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
aconate
action point.
active set
air base
akishi
ally with
aspden
auxiliary stylet
baccha (allobaccha) sapphirina
beam scale
billie jean
binocular diplopia
blast gage
boreens
brain-washings
CD-ROM audio cable
cerium crude
chiloscyllium indieum
coal environmental control
coin-operateds
commerband
condicio impossibilis
converter thyristor
Deller
Dextrostat
dynamic libration
easy-to-get-to
end width
entrainment eliminator
fire extinguishing with pressure balancing
fleet missile
fluidizing
forecast of epiphytotic disease
fun-house
gruelly
hepteract
hook formation
hypogastric zone
IF bandpass filter
implorings
inorganics
interferograph
intermediate field
irrigated farming
junior-high-school
kalisyenite
kidgell
kyrine
lactifers
ladder splint
leave hanging in the air
lemoniness
luders lines
lying-in
marine biological resource
MFLA
Millard-Gubler syndrome
mitys
mixed power plant
mollemann
multimedia gulch
narrow-zoned
omnibus speaker circuit
orbities
PCP-Induced
Pemarung, Pulau
Petrinized
phytophthora cyperi-iriae
pigout, pig-out
platinised
pointleted
poliotelium hyalospora
Polyloom
putting through
radices taraxaci
recursive domain definition
red-hots
reverse acting spiral
Roger Bannister
schuldere
sequinning
slow season
soul-sucking
sparse set
strokal
superficial gravity
tea lead
teaser transformator
ternary feldspar
tetraploid breeding technique
trachyspermum scaberulum(franch.)wolff
truck brake rigging
unitarity
uttered
V.
vcs
vertical sliding door
volcanized
water cooled copper tube mould
wine-time
Wotton, Sir Henry
yoniss