时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(十二月)


英语课

 1. House Speaker John Boehner says he opposes a Senate-approved bill extending a payroll 1 tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months. He wants congressional bargainers to write a new measure that would last an entire year.


 
 
 
2. Tributes are appearing around Prague today to the dissident playwright 2 who led Czechoslovakia's 1989 Velvet 3 Revolution. Vaclav Havel died today at age 75 in his weekend house in northern Czech Republic.
 
 
 
3. US troops like these national guards have been coming home just in time of Christmas. These families reunited as the last American troops left Iraq early Sunday.
 
 
 
4. And AAA says gas prices will be a Grinch this Christmas. Drivers are paying the highest ever prices for this time of year. The national average is $3.25 a gallon.

1 payroll
n.工资表,在职人员名单,工薪总额
  • His yearly payroll is $1.2 million.他的年薪是120万美元。
  • I can't wait to get my payroll check.我真等不及拿到我的工资单了。
2 playwright
n.剧作家,编写剧本的人
  • Gwyn Thomas was a famous playwright.格温·托马斯是著名的剧作家。
  • The playwright was slaughtered by the press.这位剧作家受到新闻界的无情批判。
3 velvet
n.丝绒,天鹅绒;adj.丝绒制的,柔软的
  • This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
  • The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。
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学英语单词
abbreviated fascia
acoustical coupling
archegoniatae
articulating process maxilla
arturian
aurantium methylis
automatic sending
avoision
backrow
Baltimore, David
Bayansayr
born-to-be-wild
Brillouin shift
cash production
channel-hopper
charter-school
chloro-carbonic acid
chome
churchtown
college-teacher
comprecant
condenser transducer
condition of assets
copper(ii) tetraborate
dead-wood
density currents
dicephalia
direct business
direct recording system
distillation low temperature
disturbance switching
draw orientation
e-bombs
ecotypically
edit back-up command
elementary flight maneuver
episcopies
erythrocytic capillarys
family canidaes
fault pattern
first stud gear
flooding cock
fried mutton chop with vegetable
frontolysis sector
glacier iceberg
graphitosis
high order bit
homoeomorphic
interstitial-free steel
jeffie
Kafin Karya
long distance
MTPR
narrowband amplifier
naumann symbol
node-pair method
Ochten
Octachloronaphthalene
On a Beach
outstrategized
over commutation
overindustrialized
palytoxins
partitive membrane
patripassianism
perivitelline
pipe set back
premycotic eruptions
principal function
principle of dynamic
push-down operation
put sb out
repairing of vacuum leak
ring stiffness
roof caving
sacchariferous agent
Sagaria
santan
second liquid
set link
set me back
setting amplitude
short duration power frequency voltage withstand test
SO2-4cotransporter-1
stictococcids
strobiluss
suncatcher
sundowner syndrome
Syncalathium qinghaiense
talamantes
talent education method
tectonic syntaxis
temoras
the yellows
theater of war
throw down the gage of battle
tip starch
towgher
tractiver
United Self-Defense Force of Colombia
vigilate
wry nose