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
aethalia
allusiveness
anaesthetizes
appraisal of plant
basement battler
basis of calculation
beadlike
bitumen-dipped hemp
borzhomi (borjomi)
bridgeless
bulbipelles
cannabic oil
chop circuit
command telephone
conference-room
control circuit transformer
counter flow heater
cuche
dash dot line
defant's model
defensure
determination of range of audibility for sound signals
Deuterostoma, Deuterostomata
EMI,emi
Eurogamer
fine for delayed payment
finny
forum originis
glide path equipment
graphic equaliser
groovin'
group spring
halt instruction
heir benificiary
Henry Kater, Cape
high pressure steam process
holy mountain
hydromechanical actuator
hypopial nymph
iDollators
increase decrease plan
karlas
Kyatkon
ladykin
lassoes
let daylight into sb.
longnose
Marquis' reagent
Mayumba(Mayoumba)
Menotti, Gian Carlo
mercryl
morshead
mud rime
multilasered optical radar
nonstraight line correlation
number of turnovers of current capital
Obe-Nix
outcome space
parallel links
passive array
passive two-port
piezoelectric seismometer
plagiorchis phillippinensis
pleural sinus
pre-employment health examination
propylamine
proshow
PRRA
pseudohaloritids
purpures
ramus intersegment. profund.
remanence
ridgley
rotary drill jumbo
rudder palm
saint lawrence island
scintipan
scurfily
shimmy-shammy
shoot that
signature recognitions
simplon
sound recognition
sperometer
split-channel
stahler
stellate parenchyma
synchro repeater
telecom hotel
tungued-and-grooved face
uncapacity
unsiphon
Uriah Heepishly
validity date
Valvovaginitis
vapour density apparatus
velvet paws
view finders
waleses
web shopfront
worral
xylem tissue