时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月


英语课

1. The Los Angeles county coroner's finding that Michael Jackson's death was a homicide could eventually lead to criminal charges for Jackson's personal doctor. Doctor Conrad Murray told investigators 1 he gave Jackson a mix of drugs to treat the pop star's insomnia 2 in the hours before his death.


2. NASA will try again Wednesday morning to launch the shuttle Discovery. The Space Agency had scrubbed Tuesday morning's launch because of thunderstorms. Discovery will carry seven astronauts as well as thousands of pounds of space station supplies to the International Space Station.


3. An Associated Press source says President Barack Obama plans to nominate Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term. Obama will make the announcement today during a break from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard.


4. The auto 3 industry will continue to try and lure 4 customers in without the help of "Cash for Clunkers". The government program which gave auto sales the joys ended last night. Through Monday, dealers 5 are reportedly selling more than 600,000 vehicles in just a month for the government rebates 6.



1 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 insomnia
n.失眠,失眠症
  • Worries and tenseness can lead to insomnia.忧虑和紧张会导致失眠。
  • He is suffering from insomnia.他患失眠症。
3 auto
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
4 lure
n.吸引人的东西,诱惑物;vt.引诱,吸引
  • Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
  • He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。
5 dealers
n.商人( dealer的名词复数 );贩毒者;毒品贩子;发牌者
  • There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
  • The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败,与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
6 rebates
n.退还款( rebate的名词复数 );回扣;返还(退还的部份货价);折扣
  • The VAT system offers advantages, such as rebates on exports. 增值税有其优点,如对出口商品实行回扣。 来自辞典例句
  • In more recent years rate rebates have been introduced for households. 近年地方税的减免已适用于家庭。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
accusatorial
adiponecrosis subcutanea neonatorum
afflictingly
alveolate, alveolated
apparent unit stress
auction bridges
balance lug
bid-rent curve
brillo-pads
bullet probe
burrill
by-pass valve for drill stem test
calgarths
Calvin, Melvin
Cannabis sativa L.
capital gains tax
caput obliquum musculi adductoris pollicis
chemical manufacture alkylation
China America Insurance Company
chromium phosphate
cold-calling
concave bank
convulsive shock therapy
cosecant squared beam
crested lark
diamond bird,diamond-bird
dioleostearin
distachys
dope transistor
economic control law
emplasters
erythema multiforme bullosum
estuary hydrology
exchange participant certificate
expletive
external combustion ramjet
extraviscera
fauxgressives
first class goods
flexible disk cartridge
gelastocorid
gelatose
genus Inga
gmra
granage
haemadynamics
have an interview with
histocompatibility testing
home-schooled
horizontal ribbon mixer
hydrotroilite
hypodermic
independence in appearance
intelligent management system
isothiazolinone
kulanapans
liquescency
lobately
loss of energy probability
Madley, Mt.
make no reply
manzanitas
methyrapone test
moisture density test
moronically
multiple point recording potentiometer
myrrhite
nam-pla
nasal aspergillosis
Navigation Acts
non-standard axial cutting tool
nozzle line strainer
order batch control update
pentadecanes
pievish
Pitlyar
predictive texting
pro forma invoices
Psst
ravada
relief method
restuck
roller cutter
rope-suspended hoist
second order perturbation
selfname
serpentine wall
similarity variable
stationary screen
straight-through combustion chamber
stuff up
tensible rigidity
third ager
time history duplication
Tonbridge and Malling
total reflectivity
uncontrolled company
unripe fruit
upper guard sill
vertical force
wheretill
window rail