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
-stricken
active workshop
agra
airtight silo
animalish
asiatic high
Baaster
barnabite
basket catch
billete
bleachiest
bliss twill
boardings-out
buffay
capacity of installing power equipment
certification date/time
China fleece vine
closed cycle refrigerator
copy that
cossarts
coupling head
Daihua Formation
degustates
delaying member
direct primary (election)
distantial
documentation programming
E-PHA
enamors
error of position line
essential tremor
Estagno Pt.
eviller
feed dog path
filling cutter
furrow lever
granulitic texture
guno
handling expense
hierarchy of effect
high viability
hippopotamus amphibiuss
Huesa
hunter-gatherers
hypovigilance
incoming selector switch
inelegancies
inlumining
intercontinental trade
intracamerally
Isomo-20
kerosenish
laminae externa
Le Fousseret
liniment of mustard
longicatenamycin
magavern
Mayo Clinic
medicinal cake
medium term outline plan
menu prompt
meteor hammer
microwave aerial
monascous
moon glow
odiids
on analysis
organo-sedimentary structure
patternsetter
photohemolysis
polystichopsis subrflexipinna shieh
posied
powerbar
procedure division for table handling
proper string
rsc
Rzn
San Salvador Island
Sanicula Europaea
schoolmistressly
Slide ruler
Sofiysko Pole
stable plasma
starch pasting
subvolcanic facies
talus fan
teleiconograph
theory of logical types
throttle pipe valve
time-shared multiplexor
titanic iron
trichothecene toxicosis
tripping off
umbilical wall
upsettably
Vitexin-2'-o-rhamnoside
water plates
winceyette
yohourt
Zymosarcina