时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2013(十月)


英语课

 1. Singer Chris Brown has been arrested in the nation's capital. Police say Brown and another man are charged with felony assault following a fight outside the W Hotel. The two are being held in police custody 1 until tomorrow.


2. A Chinese immigrant has been arrested on five counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children. The family was stabbed with a kitchen knife in their Brooklyn home, where the suspect had been staying.
3. Legendary 2 rock star Lou Reed has died at 71. He passed away at his home of an ailment 3 related to a recent liver transplant. Reed influenced generations of musicians as leader of the Velvet 4 Underground and remained a vital solo performer for decades. 
4. Michael Jackson fans gathered in cities around the world to take part in a simultaneous international dance to his hit "Thriller 5." The annual event raises money for local charities.

1 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
2 legendary
adj.传奇(中)的,闻名遐迩的;n.传奇(文学)
  • Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
  • Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。
3 ailment
n.疾病,小病
  • I don't have even the slightest ailment.我什么毛病也没有。
  • He got timely treatment for his ailment.他的病得到了及时治疗。
4 velvet
n.丝绒,天鹅绒;adj.丝绒制的,柔软的
  • This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
  • The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。
5 thriller
n.惊险片,恐怖片
  • He began by writing a thriller.That book sold a million copies.他是写惊险小说起家的。那本书卖了一百万册。
  • I always take a thriller to read on the train.我乘火车时,总带一本惊险小说看。
学英语单词
a position of eminence
anonaceous
artesian well capacity
aulavik national park
austenitic alloy steel
automobile sling
availability in market supplies
black caucus, Black Caucus
cake cutter
Castleisland
cement in barrels
CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile
cineoles
closed map
co-domestication
compensating side unbalance mass
condensate recirculating water pipe
consider someone as mud
Crinum latifolium
cuajani
current transmission
desight
destrayt
dialogous
disazo compound
distance formula
disturbance term
document imaging
earth simulator
economic aspect
eibling
EIRP
electro-hardening
espino
esurial
factory invoice
fiber forming property
field stucture picture
find fault in
folkcraft
head-injury
Heldergem
helical reinforcement
herderian
hide cellar
Hogarth, Mt.
hot cathode ionization gauge
hotelkeepers
hydrophobic interaction chromatography
hystrix cristat
immunolabeling
in one's absence
inappositeness
international weber
invocation procedure
ionic structure
jacobitical
jet sheet
lesser arterial circle
loganairs
loosdrecht
lycorma delicatula white
mass bred
megabits per second
metallic hollow self-energizing O-rings
mug shots
operation detail additional description
orientation nozzle
oversquare
percent coarser
Pevisone
phyllosperm
picturephone set
prokaolin
protests
quasi-elastic rock
roller breaker
ruysches
satellite to satellite data transfer
setup procedure
shazad
size distribution of soil particles
smartwool
station call
steering arms
Steingrimsfjardharheidhi
stepless planing boat
strigoi
sulfadiazin
teejoint
totta rufercorna
triangulation reconnaissance
trigram substitution
tunica propria corii
type of loading
under duress
unloading cost
unreconfigurable
wsa
yazd
Yugonostalgia
zizyphus spinosus hu