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 slut
Alliance for Progress
artificial duct
asymptotic slope
beldame
bid-price
bierstekers
blank map
Briss
catheretic
cathodic protection automatically controlled
causeymakers
cet. par.
chilauni
Coffeen Lake
compost grinder
Conia.
cooled-air circulation refrigeration machine
crystal sender
denalis
dibenzyltin dibromide
earth filtering
epoxy-amine resin
financial services sector
Fluvoxaminum
FSBO
fuel-savings
gadolinites
gosther
hard to get
hide your light under a bushel
high-centre
hokiangas
hopper freight car
Humbauville
if push comes to shove
integral ring
isdn digital subscriber line
Kichma
larval molting
lime arsenate
lineshaft
loovesum
m mode ultrasonic scanning
mass extinction coefficient
Mead, Margaret
medullary plate (or neural plate)
metal halide
metauranopilite
microsporosis capitis
My Quang
nonelement
oceanic bonitoes
office of prime minister and cabinet
Olintepeque
outline bar
palaeocon
phellodendron amurenses
piezoelectric driver
pillar crane
plasterable
political agenda
polyp of rectum
polyphenylene sulfide composite
priscillians
pullig
quadrumana
records service firing
rocker keel
roof structure to falls
rotating coupler
Rotava
salsaed
sindony
sisso
sodium metazirconate
speedometer main shaft
squeakless
stereocamera
stiklestad
studio floor
subgalea
subsurface trickle irrigation
superparts
supervacaneousness
television tape
text library
the fine print
the presence or absence of anthocyanin pigments
the sweets and bitters of life
thrust lift nozzle
time trial
unilateral hermaph-roditism
uniprocessor system
unrestless
value number
vertical phasing
vibration regulation law
wastoid
water bone infection
xestia csoevarii
yolk sphere