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
adenium multiflorums
adjustabilities
aircraft motor gasoline
annual forecast
anti aircraft gun laying radar
autohelm
bannerets
barium succinate
basement maturity
be well again
bellyake
boiler head
boraciferous
break down point
camp meetings
cascade machines
cecchettis
Changshanian Age
chastisement
chicken giblets soup
chul
come the big figure
command economy
coney
Connecticutter
consumer's rent
control length
coordinate polymerization
corrodiary
cubic-feet per minute
damage line
debre sina
Doctor of Laws
duck-walk
eastern type toilet
ecological differentiation
embalment
end-diastolic(segment)length
EOL system
erior
erythema caloricum
fix-fax
foliar age index
Gallicanism
gas-jets
gauge point wear
general average sacrifies
genus Microdipodops
giggle juice
glasnik
humidity-sensitive resistance material
hyperestrogenic
in the event of something
indicated horse-hour
injected gas
integral-derivative action control
interscene
interworking between user classes of services
is-ought problem
Izerhane
Jacquemin's tests
jankowiak
konarski
laminar shear flow
lock rib
matrix column spacing
medullated(axon)spike
mercury electrode
metheglin
monkey flower
multi-purpose dustmeasuring instrument
multi-roll withdrawal machine
multicolor digital plotter
multiple cartridge
new-ball
off their nut
ophthalmocele
polling overhead
sarcomatodes
sasnstsis-s
scanning pattern image
shearing modulus of elasticity
silica thermometry
smuon
socialist state-run enterprise
speculate
stem/leaf ratio
supercharging system
tarabon
tauremycin
the Occident
the way the ball bounces
theamin
time register
tunnel slots
turtle bacillus
tytely
wedding-chapel
weigh upon
whirlpool
works of supererogation
wrought iron bend