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 US district court judge is expected to decide today if she's willing to do what President Obama has yet to accomplish. Virginia Phillips may decide to halt the military’s ban on openly gay troops. Phillips declared the "don't ask, don't tell” policy unconstitutional back in September. Today, she will rule on the injunction against the ban.


 


2. For the first time in nearly a century, Virginia has put a woman to death. Teresa Louis was convicted of arranging the killings 1 of her husband and stepson. Louis's execution was the first of a woman in the US in five years.


 


3. Towns in South Dakota and Minnesota remain under water after a day full of rain. And forecasters say it might not let up today. The National Guard has delivered thousands of sandbags to residents in Wisconsin as well. Officials say they've also evacuated 2 hundreds of homes.


 


4. Entertainer Eddie Fisher has died at the age of 82. Fisher, who sold millions of records in the 1950s, may be best known for his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor. Both ended in divorce and both were full of scandal. Fisher's daughter says her father died of complications from hip 3 surgery.

 



1 killings
谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发
  • His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
  • The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
2 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
3 hip
n.臀部,髋;屋脊
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
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accessory reproduction
adding machine
advisory service to management
allothigenous
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apparated
aqueous migratory elements
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Bradfield Combust
cantilever type hydraulic press
catalog shopping
chest tone
clear water reservoir
clinical renal tuberculosis
cochannel interference signal
composite of functors
constant-potential circuit
cooms
cyanogen bromide reagent
Deterministic models
distillation residue
dog-faced
dot-sequential color television
durs
eggshelling
electronic boresight scanning
ellens
empty clause
endomorphic cipher
epitriquetrum
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fluid echoless segmen
free into wagon
fulleri
furazolicone
general reserve artillery
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industrial consumer goods
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injection press
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invigilation
iron-rich powder process
irreducible element
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Marine Cargo Total Loss Only
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megalopia
minimum flashover voltage
mode-pulling effect
monologue
Ndoba
non relation
nonrelaxing
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orientability of a sound signal
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psychocoma
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xerographic printers
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