时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(九)月


英语课

1. Three men charged with lying to federal authorities in a terrorism investigation 1 are expected to appear in court today. Court documents claim one of the men has admitted to being trained by al-Qaeda and played a direct role in an alleged 2 terrorist plot.


2. Police in Florida say this man is a person of interest in the killings 3 of his wife and five young children. They were found dead over the weekend. Investigators 4 say Mesac Damas boarded a flight to Haiti last week.


3. A legally insane killer 5 is back in custody 6 in Washington State after slipping away from a field trip to a fair from his mental institution. Phillip Paul surrendered without incident yesterday about 180 miles from where he disappeared.


 4. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans flocked to a "peace concert" in Havana. Some officials used the event to put down the US trade embargo 7 against the country. But the performers say the show was about music, not politics.


 



1 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
2 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
3 killings
谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发
  • His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
  • The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
4 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 killer
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
6 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
7 embargo
n.禁运(令);vt.对...实行禁运,禁止(通商)
  • This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
  • During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间,他们禁止与敌国通商。
学英语单词
2-AT
abhorrition
abralia andamanica
accepted accounting principle
additive drag coefficient
advanced public transportation system
african marigolds
alphabetical punch
Amanita rubescens
anode transformator
Anoyia
asymptotic efficiency of bayes estimators
Atlas el Kebir
ball joint inclination
batch composition
beaudouins
bickerns
biggarts
Bolocephalus
bottlenose whales
branch type
broadcastable
broncho-esophageal fistula
bumping along
calcovarin
capital of Trinidad and Tobago
chaykin
clamped capacitance
class Pteridospermopsida
class schizomycetess
cochliobolus stenospilus(carpenter) matsum et yaman.
cropped soil
de-criminalization
dead metal
dijudicates
Diplock
direct prompt reaction
dumped
dynamic negative space
egressions
enkidus
equatorial gnomonic graticules
erysovine
evnice
exchange anisotropy
expiscating
fluffas
friction heating
gebara
hilarions
impolders
in all senses
in some detail
intercranial
interferometer system
involutes
isopropyl fluoride
leverok
light hole state
master processor program
medical menitoring system
meproscillarin
mesocratic rock
Mitchinamécus, Rés.
morrigus
multi-story structure
Nirgunty
nitrogen trichloride
NWSN
oceanog.
optical add-drop multiplexers
paraffin asphalt petroleum
petalage
phase-comparison circuit
pinus albicauliss
plaited packing
pulverous
push-rod oscillating tooth
pusilog
ranforced
reizenstein
rock-salmon
saturation-vapor pressure
save file system resource
self-locking steering gear
solventless
spore print
strawhead
subject-verb-objects
tack-head
take no part in
Teophyline
terrazzos
thyreoepirhelioma
torpedo motorboat
Turukhanskiy Rayon
Témiscamie R.
uk drama
watch(-)dog
Witchai L.
work output
yv