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
a coelo usque ad centrum
accuracy of azimuth aiming
agreed returns
angular wavelength
antichemical security
anucleate cell
archaeological timescale
avoiding immediate danger
back yards
Bacti-Cinerator
bastard ashlar
Batavia powder
Bordusani
bouce Jane
Caudaevirus
Chinese patent medicine
congredient
creatinine coefficient
cuminaidehyde
curvilinear correlations
daylight-signalling mirror
definite inflorescence
deliciating
distortion corrector
electrode reverse current
electrodiagnostics
equivalence of types
evaporative crystallizer
exhibitiongoer
field deployable communications
four wire arm
fuel-injection engine
full-load
gas tar
half hour rating
have the world at one's feet
homocinchonicine
homopolar tachogenerator
horizontal deflection
howliglasse
iso-corrosion line
Kartveli
kefir fungi
large-type edition
ledoides
light kaolin
lump-sum method
meat-packing
media maven
meteoristic
metioxate
military security
mirror nuclide
molire
monoatural track recorder
nonliquefying
nothing less than something
nourishing blood for tranquillization
nprm
obtention
original ion pair
perfect prediction
phlebotoxic
pieces of ass
plain die
polypectomies
porticciolo
postjudice
prophecizes
purple thorn-apple
quelm
recide
red-crowned
relative address coding (rac)
reserve for bad debt
Ross lens system
rouleina watasei
safety pin
sand lens
sectioning covention
Shaverki
shower with
sippest
snatching
steam slewing crane
sucrose esters
tar pit
teletype terminal
Theiler
traveling heater solvent method
tricalcic
tryptophanyl
unhandsomely
uranian satellites
vacuum sealtight
venensity
vetala
wave-piercing catamaran
wealth distribution
where have you been?
wideband image
worm wheel shaving cutter