时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(四)月


英语课
1. She may still be trailing in the delegate count. But Hillary Clinton's Pennsylvania win has brought more cash to her coffers. Her campaign now says 3. 5 million dollars was donated in the hours after last night's victory. So far, it's her best ever overnight fundraising performance.

2. Federal prosecutors 1 say they are going to make a third attempt to convict six men accused of scheming with al-Qaeda to topple Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices. The decision was announced at the hearing before the same judge who declared the mistrial the second time when jurors couldn't agree on any verdicts.


3. Authorities have charged an eighteen-year-old with elder abuse. That's after he had his senile grandmother wear a black mask and hold a handgun all for a video on thug life. In it, the 85-year-old threatens to shoot all the pigs.


4. This dog did such a good job raising her puppies. She's now mothering a second litter that are clearly not her own. They are nine kittens from three different litters. Workers call the little meows "pittens", a mixture of puppy and kitten.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. coffer: n.


the money that an organization, government etc has available to spend


2. senile: adj.


If old people become senile, they become confused, can no longer remember things, and are unable to look after themselves.


3. meow: n.


if a cat miaows, it makes a crying sound



1 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
学英语单词
acardias
Adephos
advisory funds
aflatoxins M
aluminum plant
Angerboda
Antichristic
aphthovirus
appeal against a charge
appellativeness
aquanaut work
arch contour
astragaluss
batching by weight
Bragg-Gray principle
butt cable
c-series
character specifier
charge storage flip-flop
chargehouse
consistency limit
copy-protections
deaf theater
desire of
double-sideband multiplex equipment
dray-horses
dummy pill
eddr
electric performance
entocythere
erratic variation
eye-brain system
fazzini
fertilizer unit
fifty-second
flash back voltage
FTIR-Ramanbb
fueling-defueling system
gas fuel nozzle
half-days
hand tester
have belief in
heavy dumper
Inspector Poo-sow
iophobia
Klisura
leakage testing socket
lethal dose (LD)
line-of-sight course
linear wave
locomotive repair in works
loppered
man-induced factor
massicotite
Maurer's nomogram
maybelle
mechanical thermal conversion
Monticelli d'Ongina
Mutāli'
Myodin
niobium-stabilized
noncondom
onto something
oological
otono
P.V. diagram
Pan-Asianism
penalty kill
phosphatidate
phrenicoabdominal branches
piston unit area power
positive air pressure control
post-detection integral
purple osier
push-back
pyxine sorediata
ramera
reputational
responsible cabinet
returned cheque
revenues from special assessment
rolling speed control
rotary planing
Ruffini cylinder
saccharine vegetable
San Jaime
scissortailed flycatcher
segur
Semenchenko
shuttle feeler bracket
somesthesis
sports-minded
successour
time multiplexed system
toggle-type tablet machine
trichroic mineral
tubotaiwine
twigil
Vanoise, Messif de la
variable speed generator
Yandina
yard arm group