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 ging
abatement order
administrative union
aids-awareness
alligator skin
Androsace mirabilis
asterisk protection
atkinson's friction coefficient
axiation
Az Zaqqum
baked beef
bayaud
beam-loading
behind the bit
bivalencies
bone scan
broom sedge
capitals of mozambique
cat salt
cat-box
charles xii
Cinobufaginol
composite (paper) can
correlation tracking and triangulation
creditor claim
damage or exception list
Denholme
diesel hydraulic
double-wave soldering
dynamicized
electric remote
entrance of pass
fair preponderance of evidence
filmy fern
firn limit
fli
fort.
functional disorders
gap value
gas inlet housing
green paper
head-heights
Huynh Phu So
hyperpresbyopia
infra-spinous fossa
inside edges
internal time varying perturbations
Kalle consistency regulator
leftbacks
liberalmindedness
lifescan
line dry
line-breadth phenomenon
loves ruses
magnetic rubber
malestroits
mariet
Matit, Rrethi i
maximum segregation
metabolic syndrome
Navy support element
needie
nella
other qry subject filter
pancreatico-mesenteric artery
panhellenion
parcel post zone
pellicular water
permission certificate of business
piptocephalis fimbriata
pomacea bridgesii effusa
poodled
postpermanent teeth
potassium beryllium oxalate
Pratola Serra
pregnant construction
proceed signal
Purchas, Samuel
put something about
reflection electron beam holography
rejuggling
roll one's own
sequential-alarm module
sharing profits and losses
Sinophile
solid state track detector
sow discord
sugar orchard
surviving widow
Tahuna
tatungshan formation
temperature control coating
tetramethylputrescine
thermal capture
three-bit byte
tindora
tonal gradient
tum tums
turn a deaf deaf ears
universal time (u.t.)
Villanterio
warming coil