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
accultures
Amur River
antwren
arquebuses
babels
battledoors
behaviour monitor
beifang
bell apples
blackface letter
blue spot
bow-breast
bracket crab
cathcarts
clomoxir
commitment charges
commusalism
container owner code
corallums
corn-baby
cornea canaliculi
cowardices
damnification
degeneration four-wave mixing
devolved
diachylum
dihydroetgotamine
disci-
dma transfer
dump-test
fall streaks
family droseraceaes
File Transfer Protocol
find one's sea sealegs
foliar bud
foreby
formylated
fourth cranial nerves
gate ring
gold premium policy
gone dark
Gorbitsa
group drift
gun position determination radar
hand lettering
harmonic interference
harmonic tidal analysis
home games
horizon angle
incarnato
initial sum
jenolites
jigglings
juillard
krons
leptophylla
logic device number
macroslope
massic thermodynamic energy
micromyzus katoi
midine
mine tax
modernus
multiple capture of neutrons
munros
Nakhon Pathom
net irrigation quota
nondiscriminatory government procurement
outpatient surgery
parent elements
pectize,pectise
private-
propantheline
que pasa
Qāfilah
radiation patterns
raina
recombinant-dnas
reducing instalment method (of depreciation)
reduction of soundings
reflexive convulsion
sad dog
Sant'Antonio di Santadi
Silliver
single wafer
soil-conserving crop
sound a note of warning
sundown
swelling of nucleus
tap-change in progress indicator
tarpaper
teropterin
testilyin'
time-leaps
total failure
town water supply
Tyndalloscope
unidirection push-button switch
utility tax
water-to-air missile
wheel spacer
wind-heat of liver channel