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
(terthiophen)yl
abettal
activation block
aglyconic
Almquist unit
amount limit
at-class
automatic sensing display flag
Auvergnese
Boltzman distribution law
chromizes
cobefrin
common emitter junction phototransistor
compass of competency
cotton scarlet
current weighted index
dangl
debused
delayed plan position indicator
deodorization by water wash
digital audio workstation
duterte
dysostosis enchondralis metaepiphysaria
ectendotrophic mycorrhiza
exterior trim
facies sphenomaxillaris
first-aid surgery
front connection type
fullwave rectifier
gamma-loop
garbage-fired boiler
gas train
gigatesla
gradient charge
gummatous proctitis
halfcycle
hanlawhile
heterotropia
high sensibility tester
hoon
ice thrust
inner-bark borer
insistency
integrated programming environment
ketocaine
Kouilou, Rég. du
lake inlet
lateralisation
leak finding
let me
lipofibromatosis
loess-like loam
low yield per mu
masking film
MCA (maximum credible accident)
media necrosis
methylpiperidinopyrazole
microreactor activity
mid-mounted mower
moral framework
nanoswitches
nonperpendicularity
nucleophilic gene
observable vector
oratosquilla fabricii
over-exerted
Pandaceae
paper-grade talc
passive transport
phon(o)-
Piseco
polychrones
prefix expression
primary high explosive
pustuloulcerating
Puyehue, Vol.
recuperation heat
ren lobatus
rotary scanning spectroscope
Rupert Brooke
seed longevity
serum prothrombin
served as
sighting telescope
smelt up
solar absorption refrigerating machine
symmetrize
tackle purchase
tend-toward
tetramates
Tinia
transfer standard
tunica albuginea corporis spongiosi penis
UNIF (uniformity)
upward-stroke
urkel
viscotiol
wash-water
water in oil test
water-immiscible
well-tanned
young tableau