时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(六)月


英语课

1.Wall Street investor 1 Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme. The victims who lost millions of dollars urged a stiff sentence. The 71-year-old financier says he will live with pain and torment 2 for the rest of his life.


2.A group of white firefighters won their reverse discrimination case against New Haven 3, Connecticut. The Supreme 4 Court says they were unfairly denied promotions 5 because of their race. The city said it was only trying to avoid a lawsuit 6 for minorities.


3.Michael Jackson's mother has been given temporary guardianship 7 of the singer's three children. Court documents say she doesn't know where to find the mother of Jackson's two oldest children. She and the children are maintaining a low profile at the Jackson family home in California.


4.The Honduran army ousted 8 the country's democratically elected president and Congress named a successor.  Latin-America's leaders are holding emergency talks in Nicaragua, hoping to restore Manuel Zelaya to power.



1 investor
n.投资者,投资人
  • My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
  • The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。
2 torment
n.折磨;令人痛苦的东西(人);vt.折磨;纠缠
  • He has never suffered the torment of rejection.他从未经受过遭人拒绝的痛苦。
  • Now nothing aggravates me more than when people torment each other.没有什么东西比人们的互相折磨更使我愤怒。
3 haven
n.安全的地方,避难所,庇护所
  • It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后,这真是一个安乐窝。
  • The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。
4 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
5 promotions
促进( promotion的名词复数 ); 提升; 推广; 宣传
  • All services or promotions must have an appeal and wide application. 所有服务或促销工作都必须具有吸引力和广泛的适用性。
  • He promptly directed the highest promotions and decorations for General MacArthur. 他授予麦克阿瑟将军以最高的官阶和勋奖。
6 lawsuit
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
7 guardianship
n. 监护, 保护, 守护
  • They had to employ the English language in face of the jealous guardianship of Britain. 他们不得不在英国疑忌重重的监护下使用英文。
  • You want Marion to set aside her legal guardianship and give you Honoria. 你要马丽恩放弃她的法定监护人资格,把霍诺丽娅交给你。
8 ousted
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺
  • He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
  • He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。
学英语单词
a drop in the bucket
admissible load
ailish
airborne geochemical exploration
angina septica
arteriae epigastrica superior
automatic exposure control system
blind cover
bones of foot
Bou Azzer
broadseal
buttress zone
Canxixe
chamber of commerce
checkered steel plate
Chimonobambusa armata
chokedar
Cloonfad
clyve
coal mine
colo(u)r vision
colony for investment
commingled yarn
communicableness
crunchier
cylinder mixer
delapril
digladiates
dispropriated
DIVADS
doany
dominance system
drain-body junction
eternal law
evisceration of orbit
feed formula
field reversal
financial resource
formal-actual parameter correspondence
FSM (fine striped memory)
glomeratas
Haines's formula
harrelsons
hematogeneous
Heusenstamm
interaction cross section
intermediate frequency furnace
Jacques Monod
john smiths
karyolymph
kick-stepped
knockahs
knot torus
lanestenyl
lepidoblastic texture
liberal constructionist
lites
loom mechanism
mani-pedi
medical welfare
metroprolol
mine loading mass
neodymium glass laser rod
non-governmental agency
Norddal
otological
partly paid share capital
peromelic monster
plane table triangulation
pontoon-tank roof
portuguese dance
program interaction
pupillogram
push someone to the wall
reventilate
romper suit
root cause
rossetter
serial communication controller
serial plate camera
Sicilian rose
skunkworks project
slack-keys
southwesterlies
stone crusher
stored grain insects
t'iao tuan kung
tax on buildings
telegraph signal
Trece Martires
triamide
triethyl-carbinol
tuymans
unprofor
urgency call
vane relay
Velefique
ventral diaphragm
vertical circle level
waitrons
wool-jersey
zonen