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.C.I.B.
acicular ferrite
actio de pauperie
after-sale
Agarista
ammonium primary phosphate
amphibryous
ankles
annunciata
APEX 2,Apex
archmere
arms sales
Bacillus xanthinum
Becholine
better-than-expected
bimillennia
blueball
bypoint
capacitance type sensor
Centrospermae
Champtoceaux
chrysophyllum oliviformes
clarkes creek
column sum of a matrix
concussionary
copy taster
craked
Cushing's basophilism
detached iris
dishonoured notes
don't give it another thought
dursn't
electric fencing
exanthesis
expediates
express feelings
Félicité I.
gasoscope
gilleece
glaucophytes
glycosylases
grafting mallet
guide pillars and bushes
hatband
hemotrichorial placenta
hohl
i-worthe
instruction to bidders
Italian tile
jelly centre
lesser palatine canals
limestone hawksbeard
LVPSP
mailly-champagnes
medicinals
MIIC
minitype
muciparous
muscular rheumatism
normal fuel capacity
nucleus quintus
NVT
Ohaupo
original painting
oscillating pneumatic roller
particle board
poona pea
Prekmurian
quartermasterships
quick-change gear lathe
re-definitions
recooling system
refractory hard metals
remotely piloted target aircraft
return on investment capital
right angled drive
RNA virus
saleableness
Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
severity rating
Sida orientalis
six-yards
sling procedure for stress incontinence
smectite
solid draw tube
standardized mortality rate
summer manuring
suppressed-zero range
syphilophobic
taconic mountainss
there's a good boy
topometry
tragifarce
tricity
unfavored
variable modulus of elasticity
waveguide array antenna
well found
Whitehead operation
wreathe around
xylophyta
yellow watercress