时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(一)月


英语课

1.Roland Burris is scheduled to meet with Senate Democratic leader Harry 1 Reid today. He was turned away from Capitol Hill yesterday after his appointment by the embattled governor of Illinois to fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat. Senate officials in both parties now predict the political drama will end with Burris being seated.
 
2.The Israeli military says it will briefly 2 halt operations in Gaza for a few hours a day to allow in humanitarian 3 aid and fuel. Israel is coming under increasing criticism since a mortar 4 strike killed 39 Palestinians near a U.N. school.


3.Aviation experts say strong crosswinds were a likely factor in last month's plane accident in Denver. The Continental 5 jet veered 6 off the runway, injuring 38 people. Officials still think mechanical or human error may also have been a factor.


4.Hundreds of Chinese polar bear swimmers took a plunge 7 in an ice pool Tuesday. The two-day contest attracts swimmers from all over the country to the northeast region where it's especially cold this time of year. The event is popular with Chinese retirees for its supposed health benefits.


 



1 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
2 briefly
adv.简单地,简短地
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
3 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
4 mortar
n.灰浆,灰泥;迫击炮;v.把…用灰浆涂接合
  • The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
  • The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。
5 continental
adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的
  • A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
  • The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
6 veered
v.(尤指交通工具)改变方向或路线( veer的过去式和过去分词 );(指谈话内容、人的行为或观点)突然改变;(指风) (在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向)逐渐转向;风向顺时针转
  • The bus veered onto the wrong side of the road. 公共汽车突然驶入了逆行道。
  • The truck veered off the road and crashed into a tree. 卡车突然驶离公路撞上了一棵树。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 plunge
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
学英语单词
a little from column A, a little from column B
abandonment charge
abkar
aerial-spraying
aerosolizing
air mapping aeroplane
alfoxden
ancylus fluviatiliss
audience holding index
autowaves
bimen
blade carrying axle
brooder pneuminia
call sb's bluff
carbon neutrality
charver
clavus hexagona
clean-sheet
closure of horizon
color register
compensatory duty
delline
dictyosome (perroncito 1910)
diurate
dowghter
effective cathode current
effective-power
ehrenbergs
elutriator-centrifugal apparatus
Enantiocladia
energy salinity gradient
enfored marriage
equivalence ratio
escoparone
expected returns
fibre-optics image dissection camera
five-stages
fullsails
galathea genkai
general planning
Geocyclus
germany internet providers
greine
haidinger's brush
Haller's fretum
hepatopathies
hierarchy computer control system
homefields
how do I get to the train station
hypophysiotropic
II Maccabees
interaction absorption
interlap
isomyristin
labor usage variance
lamplet
Legal System of Ship ArrestAustralia
leucylnegamycin
Maghreb Common market
maize gluten meal
medium of change
merillat
mis-specifications
Money draws
more striking
mulder
navigation computer control
noiselets
noncollector
nonlobed
oilless air compressor
orifice control valve
pad-bake method
panchayat forest
paroxysmal stage
photoelectric double-slit interferometer
practically
profycy
protalus rampart
ram's-head
reform of the financial system
respectablizes
Romano di Lombardia
russian monetary units
saivo
Septics
simple theodolite
single crank double action press
soupconnait
spell-checker
sporting clays
Staphylococcus haemorrhagicus
storm splitting
supermethods
switch turn
thermocouple sensing system
too big for his boots
tragicomedy psychology
underdrains
unexplained variance ratio
urgings
wrecking tug