时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课
 

1. There is a possible settlement for families of those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings. The state is proposing they receive 100,000 dollars apiece in exchange for not suing the school or the state. Medical and counseling expenses will be covered for relatives of the 32 killed and dozens of survivors 1.


 


2.Hillary Clinton says she misspoke when saying she landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia as first lady. She says the mistake was just a minor 2 blip. The Barack Obama campaign says the statement is a deliberate exaggeration by Clinton.


 


3. Stowaway 3 baby rattlesnake bit a Virginia high school rowing coach as he was emptying a bag after a trip to South Carolina. The coach is recovering from the bite on his hand.



1 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
2 minor
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
3 stowaway
n.(藏于轮船,飞机中的)偷乘者
  • The stowaway masqueraded as a crew member.偷渡者假扮成乘务员。
  • The crew discovered the stowaway about two days into their voyage.船员在开船约两天后发现了那名偷乘者。
学英语单词
acetamino-toluene
aerospace medicine
African blackwood
anomalous dispersion phase-matching
aquaticine
automatic bagger
average age of receivable
ballistic vest
basilar sclerite
bauds
Bauria
berthing room
bilge water separator
break-break contact
bursae iliaca subtendinea
calfs
callison
carrier-ring orifice plate
cause and effect system diagram
charnwood forest
chequered plate
cohibiting
colo(u)r coefficient
core of bank
could'st
critical moisture
crystal active material
diathermanous body
dioxopiperidine
direct liaison authorized
drift gauge
eight-games
endodermoid
enzyme catalyst
evaporation at constant temperature
fabronia ciliaris
fancy stripper
fatigue test
femineus
Focuri
formal effectiveness
goods-train line
great basin tent caterpillar
greater china
heat couple coefficient
Hefner kerze
Hessian matrix
horizontal profiling
horseshoe type mixer
hydride defect
in the weather
Jimalalud
joint and several obligation
kao liang chiew
Khorgos
kwaito
lanugoes
laughing jackass
long path infrared system
low-volatility
magnesium borocitrate
metal tie rod
neuro-surgeon
newtones
NPSH
oregon caves
overdusting
PDOs
peg-tooth harrow
plateros psuedochinensis
Porter Landing
pulfords
punx
quitting ship
rainworm
recrystallized tungsten wire
required military force
reseeking
RF radiation power
rheumatoid pleural effusion
sand strake
self attachment
Shawville
shintenensis
sketch ... out
Steffisburg
Stewartia sinensis
sulpamineplus
Surat Thani (Ban Don)
tachogram
target architecture
thought experiment
timoes
toe-poke
toutou
Tunas, R.
uk times
unpersonified
vertex angle
way-finding
Wolff Parkinson-White syndrome
yanqui