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
a-scoff
adequate disclosure
anesthesia of buccal nerve
babble-word
beharrell
billing increment
biomineralization
blocks off
body mass index
bogie tyre wheel
capillary pressure head
carnelians
cavern arch
central control and operate panel
cinctus
conglomerate tubercle of choroid
coordination with
coracias garruluss
cornermen
cytomixis
delta ray counting
Eduardine
Egyptian monetary unit
ether acid ester
exhibitionary
fall flat on one's ass
family Chlorophthalmidae
filled deposit
fillet(corner)
firm hand
foine
geognosts
get one's whack
Great Glen
harmonium
holding time setter
hot styrene rubber
in the space
infraacoustic
inner control limit
intellectualist
jali
joslin
jumping
Korčula, Otok
krackers
La Misa
left-half side production
liberalness
light equipment
lock butt joint
luxurious
marginal producer
Maxwell's equations
michelangeloes
milllion
monolithic IC
Moroneia
muck spreader
muon detection
not worth a hill of beans
on the tongues of men
organogenous sediment
oxetanocin-A
paracrystal
passenger train hours
petered out
polished dressing
politicalness
prereviews
processionals
propulsive machinery
radially varying inflow
regulator bolt
Saaremaa
sensible heat factor
Seward's Folly
sinner
slice and dice
slit gage
solid strut
stand the racket
target tube
telereceiver
temporary stage
tetrasomaty
thermal boring
thermons
through cut
thymoprivous
transfer-in box
tropophyte
tube-uranium interface
twiblade
unchaplained
unstratified drift
usyn
wade across
walled gardens
watertightness
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