时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(三月)


英语课

1. A beaming President Barack Obama signed a historic 938-billion-dollar health care overhaul 1 bill. It guarantees coverage 2 for 32 million uninsured Americans and represents the biggest accomplishment 3 of his presidency 4.


 


2. Attorneys general from 13 states are suing the federal government to stop the massive health care overhaul, claiming it's unconstitutional. The lawsuit 5 was filed in Pensacola, Florida.


 


3. The former Alabama University professor accused of opening fire on her colleagues last month, killing 6 three, made her first court appearance Tuesday. Amy Bishop 7 was denied bond.


 


4. What a mess! Police say someone has dumped hundreds of breads, bagels and buns along a river in Muncie, Indiana. The baked goods were tied to a nearby café. Restaurant managers are investigating.


 



1 overhaul
v./n.大修,仔细检查
  • Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
  • It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知,铁路系统需要大检修。
2 coverage
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
3 accomplishment
n.完成,成就,(pl.)造诣,技能
  • The series of paintings is quite an accomplishment.这一系列的绘画真是了不起的成就。
  • Money will be crucial to the accomplishment of our objectives.要实现我们的目标,钱是至关重要的。
4 presidency
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
5 lawsuit
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
6 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
7 bishop
n.主教,(国际象棋)象
  • He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
  • Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。
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学英语单词
'eighties
acetonyl
adenophyma
adipogenic
alcoholicity
amynology
antecrochets
astragal plane
Athapascans
awiht
B. P.C.
bilateral exchange contract
bioelectrical integrator
browntown
calf-skin
charge-sensitive amplifier
chloroblast
circle of dispersion
conical straight fluted reamer
continuous start/stop operation
cutoff accuracy
data process
dental probe
differential surge-tank
disturbest
downrange site
duty engineer
enhanced broadcasting services
Epipolasina
epoxyoleananolide
Euonymus americanus
faning strip
festival of lanterns
Gbalo
geological model
glandulae atrabiliaris
H-T-H-W
hat cheo
heart murmur
Herxheimer fever
Hicksites
hollow spindle lache
Hooperatings
human resource strategy
ice minus, ice-minus
inthis
invertivore
Kittle overflow tray
makaweli
meagering
mean linear diameter
Messembé
metal working fluid
mysteriarchs
neoagarooligosaccharide
oblege
ocean burial
oculus parietalis
of substance
ognev
Orchard Heights
p'o p'?n
pakalolos
photocoupled
plain flours
Polygala arcuata
portenos
post-oral arm
pressure breathing oxygen regulator
process chemistry for wastewater treatment
public switched network.
puncture(d)wound
Pérez, L.
rest for a while
resultant voltage
rhaphoneis calcaravis
sacculus (pl.sacculi)
satyrisk
Saxifraga yezhiensis
seprase
sheathing
signalling key of pull type
split draft
spring lamb
Stokes,Sir Frederick Wilfrid Scott
take sth. ill
taltrimide
tangential close ray tracing
ten-thousandth
theta series W
throwing of switch under train
transform matrix
tydemania expeditionis
ultraviolet telescope
uncheckt
underwater laser
unrecoverably
Ust'-Barguzin
vastatin
windmill sail
Yankan, Khrebet
zillertalbahn