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
?-adrenoceptor
abstract complex
antirride
approved officer
assisted respiration
aster taoyuenensis
bulachite
bulow
camera-control
camorta i.
canonical measure
Cape salmon
carettochelys insculpta
Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road
central limit theorem
Cirsium pendulum
clapper
converter trunnionring
creeping material
current bound
dissection wound
division Pteridophyta
dog biscuit
dutyless
eigenscales
electroflotation
Euler function
family spirulidaes
file legal proceeding aginst
fit out
Ford louse
fumaric acid
give someone the creeps
go at large
goym
gynocidal
Hedyotis biflora
hepple
Hesso
hypothalamic-hypophyseal-adrenal
IDA (International Development Association)
impotence, impotency
Jaipuris
kiln mark
Lastovo, Otok
lemus lemus
Lesse River
Liparis bootanensis
lum-sum purchase
macroergate
magnetic disc head
Maksutov catadi optric objective
meets the demand
megajoule
melanconium pandanicola
milkborne disease
miniature screw thread
modern people
musculi extensor digitorum
myesha
night flying beetle
odoricarpan
one way oropharyngeal airway
paging speakers
papuloid purpura
performace test
picrite-basalt
pillar method of working
pounds per linear inch
Pseudococcus
radiant intensity measurement
reduction of porosity
return mechanism
ringlets
roost
rosettes
sazda
searching system
soft sulfur
Sosnovo-Ozerskoye
soullike
spent fuel building crane
st. thomass
stereo channel separation
subatlantic
suckas
sucky-sucky
system scheduler queue
threw away
torsional fatigue strength
toy with something
triennal
Trollius pumilus
Tunol
unbalanced mixer
unshell
walland
well-merited
whaleish
white pages
wise guy
wollersheim