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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access railroad
aemilianuss
Ainsliaea elegans
apperception psychology
as maintained
backtracking organization
Biryakovo
block out
brevis
bronze leaf brush
butyl oxide linkage
centri-chromatograph
challance
chivved
clayme
compressor motor
consound
conus miliaris
defense data network (ddn)
detachers
diquinolylurea
egg-hunt
eightinline
etho-
extra buffer
extraction of impacted third molar
feed preparation techniques
florfenicol
free-swimming
glambassador
graecas
harbo(u)ring resentments and making false accusation
he'bert
high-frequency data
IEL
in a fog
incoming multi-access channel
insertional duplica-tion
iobenzamic acid
jonquil
Krasnyy Most
latest arrival date
LD-lanthioine
leptinotarsas
liagmentum lancinatum
lightcurve
limit monitoring
macrophage-tropic
malipoensis
mangoes
marginal desirability
mitcell
molding-plane
moondials
multispeed revolver
noncolored
nuclear homology
offensive trade
one-dimensional network solid
or's
over-the-shoulder bombings
paradoxides
parallel gate
pelvilithotomy
Pierrefitte-sur-Sauldre
praxiologically
premature seeding
project information
Propaminodiphene
propanethial S-oxide
protocolin
pump lever
radar echo augmenter
reshuffler
residual refraction correction
rheumed
ride sb. off
river pear
Sahli's methods
sampled input
shaking moment
simulative type test
solid casting method
solid-state software
speech spectrogram
splanchnolithiasis
spontaneous ignition point
status parameter
stopping property
sustainable cell rate
template list
tetrahydrocorticosterone
transformer utilization factor
transmyometrial
Tribman
triggerable
trislope screen
truncated dodecahedrons
unilateral lesion
VADE (versatile automatic data exchange)
well-composed
xanthoproteic indices