时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(一)月


英语课

1. President Bush is praising a bipartisan economic stimulus 1 package that would give most tax filers refunds 2 of 600 to 1200 dollars, and those with kids may get even more. The rebates 3 which are expected to go out in June will cost about $100 billion.


2. Meantime, Ford 4 Motor Company is offering buy-out and early retirement 5 packages to more than 50,000 hourly U.S. workers. It's an effort by the automaker to cut costs and replace those leaving with lower-paid workers. The automaker earlier reported losses in the fourth quarter.


3. This Marine 6 has been indicted 7 on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a pregnant colleague. But prosecutors 8 say Cpl. Cesar Laurean won't face the death penalty if he is caught in Mexico. It's believed Laurean fled to his native country, which refuses to send anyone back to the U.S. who faces the death penalty.


4. Check out this smash and grab. Thieves stole an ATM by using a pickup 9 truck and chain to yank it free. It was all caught on a Detroit area gas station surveillance camera.



1 stimulus
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
2 refunds
n.归还,偿还额,退款( refund的名词复数 )v.归还,退还( refund的第三人称单数 )
  • Tomorrow he would return them to the store and claim refunds. 明天他要把它们退还给商店并要求退款。 来自辞典例句
  • The new method means that taxpayers get refunds much faster. 这种新办法意味着纳税人可以较快地领到退还款。 来自辞典例句
3 rebates
n.退还款( rebate的名词复数 );回扣;返还(退还的部份货价);折扣
  • The VAT system offers advantages, such as rebates on exports. 增值税有其优点,如对出口商品实行回扣。 来自辞典例句
  • In more recent years rate rebates have been introduced for households. 近年地方税的减免已适用于家庭。 来自辞典例句
4 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
5 retirement
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
6 marine
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
7 indicted
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
8 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。
9 pickup
n.拾起,获得
  • I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。
学英语单词
Acetamidocumarin
actuating brake cylinder
adjacent vortex
adoxographically
agglutinating
algivorous
annalized
assizer
autoregisters
bennion
Bergeroniellus
board machine
bombyliospora tuberculosa (fee)mass.
Boudican
branchiosaurid
cabinetful
call-outs
capillariness
checks-out procedure
chenser
classic blues
cloze comprehension test
coating loss
cold short material
column packing technique
crude oil stabilization
disturbance moment
double L stair
drying up
enelone
eosinophilous
fart tax
fulll and by
groove insert
hard system
have a liquor
higher animals
horizontal view angle
increased safety type electrical apparatus
inre
interleukin-1 receptor
Jaw-Blinking
Jyotis
Kozle
leofric
Leonotis nepetaefolia
lightning pains
Ligurta
loess deposit
log installation
Lua Nova
mahova
main entry words
megalithic astronomy
mesotrocha
minced pork in chili paste
mirabilary
Mueller matrices
nicodemi
off-let
one-point wavemeter
overtonnage
Palaeo-(Paleo-)
palmityl
plat-forms
position selector
positive integral exponent
potassium tetrabromoaurate(iii)
price match
program termination processing
proportionality limit
purple fringeless orchid
recast
rhododendron atrovirens franch
Rodman Cove
Russian salad
screws-on
service profile
shield pump
shih tzy dog
Sidney line
single throw
spinach green
stood witness
straight-side flank splines
strobe disc
sulcaria sulcata
table pizzas
taper slot
transferrer spring
Tyémé
underwater ordnance locator
undiscipline
unromantics
us space program
village and town finance
volume share
weepies
width of rebate
within large water boiler
xylarium
yondmost