时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(二)月


英语课

1. Hillary Clinton says she is heartsick at a motorcycle officer died in a crash this morning while escorting her motorcade. The Democratic Presidential hopeful plans to visit the fallen officier's family. The officier apparently 1 crashed into a concrete barrier near downtown Dallas.


 


2. A snowstorm is moving across the Northeast and it's worse than predicted. Up to ten inches of snow could fall in New York City. It's causing major airport delays and traffic snarls 2. And schools in Ohio and Connecticut closed.


 


3. A Minnesota woman faces charges in connection with a deadly school bus crash. Police say the driver of a van failed to stop at a stop sign Tuesday and slammed into a bus, killing 3 four students. Officials say the woman doesn't have a valid 4 license 5 and may be in the country illegally.


 


4. Our computer keyboard is about to be a thing of the past? Microsoft's Bill Gates predicts in the coming years computer users will interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards.


 



1 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
2 snarls
n.(动物的)龇牙低吼( snarl的名词复数 );愤怒叫嚷(声);咆哮(声);疼痛叫声v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的第三人称单数 );咆哮着说,厉声地说
  • I don't know why my hair snarls easily. 我不知道我的头发为什么容易缠结。 来自辞典例句
  • She combed the snarls out of her hair. 她把头发的乱结梳理通。 来自辞典例句
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
4 valid
adj.有确实根据的;有效的;正当的,合法的
  • His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
  • Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗?
5 license
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
学英语单词
Agathis dammara
amnioinfusions
animal mechanics
antistar
Apoera
argyrophil cell
arteria pudenda interna
bobsledders
campan
Casselberry's position
castellated-shaft
certificate of delivery and re-delivery
chrysosis of lung
cingulate
circular radiobeacon
common base circuit
crudelity
decal process printing ink
Dissen am Teutoburger Wald
doggy woggies
driven shaft nut
Dunelmensis
ecophilosophy
environmental oceanogrphy
equidistants
fluctuated
FORTRAN control character
foth
Frankenwinheim
group additive utility function
gunning concrete
Gymnaster piccolii
hair disc
half selected core
Hallyeo Marine National Park
hammer control buffer
hand-setters
high birefringence optical fiber
horizontally dump truck
Hujirta
hydraulic nut
illuminated traffic indicator
in ages
inaccuracy of dimensions
indewing
inspect statement
just identified
Kashebere
lieutenant commanders
local user terminals
magnetically biassed transistor
molecular sieve chromatography
moneygrabbers
Montenegrin
movement elicitation
multiple reclosing breaker
negative chemotaxes
neptunia gracilis
non-executives
Obajana
oleinic acid
oxyhalide ion
paraaminosalicylic acid
Parachampionella rankanensis
parallel test
petrofrane
preacherlike
prepensely
pressure per stone
professional associations
reacter
retardation phenomenon
right cell
rotary vacuum filtration
s. caps.
semi closed cycle
semiautomatic working
sessilistemonine
shark ray
shun
Slmàrd, Lac.
spiclomazine
spumescent
stefaniak
subgrade moisture content
sun-bath
swamp-eels
talents
telegraphic
tentonic characteristics
the summit of
thunderbox
tractor-drawn centrifugal spreader
trematodiasis
truck-mounted generator
Tudorized
wager policy
weak butter
Wendlandia pubigera
WiFi mesh
wintrily
wire turn-buckle