时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(五)月


英语课

1.US officials say there are new signs North Korea may be planning even more missile launches. Today it fired its sixth short-range missile since Monday and officials say there are signs of more activity.


2.Members of the United Auto 1 Workers union have ratified 2 a package of concessions 3, designed to reduce GM's labor 4 costs. The vote comes before an expected Chapter 11 bankruptcy 5 protection filing by GM on Monday.


3.Phil Specter has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. The 69-year-old music producer was convicted for shooting Clarkson at his home in 2003. Specter plans to appeal.


4.Prince Harry 6 has been taking a tour of the World Trade Center site. It's the first stop on his first official visit to the US. He placed a wreath with a hand-written note at Ground Zero and bowed his head as he stood over the 9/11 Memorial.



1 auto
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
2 ratified
v.批准,签认(合约等)( ratify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The treaty was declared invalid because it had not been ratified. 条约没有得到批准,因此被宣布无效。
  • The treaty was ratified by all the member states. 这个条约得到了所有成员国的批准。
3 concessions
n.(尤指由政府或雇主给予的)特许权( concession的名词复数 );承认;减价;(在某地的)特许经营权
  • The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工,公司将不得不作出一些让步。
  • The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
4 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
5 bankruptcy
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
6 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。
学英语单词
a.s.a.p
academic council
Adenophora tetraphylia Fisch.
admarcs
adopted out
advanced-level examination
agricultural occupational dermatoses
aimed precision
anniverse
anthropomorph
any Tom, Dick, or Harry
atmospheric pump
avaluative
B-magnitude
border gateway
borehole gravimeter
bustard quails
cartridge microfilm
chick embryo allantoic cavity
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act
Coelogyne nitida
Cololó
coloured body
continuous liquid core
convey electron
coronula diadema
crotched
crystalline temperature
deuter-
diminished radix complement
direct current ring
distribution of daylight factor
domain stability
Duralex
dwarf pocket rats
e-phone
ecological divergence
egeus
elidable
EPTA
extenuative, extenuatory
final finish
flaky mica
forensic anthropology
format object
Gasperini's wheat bouillon
golflike
grypt
halogen leak test(ing)
hang on by the eyebrow
herpes vulvaris
hi-lo-circuit
holodedrism
hossin'
husker
Hypericum pedunculatum
isoelliptone
isoflavones
jamadar
Kemidol
la ricamarie
laminar
lautitious
limited-english-speaking
matricon
naylor spiralarm
normalizability
ondansetrons
pantograph optical projection system
partnership of marriage
phalaenoptilus nuttalliis
pig farming
pivot tooth
power transmission network
prison gang
propulsion data display panel
red iron-oxide
resonance excitation
rotor meter
scientific periodical
semi finish
sequential batch system
sharebone
Sneem
Sogndalsfjord
spectroprojector
spirits and water
straight-line diving attack
strewage
succinctus
tandem engines
temporat
terebinths
terone
throat lash
Tiguent
time code lamp driver
time measurement unit (tmu)
trail along
Veronica incana
Warszawskie, Województwo
Weil pairing