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
a point of departure
above-sediment
adjacent strip
adjustable insulator fork
anspaches
arrhenotokous
ascomycotan
astrogravimetric levelling
asymmetric waist cross section
atria of lungs
aurhorized capital system
avocados
Balfate
blue control grid
Bolt, Usain
bomb ballistics
boyland
bucket arm
buckling of vessel
built up coil
carvalho de egas
ceramic shell mold
channel extender
chorionic mesoderm
chromis weberi
chronic myelocytic leukemias
circular back
clear goods
comftorble
common clearing
complex materials mechanics
conceivers
copy exactly
date corrector lever
decomponent
doubly refracting crystal
enanthaldehyde oxime
escalops
faceted lens
ferryside
fissile atom
flat-base rectifier
Gairsay
gaol sessions
gomaa
hausse
have the loan of
hydrostatic pressure element
innecessary
Ionesco
Iviron
Kupffer
laminated material
larch turpenting
lecanorchis bihuensis
low pour (point)
luck into sth
main arch
mathematising
meases
metabarcoding
methyl benzylketone
methylselenocysteine
Mitchell Peninsula
mix masque
NHCS
NSP-I
obg
omnivorous fish
on-off shutter
ordinary composition series of subgroups
oviparously
oxabicyclooctane
parabolic-reflector microphone
photon counting method
playerette
polynomial number
priming paint
pull velocity
Rance River
realizest
reallife
relative standard error
retinoic
Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge
savings-investment model
semi-top down construction method
serve no purpose
shearings
silicon phototransistor
single particle approximation
TeV
three tine grapple
threshold pressure
transfer slip
transparent latch
turns against
typhlo-ureterostomy
voluptee
weather echo
xeromorphy
year and method rolled