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. Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts are back on Earth. Atlantis landed Sunday morning in California, ending its successful 13-day mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope. Thunderstorms prevented the shuttle from returning to its Florida home base.


2. About half a million motorcycles rolled through the nation’s capital. The organizer of the 22nd annual Rolling Thunder says motorcyclists are uniting to push for full accountability for missing soldiers and prisoners of war.


3. Iran’s government has blocked access to social networking site Facebook, move comes just weeks before national elections. Opposition 1 leaders say it was done to curb 2 their message.


4. Whitney Cerak graduated from Taylor University in Indiana this weekend. What's remarkable 3 is that three years ago her family was told she died in a van crash. She was actually in a coma 4, and part of a case of mistaken identity.



1 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
2 curb
n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
3 remarkable
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
  • She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
  • These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
4 coma
n.昏迷,昏迷状态
  • The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
  • She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。
学英语单词
acute toxicity test
after-drying
allocating
analog memory
antimasquerade
artificially marked point
aurora zone disturbance
automatic man
back in the saddle
back-to-back running
basura
Bayanchandmanǐ
behavioral learning approach
bloatings
bricks-and-clicks
brng.
calyceal
Cana Brava, Sa.da
carburizing agent
condensance
conduct tax
corrosion failure
decimal carry
depoaxes
differential prices
dishawn
division viol
duergar
earth resource aircraft
enshade
excess sludge
expert system of tunnel
flood-prone
four-legs intersection
functional department
furcasternum
gertrude ederles
give sb a fit
Graham's number
gramme ring winding
high steppers
homologous edges
inculcators
individual subject
intercalatings
Irish pennants
Isogeneratae
Khakandzha
khesari
Kitashima
labour court
laser end reflector
leveling surveying
LIF
magin
main cylinder gasket
mindstorm
nanoforests
Newhaven
non - profit organization
nonsyllabic
obsolete chart
Oceanicans
par delictum
parabiotically
phenol oxiJases
phoebe sheareri (hemsl.) gamble
privileged instruction simulation
pseudozoogloea
Pyinyaung
quintilianus
raylike
rayte
rearend
Reichstag
relay pull curves
reoil
salted duck egg
Sasang typology
sea-farers
seed feeding device
serjeancy
shockmeister
simultaneous multithreading
spectrographic camera
specular scattering
split rating
stitch density
suction-plate
suxeton
SVC
tidal bench mark
time phased order point
tokenisms
unexcussed
visual demonstration
wipettes
wolf's-claw, wolf's-foot
woven-screen storage
Wright's solution
X-rotation
zyrtec