时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(九月)


英语课

1. A fourth young male member of Bishop 1 Eddie Long's megachurch has come forward. He says the prominent Atlanta-area pastor 2 coerced 3 him into a sexual relationship. An attorney says she is filing a lawsuit 4 on behalf of a member of a church run by Long in Charlotte, North Carolina.


 


2. Authorities in the Miami area say a bank teller 5 and his father were held hostage for several hours in their home. The hostage-takers then used the teller to rob the bank where he worked. They say the robbers strapped 6 an apparent explosive device to the man's chest and sent him into the bank to get the cash. All three bandits escaped.


 


3. Actress Lindsay Lohan is back in jail. She was taken there in handcuffs. And it looks like she'll have to stay there until her next court hearing nearly a month from now. A judge in Beverly Hills today refused to set bail 7 after Lindsay failed a drug test.


 


4. And Stephen Colbert says a day of picking beans and corn alongside illegal immigrants convinced him that farm work is "really, really hard". He stayed in character as a Comedy Central news commentator 8 as he spoke 9 to a House panel about farm labor 10.

 



1 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。
2 pastor
n.牧师,牧人
  • He was the son of a poor pastor.他是一个穷牧师的儿子。
  • We have no pastor at present:the church is run by five deacons.我们目前没有牧师:教会的事是由五位执事管理的。
3 coerced
v.迫使做( coerce的过去式和过去分词 );强迫;(以武力、惩罚、威胁等手段)控制;支配
  • They were coerced into negotiating a settlement. 他们被迫通过谈判解决。
  • He was coerced into making a confession. 他被迫招供。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 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。
5 teller
n.银行出纳员;(选举)计票员
  • The bank started her as a teller.银行起用她当出纳员。
  • The teller tried to remain aloof and calm.出纳员力图保持冷漠和镇静。
6 strapped
adj.用皮带捆住的,用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;缺钱;手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词);用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带
  • Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在婴儿车上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 bail
v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
8 commentator
n.注释者,解说者;实况广播评论员
  • He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛,是个好的解说者。
  • The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。
9 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
10 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
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a fight to the finish
acroamata
amblygonous
Apetemon
atrophia testiculi
backreacted
basal space
basic indicator
biochromatic
black-billed magpie
blood-thinner
bullet wood
callicarpa giraldiana hesse
carried-forward
cocooning
commutation inductance
counter-counter measures
Crispiano
Darnieulles
deep cerebral vein
deukmejians
dipper shovel
distance vector protocol
droop characteristic
dyclosium
dynamic stability of a power system
eastminster
electrophone
family Electrophoridae
fat salting
fendert
force generation
furobufen
Governor Channel
grooved pin
gun barrels
herring-bone gear
hidden lines
high-silicon bronze alloy
honey-combs
hook-worm
hyper-vigilant
immune suppression
interleave channel
iron garnet
isotope derivative method
keku
Langer girder
lappet wire
megascale
micro-dictionary
microrad
migmatite
moving target detector (mtd)
myrmicine
National Health Service
neo-kyotorphin
neutral step weakener
null method of measurement
oil refining catalyst
Osyka
packaged transister
PAFM
pasiniazid
person-job fit (p-j fit)
picoamps
Piquiri, R.
Podol'sk
preconventional morality
quasihelical
rafar
reciprocal mimicry
Rhynchophorus
Rφst
Saint Anselm
scharlow
series self-exciting braking
Seventh Decennial
short-sea coaster
shown forth
sinking seafloor core drill
slow motion starter
solen grandis
solenoid structure
spring joint folding ruler
steam horn
stone-bow
taken her chance
tarry cut
telomer
tetradecanoylphorbol
there-by
transverse vertical plane
ultracrisp
United States International Trade Commission
US Fish and Wildlife Service
vapour-cooled generator
vige
villancico
water development
Yukawa interactions