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
Accelrys
accrued right
acoreas
all-purpose machine
Anacreon
angler fish
apolemichthys trimaculatus
April gentleman
attenuvax
boozey
calanthea musaica hort. marantha musica bull
Chiador, Cachoeira do
communion hymn
compel enforcement
cover rock
cracked carbon resistor
cruising distance
cultivating machinery and implement
cuttance
dangaleats
decouplings
elasticities of shear
electric powered hose reel
electrochemical detector
expatiatory
fixed parabolic reflector
flips off
flying spot storage
fossa acetabuli
fundamentals of infrared physics
gate balance
gelugpa
glycerin diacetate
green engineering
Ham, Oued el
hard plastic tube
Heaven forfend
heptacosanoic acid
high latitude
honey poisoning
indoor and outdoor
interrupter mercury spring
kussmaul paralysis
lepton helicity
long - range missile
major sequence field
Malacanthinae
massif
Mavron
nasal passage
northerly limit
oecophoridae
outbreak
P.ae
package drying machine
packing-case
pentafluranol
permanent closed contact
phenyl petroleum sulfonate
photosensitive adhesive
planktonological
plus-variant
principle plane
profanity
prunk
quadriceps femoris
radix ventralis n. spin.
random weighting method
rapid combustion period
rated energy
ratiometric measurement
rayke
rear-pivoting boom
register savearea
removable isolated singularity
richesse
risk probability analysis
road mark paint
Sacramento River
sensationalize
shaved off
simple steady-state vibration
sorting siding
spray-painting
standard wedge
steep-walled valley
t-shaped bandage
table of the osi model
thallotherophyte
three folded twist
toss up the sponge
transport station header
trichloro-ethylene
Tyrannus vociferans
v card stamped
vacuum control valve
waste liquor storage tank
web printing
wevell
wilfully
working sketch
zig-a-zig-ah