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
学英语单词
a pigeon
abelman
accessory debtor
active poison
adjuvantpeptide
aerodynamic pressure center ofreentry vehicle
aesthetican
allowable bond unitstress
antikutin
Barkhausen oscillator
be raised to the bench
bermeo
bies
binocs
butyroid
carbon-date
carmodies
chalcedonyx
chloroform-methanol
Clarion County
coercively
colonyforming unitmegakaryocyte
condena
convolant
cost of delay
demythologizers
devil-men
dihedral (diplane) calibration reflector
distribution free method
eight-laner
enclosed joints
fault avoidance technique
ferri-sicklerite
filling section
financial-deregulation
fire muster list
fleerish
fog-circle
fused bath
general service desk
get into the way of doing
graphiola phoenicis
gunrun
hetmans
hiatus tendineus
homination
iminobiotin
indexable insert tip negative rake grinding machine
inflagrants delicto
intercontinental
K-index
Konyukhovo
kracauer
kuc
light scattering apparatus
m-alternative detection
mcaden
mean lift force
med-school
microsommite
newly caught fish
night-robes
NO OP
non-oleaginous lubricant
nussing
open interval
optimum exposure
performance artist
phalacroma cuneus
piece of the pie
pink elephants
placentocytotoxin
pogonatum hetero-proliferum hor
position guide
pressure-temperature compensated flow control valve
prism spectroscopes
provision for expenses
pure inseparable field
put his mind to
readouttube
revier
ronne
second level address
selective outsourcing
SM1(sulfamerazine)
Solidariada
special environmentalvariance
standby purifier
stock name
survey damage to goods
suzhou industrial park
thoracoepigastric veins
to give the floor to
torsion box girder
traction of pelvis along the longitudinal axis
two-tier wage system
unetymologically
vision loss
wave machine
weting
wide range monitor
wood casting mould