时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(四)月


英语课

1. The World Health Organization declares the swine flu outbreak in North America as a "public health emergency", meaning countries around the world will step up reporting and surveillance of the disease already killing 1 dozens in Mexico.


2. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes a surprise visit to Iraq, her first since becoming America's top diplomat 2. She said the US will not abandon Iraq even as it presses ahead to remove combat troops.


3. No suspense 3 in the NFL draft on who will be the top pick. That honor goes to former Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford, heading for the Detroit Lions who went 0-16 last season. The deal has a maximum value of 78 million dollars.


4. Bea Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress who delivered comedy lines with a razor sharpness has died. She became a TV star from the hit shows "Maude" and "The Golden Girls". Arthur had cancer. She was 86.



1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 diplomat
n.外交官,外交家;能交际的人,圆滑的人
  • The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话,紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
  • He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。
3 suspense
n.(对可能发生的事)紧张感,担心,挂虑
  • The suspense was unbearable.这样提心吊胆的状况实在叫人受不了。
  • The director used ingenious devices to keep the audience in suspense.导演用巧妙手法引起观众的悬念。
学英语单词
alper
amount of hog
appreciably
autoscopic hallucination
baled cargo
bandage winder
banded coal
bltn.
bracket bracing
brittle materials tensile-strength tester
Calydonian hunt
Camellia State
cinemaphotography
closing direction
constant percentage growth
coolings-off
day correction
Decoction of Seven Valuable Drugs for Malaria
desert crossing
desmoulins
dibenzofurans
east kildonan
ferdinand von zeppelin
fieldname
fixed coil indicator
flywire
fortazs
frontstern tube
function preventing fault
furtherance of offence
gas generator mixture ratio
geezerhood
geocentric horizon
glassmakings
gross production efficiency
gymnothorax pseudothyrsoideus
haplogroups
homeozoic
horrified
horvats
it's not you, it's me
Jominy test
keyway gage
lactacystin
last-minute
lelawi
Ligamentum vocale
lines of descent
love-handled
loxygen
MAC (message authentication code)
made an exhibition of yourself
mechanical ground
metatrochus
monthly agrometeorological bulletin
new things
Notoscyphus
obtain a footing
official petitioner
oscillating mechanism
palpation of neck
patience is a plaster for all sores
perri
petal-like
polybrominated
pop off the hooks
Pottsia laxiflora
preavailing rate
preteritary volcanic rocks
propeller-water turbine
pullis
quintoms
replenishers
rotary drive shaft
run under
runway visibility
salpingo-ovariectomy
scintiphotograp
scrubbird
sequence utterance
set our cat at
shallow hoisting
signal azimuth display
significatively
skeletonises
sliding shutter
spipot and socket cast iron pipe
spray mixer
stochastic term
stress reduction factor
tertre
the ratio of obstruction
tokening
Tuberculum ossis scaphoidei
tying-in
Ulpian
untalalog
vaskene
vena pharyngeuss
venus foveolata
work ... off
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