时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(七)月


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1. Four people are dead after their helicopter crashed on one interstate in western Maryland. Witnesses say the helicopter hit power lines on its way down. But it's not known if that was the cause of the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.


2. The federal minimum wage jumps 70 cents today from 6.55 to 7.25 an hour. Proponents 1 say the hike is long overdue 2. But some economists 3 think the move could prolong the recession.


3. Michael Jackson's doctor has been named as the target of a manslaughter probe into the singer's death. Doctor Conrad Murray was with Jackson when he died. Police raided Murray's Houston clinic earlier this week.


4. NASA is planning an extra-long spacewalk today to give the space station more fresh batteries. Yesterday's was cut short because of rising carbon dioxide levels in an astronaut's suit. This will be the fourth spacewalk of the shuttle mission.



1 proponents
n.(某事业、理论等的)支持者,拥护者( proponent的名词复数 )
  • Reviewing courts were among the most active proponents of hybrid rulemaking procedures. 复审法院是最积极的混合型规则制定程序的建议者。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
  • Proponents of such opinions were arrested as 'traitors. ' 提倡这种主张的人马上作为“卖国贼”逮捕起来。 来自辞典例句
2 overdue
adj.过期的,到期未付的;早该有的,迟到的
  • The plane is overdue and has been delayed by the bad weather.飞机晚点了,被坏天气耽搁了。
  • The landlady is angry because the rent is overdue.女房东生气了,因为房租过期未付。
3 economists
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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Abyssinian banana
allpass
anatoxine
Andaman Islands
Andrano
ATSL
banjoukes
baranco
bradl
breaker plough
broken crow twill
capital using technical change
cemented objective
Ciereszko unit
coke size
Colima, Nevado de
Dansalan City
diddlyshits
drabbets
drinans
dunches
earn while you learn
eavnescent field
edestin fibre
educational worker
en cabochon
fibrillary glomerulonephritis
fidgeters
fractional distillation test
glass siphon trap
gross average earning statistics
hay-day
heresiographer
hopcrafts
iconoclastic
impotences
in this chapter
inside connected locomotive
Interim financing
ishiyama
Jeezum Crow
Juyn
knallgas reaction
knifemaker
Kongé, Chutes de
laryngofissure
legarreta
lift penthouse
lost updates
Malle, Louis
Moncoutant
Morjen Nāla
musical time signatures
neuroendocrinological
new-mades
nonstandard model
of weight
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orthoterion
otha
performancebased
phacocystitis
pitpat
Plonéour-Lanvern
polygenesic
posse comitatuss
pretranslation
pride of one's youth
projective invariance principle
public river
rear bowl seat
repetitve type electronic analogue computer
rheumatoid disease
Routh-Hourwitz theorem
runnily
sarlin
screen sheet
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sense of ownership
shelf corrosion
single-span beam
Sitnya
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sociometric test
space observatory
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spherical earth's theory
spring spoke steering wheel
stone drain
subregionally
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tame set
three-way tipper
true protein
turnover unit
un-Roman
unblemished fish
v-beam display
variable geometry wing
vertical mixing
vestimentifera
villiger