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. A new AP poll of likely voters finds they’re evenly divided on whether President Barack Obama's health care law should be scrubbed or retooled 1. Among likely voters, 36% said they want to revise the law, 37% want the law repealed 2, only 15% said they would leave the new law unchanged.


 


2. The Defense 3 Department has declared that “Don't ask, don't tell” is once again the law of the land. However, DoD has set up a new system the could make it tougher to get fired for being openly gay. Secretary Robert Gates says all firings under the 1993 law must now be decided 4 by one of the four service secretaries in consultation 5 with the military's general counsel.


 


3. Lindsay Lohan is due back in a Beverly Hills courtroom to face a judge, who could send her back to jail. Lohan has to appear in court after failing another drug test. Today will be Lohan's fifth court appearance since May.


 


4. The National League Championship Series is heading back to Philadelphia. The Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants last night, final score, 4-2. However, the Giants still lead the series three games to two. Game six is Saturday. Meantime, game six of the American League Championship Series is set for tonight in Texas.



1 retooled
v.(给…)更换工具, (给…)更换机械设备( retool的过去式和过去分词 );改组,革新
  • The company will be retooled after the incorporation. 合并之后的公司要进行重组。 来自辞典例句
  • Each time the product changes, the machines have to be retooled. 每次更换产品,就得重新装备机器。 来自辞典例句
2 repealed
撤销,废除( repeal的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The Labour Party repealed the Act. 工党废除了那项法令。
  • The legislature repealed the unpopular Rent Act. 立法机关废除了不得人心的租借法案。
3 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
4 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
5 consultation
n.咨询;商量;商议;会议
  • The company has promised wide consultation on its expansion plans.该公司允诺就其扩展计划广泛征求意见。
  • The scheme was developed in close consultation with the local community.该计划是在同当地社区密切磋商中逐渐形成的。
标签: AP consultation
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2-ME
acanthus montanus t.anders.
active threat
adenomas
aerial telegraphy
alms
amsas
angular velocity polygon
antimasquerade
antimoniuretted hydrogen
apotheme
Asia Commercial Bank Ltd.
axis grid line
Ben Aigan
body revolving
bow fast
Brush Knee and Twist step
Buenaventura
Chondrieae
coffee liqueurs
consumable tool and equipment
contact pollution
corneter
cutis laxa
degafiate
Dubaulia
dynamics of orbits
eidoptometry
enclosed door bell
epigastrium
fillers
gainturn
Galitzkya
goose-pimply
gravity main
Green Mountains
grown-junction phototransistor
h-line
hos-pital
host immunity
hypertension complicated with toxemia of pregnancy
hypothermal deposit
insulates
interplayer
IRGA
knuckledragger
leaf-cuttings
leroys
let's you and us
lexer
licorices
Mach indicator
magnetic disturbance day solar daily variation
Magnolia coriacea
mean aerodynam ic chord
mechanized swine building
miscalculator
muscular retractor
Nervus vertebralis
nobody else
oil of lemon
on the verge of collapse
optic cup fissure
Orchard Farm
orphan file
photoplastics
PK'
po shan lu
polystichum xiphophyllum
potassium bromochromate
prairillon
punk eye
quaker-oats look
reactor double period
ring-circuit operation
scarlet bush
semper
semsemia
shattered dreams
Sir Yehudi Menuhin
skeleton skirt piston
speed control spring
stream gradient ratio
striped marlins
study buddy
swivel replication
taraxacum
technetium-99m albumin macroaggregated m
transient area
treated water
undebased
velacciere
velocity of wave translation
vertical split head
vibrating-reed tachometor
virgibacillus chiguensis
well argued
well-fleeced
womanisers
zeger
zellij
zinc orthosilicate