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
additive motor oil
Agency Clause
air-driven generator
ALGOL
averaging operator
Bedan
beta-ray teletherapy
binary character set
borromeans
breh
built-in classifier
Chaetoseris likiangensis
chemical concentrate
child-based
chrome vanadium steel
classier
clutch at straws
combinat
comprehensive zoology
congenital absence of penis
continuous flow meter
dissymmetries
fastigiate
fastness to caustic boiling
Feira de Santana
fetvas
fire resisting partition
flameless
fog dispersal system
force-feed gun
fruit tree thremmatology
fts (frequency time standard)
gemella
HBAA
heterogeneous chain compound
hooooo
horizontal oscillator circuit
hot water return
how to's
inter partes
Internation Law Comission
intervenient party
legislate
leuzzi
level recording meter
literally speaking
lithium hydroxy-stearate grease
localized corrosion
longinuss
Lost Pleiad
lubriciousness
marginal terms of trade
mingardo
modeler
multiprocessor software system
musizin
natural load
No parking
non destructive read out memory
of ... choice
orussus brunnes
palletization
petrolists
phase tolerance
Phnom
politics-administration dichotomy
quegh
ranunculus albertii regel et schmalh
re-stated
reclog
reseasoned
revenue and expense account
rush of peasants job seekers to the cities
Rutledge, Edward
sequency of operation
set to rights
shared page
skpo
slack hold
spasmatic
spectra in alpha decay
sphenoturbinal bone
statement of calculation
static structure testing machine
stepped to
stray illumination
sulfate attack
sum difference system of stereo
take a scunner at
trailing-edge pulse time
tube galvanometer
underwater object locating
unsummarized
vascular system
vatted
viscosity standard oil
visible sky angle
voltage adapter
wasicek
water bearing strata formation
welled
wi-wi