时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月


英语课

1. Scott McClellan, former press secretary for President Bush, says he got caught up in what he calls "the Washington game" instead of changing things like the president promised. McClellan has written a tell-all memoir 1 that's critical of Bush.


2. A medical helicopter crashes on the roof of a hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, catching 2 fire. Two people on board escaped with minor 3 injuries. No patients were on board. An eyewitness 4 says pieces were flying in the air after the crash.


3. A letter from Barack Obama's senate doctor says the presidential candidate is in excellent health, writing that the 46-year-old Obama is a regular jogger with no excess body fat.


4. Help is on the way for the crew aboard the International Space Station where the only toilet is having some trouble. Replacement 5 parts are coming, on board the space shuttle Discovery, set to blast off Saturday.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. tell-all: adj.


Revealing intimate or scandalous details


2. memoir: n.


a book by someone important and famous in which they write about their life and experiences



1 memoir
n.[pl.]回忆录,自传;记事录
  • He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。
  • In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中,她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。
2 catching
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
3 minor
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
4 eyewitness
n.目击者,见证人
  • The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.警察询问了谋杀案的几位目击者。
  • He was the only eyewitness of the robbery.他是那起抢劫案的唯一目击者。
5 replacement
n.取代,替换,交换;替代品,代用品
  • We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
  • They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。
学英语单词
a fair lay
air cushions
air-jet loom
asbestos crude
atoll
audio bridge
Auranti cortex siccatus
bank deposit reconciliation statement
binoquercetin
bioelimination
black marlins
blooming of lenses
book name
By NAME option
carthaginian apple
circle group
citizen extraordinaire
Clematoclethra argentifolia
coorrected dipole coordinates
corner reflector
correlation tracking and triangulation
cun
damage calculation
denucleation
dias
domestic calamity
edin-burg
Egyptianization
emergency cooling loop
eucyclotoma nobilis
external thread gauge
family Fagaceae
fascia superficialis
Follewer
for the thousand and first time
Frederick Ashton
gaspipe plier
gerbig
glazed offset paper
have a way of doing sth
hierarchy of operation
hinged tool holder
holophytic nutrition
hypertonic bladder
inner work
insand
Ipala
irma board
junior hight school
kexey taint
kitty-corner
lambdan
leimocole
Lu-1631
marraine
microup
mideasts
milligray
molybdyl dibromide
myasthenic facies
nail-bitting
national economic evaluation
nitrogen lamp
nonrhizomatous
note-pad
of Reil ribbon
overdetermined equations
oxytocic
Pellionia acutidentata
polar path
proponer
psychologic tests
pummelos
pyridoxal phosphate
quasi-linear model
red out
reshow
saccharolytic enzyme
sand-wich pair
sehcats
self-stick notes
serum mucoprotein determination
setsayne
soniferous
spiral optical micrometer
stauffenberg
strip sb of
stuart factor
supporting graphit sleeve
table lookup technique
throng
time constant of synchronous machine
trolling line
two cell discrete-time Markovian motion
unchurched
undock
victor airway
volksstaat
voltamograph
why not?
work curve
yeow