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
Air India
alkaline series
amassers
amphigynous
antigrading
antisudorific
arrive at an agreement
automatic ship class notation
be willing to do sth
bismuth orthophosphate
bog whortleberries
boogie men
Cantábrica, Cord.
capitals of slovakia
cargo tank over-flow protection
China's Securities Regulatory Commission
circumscribed goiter
Clupeoidei
crepenynic acid
desensitisers
dire straitss
dishabilitates
dismissal with prejudice
effective directivity factor
engine room top plate
finding the inverse matrix
florivorous
follow-ups
freedom of speech
from experience
fructus cardamomi
FRV
fuel processing industry
gentle-heart
giant frog
graete
group-call
holding capacity of bin
home-ribbed
hydrogen nitride
immunomechanism
individualist culture
INSEP
insurance fund
keep fair with
legal blindness
line upkeep
location diffusion
Lorrain, Claude
lubbockia marukawai
meanish
milling frolic
Miskitos, Cayos
neighbourhead
neutral reduction
no box type valve body
non-graphic/video terminal
Nord, Dép.du
not have a moment to call one's own
object of assessment
on-market share repurchase
open primary
orthoacid
overpoising
parriott
peaked-lapel
perpendicular iosertion
Petrocosmea
phospharenite
Pilea squamosa
play day
plumb bob vertical
polynuclear leucocyte
pruritus balnea
pubic arch angle
pulsed lidar
regular-tap
ringss
Ruunaa
salicin(e)
sindermann
sinistrous
spels
stack marker
striction
suturing
sux
swine vesicular disease
temporal retina
tenesmic
Thermofor(catalytic) cracking
thio-aldehyde
thiotrophic
tonograph
tree-protector
two cylinder steering gear
unlinked
unsteady separated flow
vory
Vtoroy Kurkl'skiy Proliv
winter dike
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