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。
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active card
addition tube
analphabetic writing
as-received basis
barotropism
bawne
bidirectional search process
Bose-Einstein integral
bouat
butter-and-eggss
camptosorus rhizophylluss
cardinal costa
Chaim Soutine
closing a file or device
colloresin process
Couto Magalhães, R.
cutting marker
design hourly demand of hot-water
Earl, Lake
electromalux
ethercuffs
Ethiopian Plateau
eubacteriums
European fire salamander
fog-type insulator
free-slip condition
gas blowby
gas solid contact
gauge reading
Gentiana taliensis
groomers
Guarda Mor
guifu dihuang pills
gun cover
houldsworth
humiri
Ill weeds grow apace
inside salesman
Juelsminde
Korea First Finance Limited
Lease rate
linear channel
low vacuum air micrometer
Lubango
MCP-3
megasmash
midlethal dose
mindstyles
moderate virus
moufflon
mughnieh
multipass transmembrane protein
multiplerow
multitrack function
nickel steel wire
office salaries
oil mist separator
oligohalobic waters
operating characteristic curves
operation.critical
Orsk
orthogonal list
oryza officinalis wall. et wait
ottr
paratus
petroleum series
piece of clothing
plasma potential
pouncings
pretoria
proangiogenesis
prosopectasia
pushker
range of input voltage
relationshipless
salt filled exhaust valve
sarcastically
semitrance
side marker lamp
simple push
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single cone
site laboratory
Snotley
solenostome
Sonepat
standing on ceremony
talbot-plateau law
tape group
the diatonic scale
thealgia
thermal theory
throw ... in
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turnable filter
uk domestic
unpenal
unticketed
vagus nerue block
while away something
wiselike
zero-valence