时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(八)月


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1.John McCain says Sarah Palin is exactly what he and the country need. He tapped her today to be his running mate.Palin is the governor of Alaska, and while she's been on the job for only a short while, she is known to be someone of a maverick 1.


2.The Democratic presidential ticket is taking its bid for the White House on the road.Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden are kicking off a bus tour that will take them on a tour of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.


3.New Orleans marked the third anniversary of Katrina by keeping a wary 2 eye on another potentially dangerous storm. Gustav is expected to move over open waters today where forecasters say it could gain strength as it makes its way toward the Gulf 3 Coast.


4.The King of Pop is celebrating a milestone 4. Michael Jackson turns fifty today. He says he plans on marking the occasion by having some cake with his children and watching some cartoons with them.


WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online


1.maverick n.[countable]
If you describe someone as a maverick, you mean that they are unconventional and independent, and do not think or behave in the same way as other people.


2.ticket n.[countable]
A ticket is the list of candidates who are representing a particular political party or group in an election.
He plans to remain on the Republican ticket for the November election.


3.kick off  [phrasal verb]
If an event, game, series, or discussion kicks off, or is kicked off, it begins.
The shows kick off on October 24th...
The Mayor kicked off the party...
We kicked off with a slap-up dinner.


 



1 maverick
adj.特立独行的;不遵守传统的;n.持异议者,自行其是者
  • He's a maverick.He has his own way of thinking about things.他是个特异独行的人。对事情有自己的看法。
  • You're a maverick and you'll try anything.你是个爱自行其是的人,样样事情都要尝试一下。
2 wary
adj.谨慎的,机警的,小心的
  • He is wary of telling secrets to others.他谨防向他人泄露秘密。
  • Paula frowned,suddenly wary.宝拉皱了皱眉头,突然警惕起来。
3 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
4 milestone
n.里程碑;划时代的事件
  • The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
  • I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
学英语单词
Abū 'Ajāj, Jab.
adjustable orifice scrubber
air compressor plant
allyl resin
Andr.
antigen unit
API - application program interface
arraca
aspherical surface
augite
auto-ventilation
Bacillus coli similis
Batkes
bone absorption
Cabras
carbodiphenylimide
cassava spun silk
Churgaon
CLR
colonial experience
combination restrictive and by pass flow regulator
computer aided production planning
contrast agents
control signal synthesis
conveyance canal
cotton-woolly
coxotrochanteral joint
crapton
data conferencing repeater
Deryugina, Zaliv
destruction operation
disconnector-fuse
disturbed quantity
electric network analysis
end to end flow control
Eucalyptus rudis
explosion type core blower
filderman
flower of silktree
gardella
helepolises
high-temperature cleaning machine
human contamination
hydrogen-oil differential pressure valve
hypoxically
immovable pleasure boat
International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
inwoods
iron dust core
irregularly-distributed load
Ispranil
Korea Str.
laser eye surgery
leadlights
linguistic turn of philosophicus
Lorentz gage
losest
luminance gain
lyxopyranose
magnetic south
mechanical computing system
medullary cords
mingmu shangqing pills
Molotov cocktail
natural coating
negative-positive-negative transistor
nonleaf
nonstriated muscle
Nordic countries
oversways
paguristes palythophilus
prickly-pear
project scope
pullet year
pythium arrhenomanes drechsler
radiation pericarditis
radiocapitellar
RHEL
right - to - work law
Sannou
senior first engineer
Seseli sandbergiae
shared-cache
shealed
simple lobule
snakeberries
Souliea vaginata
sportaholic
steel grade and type
stressor
the balance of payments
tipping unit
tropeines
turpans
type of an universal algebra
urea for injection
water lubrication
waveshapingtechnique
whitehead process
wine vinegar
y?jo kabuki (japan)
yerkeys