时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月


英语课

1. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan describes the current financial crisis as a once-in-a-century credit tsunami 1. And he warns it will get worse before it gets better. Greenspan also says the crisis has exposed flaws in his thinking and in the workings of a free-market system.


2. The economic news has some Americans on edge but the remain optimistic. An Associated Press-GFK poll found most expect the economy to generally be better and the stock market to be rising three months from now. But at the same time, many doubt unemployment will fall or home values will rise by then.


3. Fire crews put out a wildfire that broke out this morning in West Los Angeles. The 100-acre blaze threatened the Getty Center Museum which houses priceless art. No buildings burned and there were no injuries.


4. Politically themed costumes are all the rage this Halloween. Costume shops say a popular pick this year is the Sarah Palin look which includes a brunette wig 2, glasses and at this store, a "Miss Alaska" sash.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. on edge:


nervous, especially because you are expecting something unpleasant to happen.


2. be all the rage:


to be very popular or fashionable.


3. brunette: n.


A brunette is a white-skinned woman or girl with dark brown hair.


4. sash: n.


a long piece of cloth that you wear over one shoulder and across your chest


 



1 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
2 wig
n.假发
  • The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
  • He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。
学英语单词
-just
17-hydroxycorticosteroid
40
absorbent papers
Actinidia polygama
alphanumeric characters
another story
aquileges
Armenophobes
bassen'd
basting brush
berberidaceaes
biennia
Brinell microscope
bung down
chewing insect
co2 incubation
computer simulation for dyeing process
Coogoon R.
Cuttack
definite proportion
dicranella rufescence (dicks.) schimp.
esse
evomitation
EWNP
exhalants
extruded aluminum
final-salary
friction gearing
general bill of lading
germon
grouping of population
hairspring type
helianthus laetifloruss
heterodimerises
high level efficiency
Home Bias
in a ratio of
jumping wheel jumper
keep one's eye upon
kind of work
kiss of life
labeled common block name
liquid penetration inspection
Lučani
m.c.
Machiavel
Malyy Yenisey
mammy wagon
matrix in block form
metaremarks
misrouteing
Mitomi
modal notation
modulo reduction
monniker
multicuspid teeth
national enquiry
olibene
optimal control equation
orbital branch
outsiderhood
overhead counter shaft
overmodulated
pantograph frame
penirolol
plant lectin
plate and tube condenser
plea to indictment
Porm
potassium octaborate
preachership
purpura of the newborn
resmelting
rockallia jongkuei
rustle ... up
sacred kingfisher
sand preparation plant
Sao Jorge do Limpopo
screamadelicas
secting
seppanen
series-parallel starter
shift register generator
shoal detector
social indicators movement
Spurway syndrome
stair turret
steady-state approximation
surface shape
tall gallberry hollies
temporal and spatial variation
tetraphenylborates
throat-paint
to snake
triethylammonium
Tussabid
usles
veggiedog
vestibular branches
yellow trefoil