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
-phasia
advanced rural transportation system
ancillary resources
andrologia
arcus frontalis
bacteriomes
battlestars
betula populifolias
Big, large,
Castiglioncello
CC (channel controller)
chinne
Chlormuron-ethyl
chromospheric bubble
close in for the kill
colloidal graphite for fibre glass
conjunctive proposition
Cruikshank
delete capability
disassure
double heterojunction diode
electronic ceramic device
fat vacuole
follicular hydrops
footpad
formals
fourvey
fruitbat
Fua'amotu
geochemical dispersion
glaucarubin
green water deck wetness
grid plate characteristics
inch-meal
inference procedure
intermediate frequency signal
irregular nature of traffic
jumptv
La Virgen, Cerro
Lagarosolen hispidus
landside slope
lead compensation
lignaloe oil
logic control
logrolling legislation
maunching
mearstone
mincing knife
Mitteleschenbach
mole blade
myrons
narrow-leaved white-topped aster
natural theology
Neonalium
neuroautoimmune
new-land
niche differentiation
No power
occupation forces
octothorpe
out of collar
parthenocarpous fruit
Pedicularis pseudocephalantha
pension program
photoepinasty
polar distribution
Portballintrae
property insured
quasi peak
radiation analyzer
reverse conducting thyristor
Rhogogaster dryas
rubidium indium alum
saouma
Saxifraga aristulata
Simchat Torah
simulation centre
sinusoidal trace
skirt
soil erodibility
sour mushroom
stochastic perturbation
submerged coastal plain
taxed product
telectorate
tephrosia
through phrase
thudding
top-hinged swinging door
truth table reducibility
understudies
UnitName
virtual core
virusin
wavelength plate
wild apples
WILKIE
windowless presenter
withdraw an action
workers' management
working dogs
worth his salt