时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(十月)


英语课

1. President Barack Obama is trumpeting 1 his efforts to help women in the workforce 2. He's turned to rally key Democratic constituencies ahead of the election. Obama says female business owners have particularly benefited from his administration's efforts to free up lending for small businesses.


 


2. Mexican officials spent a second day burning around 148 tons of marijuana. The drugs were seized Monday. The drugs were doused 3 in gasoline and set alight in a large bonfire.


 


3. Newly-released video shows the rescue of a man who in August fell onto Washington DC's metro 4 rail tracks by another who bounded across two tracks. The rescuer even stepped on the flimsy cover of the electrified 5 and very dangerous third rail.


 


4. A reporter for the Vatican newspaper stands by his story that the family in "The Simpsons" TV show is Catholic. The producer of the long-running animated 6 show says the Simpsons are actually Presby-Lutheran.

 



1 trumpeting
大声说出或宣告(trumpet的现在分词形式)
  • She is always trumpeting her son. 她总是吹嘘她儿子。
  • The wind is trumpeting, a bugle calling to charge! 风在掌号。冲锋号! 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
2 workforce
n.劳动大军,劳动力
  • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
  • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
3 doused
v.浇水在…上( douse的过去式和过去分词 );熄灯[火]
  • The car was doused in petrol and set alight. 这辆汽车被浇上汽油点燃了。
  • He doused the lamp,and we made our way back to the house. 他把灯熄掉,我们就回到屋子里去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 metro
n.地铁;adj.大都市的;(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国,主要经营零售)
  • Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗?
  • The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。
5 electrified
v.使电气化( electrify的过去式和过去分词 );使兴奋
  • The railway line was electrified in the 1950s. 这条铁路线在20世纪50年代就实现了电气化。
  • The national railway system has nearly all been electrified. 全国的铁路系统几乎全部实现了电气化。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 animated
adj.生气勃勃的,活跃的,愉快的
  • His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
  • We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
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ACR,A.C.R
Action Data Automation (System)
adenosine
aquatic botany
arteriae articularis interna superior
articular lamella
autumn equinoctial point
avascular necrosis
balloon counterpulsation
big Os
BSDI
bundle wire carrier communication
California redwood
capsula externa
Carissa spinarum
chondroseptum
civil procedure act
Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas
Commission for Marine Meteorology
compensating grade
compound extrusion die
continuous drilling machine
cover the deficit
crotaphiticnerve
dark circle
derived data
dietary laws
dreyfusses
eanling
economy reform
eight-plus
facsimilists
ferridravite
fibrous lump
FIFN
functional atrophy
gear graduation
goal life cycle status
Gogebic County
ground segment provider
harley harley
have the disposition of
head office general account
high-water flora
horizontal force
hussman
hydrophobic labeling
hysterotokotomy
isohalines
isoombre
istanbuls
jacklyn
lateral sacral branches
Lates calcarifer
ligamenta cruciatum posterius genu
log onto
loss coefficient
maokonine
mental sternal contracture
mesh screening
meteoric water theory
method of molecular orbitals
Midantan
multiply doubleword
net capital formation
newsmagazine
normal concentration
nosh-up
organized molecular assembly
overpry
Pacific Basin Economic Council
paracusic
periodic control
plot
porcelain margin
port addressing
probability of scattering
public telephones
rannou
remedial gymnastics
renatured
seed rearing
shear force diagram
shoot a line
sphericalnesses
steam-cooked
steel hanger
step-function generator
subhaloes
suture needle
tip-tilted
top cradle
toprope
trimethylpyridine
turbine steam condition
tusi
ulatrophia
unperformed
urethral folds.
vendise
veselka
warbling carrier system