时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(七)月


英语课

1.The lawyer for Michael Jackson’s personal physician says his client will not comment on rumor 1, innuendo 2 or unnamed sources. That statement follows a law enforcement official telling the AP that Dr. Conrad Robert Murray gave Jackson a powerful anesthetic 3 to help him sleep. Authorities believe that drug is what caused Jackson’s heart to stop.


2.Conjoined twins born with a single body and two heads have died just five days after being born. The boys died from organ failure within minutes of one another. They were born in an Indonesian hospital last Thursday with two hearts but shared all other vital organs.


3.Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford says he wants to be moved from a private prison to a federal detention 4 center because he's been without air conditioning. Stanford also says he has to share a cell with up to ten other inmates 5. He's jailed on charges of operating a 7-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.


4.A Californian judge has appointed a lawyer to keep a close eye on the earnings 6 of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets. He says he wants to make sure the babies aren't exploited for financial gain. The family accept to star in a reality show this fall.



1 rumor
n.谣言,谣传,传说
  • The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
  • The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。
2 innuendo
n.暗指,讽刺
  • The report was based on rumours,speculation,and innuendo.这份报告建立在谣言、臆断和含沙射影的基础之上。
  • Mark told by innuendo that the opposing team would lose the game.马克暗讽地说敌队会在比赛中输掉。
3 anesthetic
n.麻醉剂,麻药;adj.麻醉的,失去知觉的
  • He was given a general anesthetic.他被全身麻醉。
  • He was still under the influence of the anesthetic.他仍处在麻醉状态。
4 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
5 inmates
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 earnings
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得
  • That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
  • Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
学英语单词
a.c./d.c. converter
aaron coplands
action spring
adjustable moving blade
afghans
AID-like syndrome
air purity
Alcarras
amysses
androgynocentric
anerythropoiesis
anterior vertebral vein
as the season progresses
authentication center
banefullest
battered baby
broden
Bulungwa
burst in
camping car
Chinese actinidia root
collice
compound bows
compound ratio
confiscable
contractarians
data communication terminal
deck sash ratchet catch
Dehio's test
dielectric oil
difference in the trend of evolution
dull sound
equation oriented simulation language
family caprifoliaceaes
first-come first-serve
flap-table
force-mass conversion constant (gc)
formwork planning
freight handling facility
front vowel
general partner
genus hydnocarpuss
geodetic effect
grease marks
guard gap
hermalone
Huitzuco
i-cleped
in the semblance of
INCLEM
indocible
iridoceratitis
JIS-BAUME
Jones falsemallow
labiogingival incision
leak testing apparatus
linear chain
local municipalities
low temperature separation
magistrand
manufacturing bookkeeping
mine-workers
mineral paragenesis
moonlights
Neuvy-Grandchamp
New Boston
non-refuelling duration
not to care a monkey's
official text
OMFI
ornithoidichnites
OVHL (overhaul)
parting slotting tool
pasko
patching jack
phrenoparalysts
prairie orchids
pre-employments
private type definition
pulper
redisbursing
rhombenporphyry
rid up
scutcheoned
set control
shaddy
snowmelt flood forecasting
sociocultural context
sound attenuation
spam relays
structural econometric model
suprarenotropism
technology service
trierarchs
Tupamaros
unicostate
Valskog
Vena intercostalis superior sinistra
via lactea
water tube grate
znamenn?y chant