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
(data) processing
abrading
allgovite
anigre
ant lion,antlion
artiuclus talocruralis
atrochalis
auger diameter
benign tumor of lung
boring clam
burning-quality index
burst range
Capital Medical Institute
cardioptosis
cathedral music
chemurgist
chloro-phosphonium
club-shaped ivory exostosis
column ozone
come-and-goes
computer bug
contact rsistance
crna glava
dance theatre workshop
desequilibrium
doom-doom-doom
Elterwater
Eubalaena
fall money
fathers and sons
flat latch-needle knitting machine
fleecy cloud
floating point representation of a number
fuerth
G-22355
grave marker
Half speed ahead!
hemati-
high-temperature field
hoop tension
hydrological regionalization
hypermetaphorical
inrigged
ion implantation technique
IRGA
kathmann
last unction
Lestrygonian
lineouts
loss on repossession
Madou
masersats
maximum paving thickness
mayordomos
medium burned
meridian curve of a surface of revolution
miscapitalizing
molecular cloud
Moskva River
multi-channel television
multiple flat-interface model
near at hand
oculomotor reflex
old economy
olfactophobia
ontology of cinema
opera bouffes
osteitis carnosa
paraffin phantom
photoacoustic spectrometer
polynomes
professional code
r.n
range of instabitity
rate of dissociation
reflex reflection
relative diffusion coefficient of soil air
resplitting
rhytidiadelphus squarrosus(l.)warnst
right-hand variable
RV Tauri stars
Sageretia lucida
satarupa majasra
save sb's bacon
school tax
sense stress
special material
sphero-cylindrical lens
sprindling
St-Michel-de-Castelnau
suboctave
sulfur compounds
swinging movement
Tecolostote
therapeuticizes
traffic model split
ultranationalisms
umissing
unaffectioned
werkes
whale fin
zeelands