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


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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
add-ins available
allowable limit of vibration to human body
amay
bacteroides nodosus
biastigmatism
bishopries
book confirnation
Briggsia pinfaensis
bubble transfer switch
calculating scale
card spider
centerspread
cops her
corkscrew flowers
decension
denize
Distributed Network System
educational television
electronic magnification
erosion ramp
eustatic chart
externally operable part
ferrophytin
finished pieces
floors-to-ceiling
foldbelt
foot lifter
foot oil
form-fitting
Fort Hertz
generalized solution of Lagrange
genus Polyergus
girder framing into column
Goldscheider's test
grand inquest
hadite
hazees
homalonotids
in-kind subsidy
income budget
intermuscular bone
justitie
kinematic(al) parameter
kurons
lamel cathode
lamina of cricoid cartilage
lanternslide
largy
levien
licensing power
line-of-sight geometry
loading/unloading lot
maintenability
man-hour requirement
marbled cats
marine wiring accessoroies
mezzotint
miarolitic texture
morphotyping
mountains-and-waters painting
multiple strand rope
Nageotte cells
neatness
Neckereae
needfully
nodal processing delay
out of consideration for
pohlia wahlenbergii
pole-lathe
poynette
Primula cawdoriana
Préchacq-les-Bains
rate of transverse motion
red bed karst
relocation of track
resonance zone
return to work
Richter motor
rolling meadows
Saint Francis River
Saxonical
searching behavio(u)r
sending-end transformer
shoujo ai
singing
slight torn grain
sopras
stairway and passage way arrangement
suborder homopteras
Surigao del Sur, Prov.of
template gage
the politburo
the unknown
thread class
trade safe-guarding act
tumblers
ultrareliable modular computer
volume change
wefty
wide boys
working paper review
woz ere