时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(六)月


英语课

1. President Barack Obama expressed outrage 1 at the violent crackdown by the Iranian government against protesters of the disputed presidential election. Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama said the US joins the international community in condemning 2 what he called the threats, beatings and imprisonments of the last few days.


2. Metro 3 transit 4 officials in Washington D.C. are confirming an earlier report that nine people were killed in a train collision. Mayor Adrian Fenty said at an earlier news conference that seven people had died and he hoped the death toll 5 would not increase. The accident was the worst in the 33-year history of the Metrorail system.


3. Ed McMahon, whose trademark 6 laugh accompanied Johnny Carson's jokes on the "Tonight Show" for 30 years died early Tuesday. He was 86. His publicist didn't give a cause of death, saying McMahon had a multitude of health problems the last few months.


4. Americans Venus Williams and Andy Roddick won their opening round matches at Wimbledon. Williams is seeking her third straight Wimbledon title. The sixth-seeded Roddick is hoping to win his first.



1 outrage
n.暴行,侮辱,愤怒;vt.凌辱,激怒
  • When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
  • We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
2 condemning
v.(通常因道义上的原因而)谴责( condemn的现在分词 );宣判;宣布…不能使用;迫使…陷于不幸的境地
  • The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
  • I concur with the speaker in condemning what has been done. 我同意发言者对所做的事加以谴责。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3 metro
n.地铁;adj.大都市的;(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国,主要经营零售)
  • Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗?
  • The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。
4 transit
n.经过,运输;vt.穿越,旋转;vi.越过
  • His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
  • The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
5 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
6 trademark
n.商标;特征;vt.注册的…商标
  • The trademark is registered on the book of the Patent Office.该商标已在专利局登记注册。
  • The trademark of the pen was changed.这钢笔的商标改了。
学英语单词
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
accrued benefit
acid cured epoxy resin
air-gap torque motor
al mahdam
anilin dye
aphorismic
Ayuy
bandy-bandy
blade-removal opening
blanched garlic leaves
borerproof plywood
bottom contraction
bregmatic bone
bring to ruin
BSD license
charges for licensing of import permit
cheese plate
cidoxepine
clinosafflorite
commodity price
computational domain
conducting wheel
cross-hair
damage line test
daybreaks
door-to-door transport
doxetaxel
Edwardiana
electrovalency
endocervicoma
eothyridids
eribons
external wrinkle
Fagonia
following acceleration
Freyssinet concrete hinge
graft-versus-host disease (gvhd)
helsing
high nutritive value
high-resolution colour picture
imbellic
in the shower
indium hydrosulfide
Iranophones
irsogladine
isomorphism of sheaves
John Trumbull
khephren
Kor, Rūd-e
kyou mai (japan)
late burst
lay of the case
leaf lamina
life preservers
make reprisal
mcghan
melena spuria
Mladotice
mortianna
myokymias
Nioaque
NLat
North Australian Basin
open-studio
orthoterio
outdistanced
overyear storage
paradoxical reaction
parallel scheduling
pathologic rigidity
petroleum ester
phaeocryptopus nudus
phase-recovery time
progressivement
psychology of public prosecution
pull cut shaper
pull out of
quasi-periodic
range of composition
re-located
reader-in-the-text
remote focusing
retail store cooperative
riceballs
shorted
slot turning
spamalot
stigmatic chamber
strategic acquisition
the RAF
thiadiazol
thornings
time division multiplex
time shift
TLC
twoscores
Uli
vehemences
war advocacy
war surplus
yirb