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 machine
a mushroom millionaire
Aberdare
akinetism
anchorage system
anodontia praecox
appropriate punishment
attribute class
Bethe lattice
big shoulders
Boguila
bonxie
brazing sheet
buffeterias
cadamine
Camisards
camouflage equipment
cmave
compubank
coprolite
crown drop
damaged ratio evaluating expert system
darkest mark
Didakene
differential phase shifter
dot matrix font
double curvatured shell gate
dump device
effect insurance
erca
failure position
fork change
freight rate of direct carriage
fresh out of something
geared-turbine drive
gelantines
genepre
get off scot-free
grumphy
high-vacuum
hortonville
huqa
jet-blacks
kainen
krumer
magdala
maids-of-all-work
male end of a pipe
master-at-arms
micro-granular calcareous algae
mixer-phase lock frequency synthesizer
nanozoopkankton
nemophora decisella
Neottopteris
notice of action
Oberfellendorf
official reserve
operating system master
overscolling
parodical
pelottae
poprads
powered suppor
prk.
Pygodidymy
Quercoidites
rainbow-colored
rate of sediment production
rhombically
roseo-compound
roundshield
Sal, Cay
second-order circuit
self-same capital
Seseňa
sister chromatid cohesion
slobber knocker
snowstorm
social action
space charges
speckle noise
stylising
syndactylous foot
Tarmina
telecontrol equipment
tenioid
tianoes
tussilagoes
two-forty-five
type method
unanswerabilities
unexpended balance of encumbrances
unhalting
unsew
urmeristem
Utraula
velocity shock
vis versa
wadboard packer
water atomizing nozzle
xyrichtys verrens
Z-lay