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
8-Ethoxycaffeine
active ester of amino acid
anenteeremia
antiplastering aid
articulationes humeroulnaris
assure sb of
balance-the-budgeteer
baseline management
bearing marker
bispectral
Cairneyhill
centipedal
chinese elms
clother
cueings
dead-melted steel
detonating tube
distribution server
double-ended severance
dreamfully
electrical phenomenon
endodontologists
enzyme biochemistry
ethynylenes
expandable reproduction
family farm
fertilizer recommendations
fish doctors
following up system
Glen checked
green plovers
hand reeling machine
have a dispute with over sth
have no fault to find with
hawk-dove
heidorns
hertzsprung-russel diagram
Hutchinson I.
idle cost
imperfect lubrication
improved variety of seed
in-deep-water
instruments for acupuncture and moxibustion
interflows
intrupcion
invaligity
Jericho
keep-out
Kheirane
lease automatic custody transfer
life chance
Lord Protector
mirlitons
mousetrap apparatus
mulada
multi-speed drum switch
munidopsis hirsutissima
myriadoporous
next in line for
nippold
non-b
nuclear hematology
oil-drenched
order of reflexion
Orlova, Mys
outboard-powered
palmitin
popova
premonstrating
psycho-political
radial-paddle wheel
rakim
rhinoplasty
rownum
sandwich box
schumm
scratch brush wheel
servorecorder
Shatt-al-Arab
soleimani
spectated
submarine denudation
swimmering
tandem coupled propulsion motors
the mythical man-month
thumb lever
tongueless
toshibas
tresnowski
trixenie
universal algebraic family
unmotheaten
unwomaned
variation per hour
verruca telangiectodes
vibration energy level
wanted (desired) fertility
weeze
white rider
wide-seperation channel
wry