时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2012(二月)


英语课

 1. Violence continues in Syria. Activists 1 say more than 60 people have been killed today. Among those killed, two journalists who were in the besieged 2 city of Homs. Marie Colvin was an American. 


 
 
 
2. President Barack Obama is calling for an overhaul 3 of the corporate 4 tax system. He's asking to cut the current rate from 35 to 28 percent and eliminate dozens of subsidies 5 and loopholes. 
 
 
 
3. Federal prosecutors 6 are charging the superintendent 7 of a West Virginia mine with conspiracy 8 to defraud 9 the government. Gary May is now the highest ranking employee of Massey Energy to face prosecution 10 after a 2010 explosion killed 29 men.
 
 
 
4. A California judge says Lindsay Lohan is in the home stretch of her probation 11. The judge told the actress today she seems to be getting her life back on track. Lohan is scheduled to host "Saturday Night Live" in March.

1 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 besieged
包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender. 巴黎被围困了四个月后被迫投降。
  • The community besieged the newspaper with letters about its recent editorial. 公众纷纷来信对报社新近发表的社论提出诘问,弄得报社应接不暇。
3 overhaul
v./n.大修,仔细检查
  • Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
  • It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知,铁路系统需要大检修。
4 corporate
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
5 subsidies
n.补贴,津贴,补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )
  • European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
  • Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
7 superintendent
n.监督人,主管,总监;(英国)警务长
  • He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
  • He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。
8 conspiracy
n.阴谋,密谋,共谋
  • The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
  • He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
9 defraud
vt.欺骗,欺诈
  • He passed himself off as the managing director to defraud the bank.他假冒总经理的名义诈骗银行。
  • He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government.他卷入了这起欺骗政府的阴谋。
10 prosecution
n.起诉,告发,检举,执行,经营
  • The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
  • He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
11 probation
n.缓刑(期),(以观后效的)察看;试用(期)
  • The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱,而且将他缓刑察看一年。
  • His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后,他的工资增加了800元。
学英语单词
-ica
Achārjlihi
acute angioneurotic edema
aldosteronopenia
Amherst, Jeffrey
Ashikita
automatic control unit
barbican
baron georges cuviers
base stations
baulk
bendixen
bumper book
bundle up
Chergui, Aftoût ech
comb-footed spider
course surface
creative activity
cupola bessemer electric process
desargination
dielectrocardiogram
donning
Dresdenware
etherobacillin
Ethylsuccinate
family Haemulidae
file event
filtering media
flexural critical speed
food conversion factor
functorial
gob line
heat seat
Hemangiomatous
high-Q inductor
hoaxes
iguacu
Jimmy Cagney
jobbish
Khamar-Daban, Khrebet
kneifert
left atrial wall plication
Lippman fringes
liver-blood deficiency
Lochalsh
machens
map color atlas
maritime radio telephone
mechanical selector
milliweak
Milverton
Morrisby speed test
motion with variable velocity
multifurcates
multiple causation
Myctophidae
nin
non-cyclically
nonintervisible stations
NSWTG
Nyhem
object snap setting
on blast of stove
organosilanol
Paphlagonian
paralogical
pathological gambling
petroleum transport
photoelectric sextant
player's fatigue
pressure conduit
previous carry
process specification
Rödje
scoir
simulator time
single chip computer
sirohydrochlorin
slip on a banana skin
soil nutrient bioavailability
spot cash transactions
statutory investment
steaming machine
sub-spaces
sweat rug
tesselatas
thickness sensor
time served worker
twofold degeneracy
umbelluliferous
unprofligate
urophan
Valentigney
Vers-en-Montagne
what the what
witch-doctors
xal
y-current
yank out
Yellow River
zaki
zoysia tenuifolias