时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月


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1. Ben Bernanke sees the beginning of the end of the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve chairman says economic activity in the US and around the world appears to be leveling out and the prospects 1 for a return to growth in the near term appear good. Though he warns difficult challenges still lie ahead.


 2. President Obama is describing the elaborate homecoming of the freed Lockerbie bomber 2 in Libya as "highly objectionable". He was freed from a Scotland prison because he's dying of prostate cancer. 


 3. A possible glimpse of the defense 3 for Casey Anthony. Attorney used for the Florida mom charged with killing 4 her two-year-old daughter Caylee claimed Friday that she could not have killed the child because the toddler's remains 5 were left in the woods while she was in jail.


 4. This python put the squeeze on people looking for cash at this ATM machine in Serbia. Customers found the six-and-a-half-foot python sprawled 6 over the machine in the center of town. Firefighters eventually captured the reptile 7.  



1 prospects
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
2 bomber
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
3 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
5 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
6 sprawled
v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词);蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着)
  • He was sprawled full-length across the bed. 他手脚摊开横躺在床上。
  • He was lying sprawled in an armchair, watching TV. 他四肢伸开正懒散地靠在扶手椅上看电视。
7 reptile
n.爬行动物;两栖动物
  • The frog is not a true reptile.青蛙并非真正的爬行动物。
  • So you should not be surprised to see someone keep a reptile as a pet.所以,你不必惊奇有人养了一只爬行动物作为宠物。
学英语单词
advertising map
ammonium ferric chloride
amplifying transformator
aphorists
auction by tender
Bethesdan
bias magnetic field
big style
blow-pipe bead
bluff erosion
bottom pour mold
bulk-oil breaker
bunned
buphthalmum salicifoliums
carolus-duran
CFS Packed Container
chequerings
chlorinated polyether
chocolate-house
class of algorithms
comeditie
concrete labour
counterproves
danna
diabatic crossing
diffusing globe
Diphysium
disson
doormat
double blossom
double-head chaplet
Duayaw-Nkwanta
earthliker
elode
entire series
equipment compatibility
equivalent potential source
Esira
estimation by the method of moment
estrechoes
exercise myoglobinuria
extraprostatic
Felis ocreata
group insurance deduction payable
Gulubī
Homosassa Springs
huish
hypertriglyceridemic
indurated talc
intermediolateral
itinerant worker
labour standards
lactoria diaphana
lammy
laparomicroscopy
library suppot
limit velocity
limiting depth
Lithocarpus tabularis
logical file code
long credit
Lyell, Sir Charles
madderlen
marine satellite
metestick
minicomputer software
multipurpose cartridge
mutinus bambusinus
neobornyial
Philip The Evangelist, Saint
pituitary function
power barrow
power broom
president's
pulling circuit
Pygmaeopremna
quaternion group
radio-show
ranchwomen
reparations in cash
retardedly
root room
rotary cutting machine
screw microscope
scuffe
seaplane base
semi-automatic circular sawing machine
silkweeds
silvina
sizzle
slender froelichia
snap-trap method
Squaw I.
standby unit
tactical system management
Taeniorhynchus
upright cordon
Volpone
Wabash County
wear of brush
windstick