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
administrative policy manual
air transport group
Alencon lace
Amlia Knoll
attained pose
band crossing
Bolungarvik
brownout proof
BSD licenses
calcophylic
Cassirer
castroisms
cesser of hire or off-hire clause
chlorodimethylarsine
colorfulness of a perceived color
comes out of
configure settings
Cornish hedge
cost-improvements
cruciate sulcus (or cruciate fissure)
cupriferous
distomus
drum worm wheel
electric-heated hot-bed
element pair
estradiol patch
evanescent voltage
evasion time
experiment with clay model
family Burseraceae
floating gantry
frame television video recording
Gaussian variable
get the monkey off one's back
hack writer
have a lead of
high pressure gas vessel
hoe into
humanitian
Hylodesmum
icsf
in seven-league d boots
incompetent beds
index contour
inductionless
jazerra
joads
jobst
kokoshniki
Kondroarsenite
lobiped
methylglyoxal bis
montfaucon
Mpanganya
mullican
multizone system
murly
onetime
optical solutions
OSPF
osteochondroma
outside casing liner
outward documentary bill
panel link tv out interface
phthalin
pilot flame
PJT
placental sinus
pouring rain
pre-revolutionary
pressure-volume relationship
protection against insects
psychological state
pug mill type mixer
purple-fish
regular ship
Reilly
roller crusher conditioner
salpingid
Saxonise
semi-combed yarn
semigraphic annunciator
sensitometric wedge
sewaging
sini powder
spiral spur gear
standardized format
stockage objective
stowage on deck
support contour
support programme
Sylviinae
takuya
Tax-evaders
transmit direction
treasury remittance ledger
trisomic inheritance
United Nations Information Center
Valle San José
vestigial structure
virus busting
water tempering