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
aberson
AC average value rectifier instrument
alluvial soil
amylism
anode sludge
anti - rust oil
apistus carinatus
Appenzell, Kant.
Augsburg cabinet
automatic distant signal
bedrules
BEecf
believe my eyes
benzoporphyrin
bumecaine
burgamot
Calhoun City
cargo head
carnegie test of social studies
celtique
chassised
Cheirotonus
Chuquibambilla
Clarissa
curve rulers
cut tree
dermal myiasis
dermapteran
detailed map
dihedrals
direct acting recording instrument
double -impeller pump
downward bulge
electron coupled multivibrator
elevation selsyn transformator
elsener
expressway generation
facekini
Fossa cerebralis
fueling, fuelling
Garyansellite
global irradiation
hakimi
harbold
hilus
homoveratrylamine
Humoferrite
hush houses
hydraulic device
idle-pulley
implantings
infrared rays
kid table
know neither buff nor stye
Leptospira icteroides
log transportation by truck
low-voltage transformer
luedtke
man-overboard maneuver
manelessness
masse shots
medium tunnel
metatarsal tunnel syndrome
methoxyhemigossypol
microsome heme oxygenase
n-Chimerin
net plan
network utility
nickel hydroxide
no cargo on board
non-religious
obata
opio-
order for sale
oxytetracyclines
Peypin
polybinary code
pseudo-apospory
pseudosciences
punctuational
radar wave packer
reasonlessly
recommissioned
residual hum
rheostat
semi-axe
sferics network
spacing adjustment
stay in place
strobe lighting
subpolyhedron
telegraph alphabet
tensionings
textile floorcovering
TNPS (third nuclear power station)
to maintain
translation bridging
twin induction voltage regulator
wake from
whereinne
wiener's theorem
written defence in arbitration