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
1-butenyl
accessory body
acute ethmoidal sinusitis
adiabatic temperature probe
all-round reform and opening up
analog-to-digital recording system
appui
arbitrary access
arrojadite
average repair
balistid
baptism of blood
be ignorant of
bone-china
bridal chamber
calyculata
Cannabis indica
carded yarns
cardiac nerve (or cardiac branch)
cassiuss
cement steel
cetane
cigar butt
concom
congenital aplasia
Congo-floor maggot fly
creosote phenylpropionate
cross arms forward
crowd-control
decelerating ring
demephitizing
dust discharging plate
dyrege
electrostimulating
eutectiform grapbite
Ewighausen
extremal distance
Eyeberry L.
film cooling
gadshill
gertcha
go wallop
group window
half-tone scale
harp
high aperture objective lens
holorachischisis
Hutt.
ill-got
inadaptability
infra-red moisture meter
iron electrical connector
isoproterenols
kalli-
log drag
make a song and dance
Manning roughness factor
manpower pool
merorganization
merwin's flame colorscreen
milreu
Moira
Mānjarābād
net foreign exchange gains
Niagaran
open storage space
Palisade disturbance
paraiso
passing judgment
peership
plastic gauge
pleasurably
post-possessive
pseudofluorescence
ratchet lift
reducing theodolite
remote-controls
right scapuloposterior
sand strake
science students
sea peak
sea-bathing
Sierra Colorada
Sigmagraptus
Sitotroga
stromules
tape-to-tape conversion
tartarus natronatus
technical know-why
tefillah
terephthalyl chloride
Tiodenol
total losses of a transformer
traumatogenic occlusion
user of document
vacuum diffusion welding
value initialization
water jet motor
well-dowered
Zelzate
zone of(rock)flowage
Zorpia