
circuit diagrams
city moat
closure umbilical artery
computer analysis and programmer
coomfort
criminal penalty
crpes
denunciated
direct blow down tunnel
dissymmentrical transducer
documents collection
eggletonite
empty focus
financing market
florek
foot gear control
fower
generalized matrix inverse
glaserfeld
grout-head
haarmann
high water table
installed surface
Japanese allspice
lateral medial patella retinaculum
leaf shapes
leech rope
leisureworlds
level totalizer
loose one's hold of
Lophospira
matteddleite
mean life to failure
mechanical placebo
meter-candle-second
metricizes
motive power unit
needle force
nitrous bacterium
non-elastic analysis
nonhibernating
numerical signal
oil leakage
orthogonal wavelet transformation
Ovysmen
oxidbillity
paleoichthyologists
palmate
papadum
parmenter
preetching
pull the devil by the tail
pyelotomy
reduction of erection time
retardation plate,retardation sheet
rosae rugosae flos
Ruaka
salicylate hydroxylase
sasanids
Schenck's disease
self-contained vertical drilling machine
Sharon Springs
ship dock
silver levulinate
speelman
spyplanes
super orgasm
supermicron
surface photoelectric effect
suspension lubrication tank
taryance
Telgte
terping
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
thn
three-jaw draw-in type chuck
till i find you
traylike
tymir
tympanectomy
valuation point
venkateswara
wasshe
white led