时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十一)月


英语课

1.Black Friday has arrived with shoppers across the country up thoroughly 1 this morning in search of holiday bargains. With the economy still struggling, many analysts 2 expect retail 3 sales to be about flat compared to last year.


2.Overseas stocks are taking a hit as investors 4 are skittish 5 about Dubai's debt problems. The news has triggered fears of a wave of heavy losses at banks that could hinder a global economic recovery.


3.The couple who crashed an exclusive state dinner at the White House the other night are aspiring 6 reality TV stars. The camera crew connected to Bravo's upcoming The Real Housewives of DC will still mean the couple getting ready for the event in an apparent audition 7.


4.It's moving day for this pair of giant pandas. The pandas are being flown from China to an Australian zoo where will be the only giant pandas in the southern hemisphere.



1 thoroughly
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
2 analysts
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
3 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
4 investors
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
5 skittish
adj.易激动的,轻佻的
  • She gets very skittish when her boy-friend is around.她男朋友在场时,她就显得格外轻佻。
  • I won't have my son associating with skittish girls.我不准我的儿子与轻佻的女孩交往。
6 aspiring
adj.有志气的;有抱负的;高耸的v.渴望;追求
  • Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
  • He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句
7 audition
n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)
  • I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音,可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
  • At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初,他们说他太小,但后来他们叫他去试听。
学英语单词
ACANTHOCEPHALLA
active decoy
ADM (automatic drafting machine)
agrarian society
alisaunder
amound
angle dekko
anodizing treatment
antimolecule
artwatches
ask no odds of
beam-lead integrated circuit
Berivoj
Biyala
black-body temperature
boundary-based representation
bouquet reinsurance treaty
cable boring tool
Cagney and Lacey
candify
Carbathione
cariporide
Cinnamomum verum
circularizers
circumstantionate
claim to be
coagulum
compost-makings
constant strain tetrahedron
construction project management
cw diode laser
decorative fabric
depucelates
dyvise
eisengymnite
existing computer system
frontal contour
gangrenous inflammation
gemologist
grand totals for columns
Guyanese
Hadejia
hallucinatory effect
Harlow
hazy picture
heat damage
heitler unit
high-energy-rate forming
homeliest
iliac plexus
inurled
isonicid
itt (international telegraph and telephone corporation)
Khonj
leave sb to their own devices
locustella lanceolata lanceolata
Manitowaning
minkuyu
mitogenic radiation
musophobia
neovascularization
net literacy
nonchanged
not that there's anything wrong with that
oleo oils
ombrophilous plant
pep squads
perspicuous
postsynaptic portion
precipitation hardening type magnet
preventable accident
prevention and intervention
protocolin
quaternary eutectic alloy
ramrodded
run command
Schottky guard-ring transistor
second childhood
segment size
sheet it home to sb
side placement method
slug flow
spermatocyte(SMC)
spiritual court
spring adjuster
staggard
swonken
Syrmaticus reevesii
thick tea
Threne dark blue
tifaifai
timed game
tollen's aldehydes test
tragicas
typical product
un-Islamic
undamaged recovery
up-state
waterproof cement
which one
working the broken
zinky