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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A display
Abakan River
Abbay
air pumped storage electric machine
analyze
atria of lungs
Benjamin Jowett
big opening easy open lid production line
Bragg-Williams approximation
build operation
business-to-employee
cantly
capability factor
cardigan jacket
certification pilot
charactered material reserve
check girl
chorioid tela
classical orthogonal signal
coboundary
conesthesia
consumption-income sequence
crisis management plan
cyclopic anophthalmia
Dawkinite
delivery bridle
dimethylirigenin
disease-free seed
distribution mix
document processing
electron transport phosphorylation
equilibrium at rest
farder
fastness to laundering
ferric red oxide
finger-to-finger test
flame on
fluridone
frequency shift receiver
genus riparias
grandparenthood
half-pricest
haul forward
ibou
layered vessel
lighting generator
longitudinal covering
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron
magnesia chrome
mamar
mastigopus
meditatios
modist
mokoro
mold unloading
non-computational
not care a fuck
optometer
Orthidina
pasvik
plunger type control valve
poikilocythemia
position telemeter
programatic
programmer-defined symbol
projectionless
public liability
pulsescope
radio-collared
Ram's horn figure
reentry funnel
registrarship
regreded
reversed rolling moment
road rash
saiodine
save one's pocket
seedbed frame
SELinux
shipping kilometre
skirt response
small intestinal stasis syndrome
squadder
stillwater performance
sucking-pad
superscreen
supervisory activity
tc-99m
terbium peroxide
theriacal
three roll type coiler
three-unit code
thymasin
Toleration, Edict of
tracheo-esophagology
Unrealized Loss
unreken
violon
wait-time
What Not to Wear
X-ray technic-film
yoohoos