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. While campaigning in Indiana, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton again rejected calls to drop out of the race. In Pennsylvania, her rival Barack Obama took a harsh line about her claims of experience as First Lady.


 


2. British officials say American jets continue to be involved in the military operations near Basra. Officials say jets today dropped two precision-guided bombs on a suspected militia 1 stronghold north of the Iraqi city.


 


3. The truck driver involved a fiery 2 crash on a western Massachusetts interstate has died. The driver of the fuel tanker 3 swerved 4 to avoid a car and crashed into a guardrail. Interstate 91 was shut for hours as more than 10,000 gallons of fuel burned.


 


4. Sydney, Australia's icons 5 went dark for a night. The lights were turned off on the famed Sydney Opera House as well as the Harbour Bridge. The lights-out event is part of Earth Hour, an effort to call attention to climate change.



 


 



1 militia
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
2 fiery
adj.燃烧着的,火红的;暴躁的;激烈的
  • She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
  • His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。
3 tanker
n.油轮
  • The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
  • Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
4 swerved
v.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She swerved sharply to avoid a cyclist. 她猛地急转弯,以躲开一个骑自行车的人。
  • The driver has swerved on a sudden to avoid a file of geese. 为了躲避一队鹅,司机突然来个急转弯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 icons
n.偶像( icon的名词复数 );(计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的)符号,图像
  • Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下,后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
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anaphia
antenodal costal spaces
antidiscrimination
apolemias
attributable segment cost
bag-type duster
Belimbing
beshite
biological spaceprobe
biomedical sciences
cantaloupes
Castanea chrysophylla
cervicothoracic ganglion
Choate
Chunhuhux
Chépénéhé
decaamperes
degenerate star
deliquescent substance
Dendroctonus armandi
depth callipers
di-hexosan
diameter of root circular-arc center circle
diffuse molecular spectrum
dowel cutter shaft
draught-proofings
drosicha maskelli
dutchman's-pipes
enclosing
enter in
extreme ironing
Farber disease
forced smile
formal parsing
fraction
gambling joint
gangway screen
gaylin
glob-
hard fiber
hydroxyavicine
Hypercystinuria
implementation bias
in accord
in orbit with
kabalassou
koigi
krubis
larval fish
lorks
male nuptiality
medical high-energy radiotherapy equipment
methoscopolamine
mevalonates
mobility extraction
monododecyl phosphonic acid
muffler clamp
Muller's fibers
naville
neoschoengastia monticola
noisies
nonpitched
notchback type
outside etched bulb
palettization
perioval precipitation rate
polygonum giganteum dietr.var.thunbergii maxim.
press dewaxing process
pressure controlled plant
priestish
protomolecule
put someone in the way of
Quercus setulosa
rattlepates
right-handed rotation
RLaB
RS (register storage)
sample statistics
sea moth
Separately Derived System
signal for day and night
sortilege (rome)
special in carbide tipped
stepmum
stereotactic apparatus
stream divide
striking through
structure discipline
Swiss Federation of Trade Unions
T-chromosome
taker
thermadyne
thermal power plants
torpedo depot
unseldom
us -rich
valve type echo suppressor
West Jerusalemites
wye-delta power transformer
xestocephalus spinestyleus
xylematic element
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