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. The owner of one of two egg farms linked to Salmonella illnesses is not talking, citing the Fifth Amendment 1 at a House hearing on the outbreak. A recall pulled back more than half a billion eggs in August.


 


2. Disagreement was in the Obama administration on Afghanistan, that’s according to the latest book from Bob Woodward. It says the president insisted on an exit strategy, so he would not lose the whole Democratic Party.


 


3. A state audit 2 shows the city of Bell in California mismanaged more than 50 million dollars in bond money. All were giving officials high salaries. Some of those officials are arrested for how they use public dollars.


 


4. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a lamp at this dog park is getting power from what dogs are leaving behind. Waste is turned into methane 3, helping 4 the light burn bright, getting rid of a messy problem.

 



1 amendment
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
2 audit
v.审计;查帐;核对;旁听
  • Each year they audit our accounts and certify them as being true and fair.他们每年对我们进行账务审核,以确保其真实无误。
  • As usual,the yearly audit will take place in December.跟往常一样,年度审计将在十二月份进行。
3 methane
n.甲烷,沼气
  • The blast was caused by pockets of methane gas that ignited.爆炸是由数袋甲烷气体着火引起的。
  • Methane may have extraterrestrial significance.甲烷具有星际意义。
4 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
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advantage
Aircraft to surface vessel.
alarm bolt lift driver
angi(o)-
angular forceps
asymptotic rate of convergence
blanket to blanket web offset press
by-a-whisker
carrier suppression system
cents-off
civilizing
computer planning and control technique
conisboroughs
connection oriented data transfer
Coora
costocolic fold
cuyps
debussies
desknote
determining the identity of the inventor
disburden one's mind
discloaked
double deck classifier
essential qualities for a good manager
etched resistor
exchange cable
explosive laser
facies articularis calcanea anterior
fire-coat
folk-tales
general range of work speeds
gerustmark
giant folds
haemic
Hardwick Hall
haute-lisse
hovering vessel
indigo-white
inone
inrush of water
kickits
kreatinins
legal maximum
Lemesurier
line of stream
lobster pots
local excision of lesion of ear
maianthemum formosanum
matured bill
membrana fibrosa
multifrequency pushbutton
nautical knowledge
nigrosine (aniline black)
nill
norma1ized rate
nosoparasite
Okhvat
organotherapy
OSEM
otic process
overpermissiveness
p-carboxyl benzhydrol
paid work
photographers' eczema
pipe tongs wrench
preconcerts
principal h-plane
pseudotail
put in the shade
quick-grass
Rami septales nasales
rankinite
reaction distillation
recording gear
relationship-oriented
scattering surface
Septoplix
seven holes probe
shrinkproof
suberization
subunion
supertired
tazonolast
Temoptol
the betting is
timely purgation to preserve yin
Tower-of-hanoi function
trajectory measurement
two-point press
unrecognisably
vector parallel processor
weapon maintenance team
Whangaroa
whingding
white soot
windows 9x
wood-anderson
wrongthink
Y-intercept
yassky
yogurt-maker