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
a bracket
a long cry
Achélouma
air punch
anemogram
anticolonialist
attack on
balanc(ing) circuit
booster operating lever
brimmed with
cartilagines nasi
clingwrap
combustion control station
combustion pot
complex data editing
consolidated statement
dascyllus reticulatus
driven antenna
easy on the eye
eglisia lanceolata
environmental-education
equity subscription
erect bugles
erythrochroism
exit macro instruction
exogamete
family chironomidaes
feminist theology
FGFR
financial duty
firing cylinder
flame velocity
give ... away
GM_that-clauses
guassian circlar aperture distribution
guayule
hold ladder
hybrid beam
intemperate
investment environment
kansai
kassabs
Knapdale
Kolchak, Alaksander Vasilyevich
kuhlia rupestris
large cylinder
lochaber sword dance (scotland)
matchman
Meia Meia
memcon
neurotransmiter
nondeteriorating supplies
np product
npo body
omnis cellula cellula
orange sapphire
overidealized
ovum operculum
paleotemperatures
palletlike
palpifer hopponis
pannus carnosus
panzootic
parhypate
partial antagonist
phosphorus sesquisulphide
pitch rate gyroscope
plastic container
pocerounce
polyembryonic
pulsating fatigue limit
purchasing director
quadrature filtering
Queenslander
quoyle
Ramus glandularis anterior
reconsolidates
red hematite
regular packing
result account
rockpile
rozhkovite (palladian auricuprite)
scrubber tank
secondary transfer standard
shared ordered variable
silent spring
silver mirror test
spinderella
stainless sheet steel
statementing
sulcus for middle meningeal artery
teletype code
thousands separator
trap plant
underground water(ground water)
underlying net
usualis
vortex core
well graded
well pumpage
wiring-saved apparatus
zymophorous