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
additive color method
adjudicating
afosr
age allowance
agen
aliver
angiological therapeutics
Armillifer moniliformis
Ban Na Mang
be authorized
bioelectronicear
biotin-conjugated
Brioux
bronchial cast
Brownbranch
Burton's sign
C.V.O.
carriage inspection shed
carved wooden chest
CBCS
CEBP
chemiluminescent material
collection-and-distribution service
compounded essential oil
computable inductance
concave plane
continental sedimentation
crust soil
crystal activity
depthsounder
down on your luck
dyep
Dylene
Ecktreppe
economic goal
electric power tool
Esafosfina
estren
export bar
floorperson
frame ground
full service bank
gates of dawn
goround
grateless
gubernacular cord
handgoniometer
hatching eggs per setting
hebelpachymeter
helipilot
hude
hydraulic jet mixer
hyperoxaluric
intergranular space
isoconcentration diffusion
Kalkmanganspat
laryngopharyngeoscope
leave someone cool
lug-aleaf
lunomancy
maturely
mckirdy
methoxystyrene
Mindoro Occidental, Prov.of
misbileve
musical saw
negative acceleration phase
number of times
octylglucosides
oraculousness
palour
paraboloid of revolution
pocket beach
port sill structure
premodinantly
pretextures
primary dump system
processabilities
radioresistances
Rejects Box
relic(t) species
reswarm
salt shake
sap-head
Scat.
scout on the lay
Songgye
Spasmolysin
speckle interferometer
sporidesmium magnibrachypus
Stewartia nanlingensis
Stomochara
three ply riveting
tick-bite paralysis
toxic diabetes
trigger effect
Trutnov
wage differential
war neurosis
Wartsila
waterproofing protection
welding strength