时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2013(一月)


英语课

 1. They were up late on the phone, and Vice 1 President Joe Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell are expected to keep talking to avoid automatic tax increases and budget cuts set to go into effect with the New Year. But for now Republicans and Democrats 2 are still at an impasse 3.


 
2. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is at a New York hospital being treated for a blood clot 4. Doctors aren't saying where in her body it is, but Clinton developed the clot after sustaining a concussion 5 from a fall at home earlier this month.
 
3. Nine people are dead after a tour bus crashed on a rural highway in Oregon. The bus left the snow- and ice-covered interstate, crashing through a guardrail and going 100 feet down an embankment.
 
4. Hundreds of believers visited a market in Mexico City Sunday to buy good luck charms to bring fortune, love, and health in 2013. People latched 6 onto toy lambs, candles and red or yellow underwear in hopes of attracting good fortune.

1 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
2 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 impasse
n.僵局;死路
  • The government had reached an impasse.政府陷入绝境。
  • Negotiations seemed to have reached an impasse.谈判似乎已经陷入僵局。
4 clot
n.凝块;v.使凝成块
  • Platelets are one of the components required to make blood clot.血小板是血液凝固的必须成分之一。
  • The patient's blood refused to clot.病人的血液无法凝结。
5 concussion
n.脑震荡;震动
  • He was carried off the field with slight concussion.他因轻微脑震荡给抬离了现场。
  • She suffers from brain concussion.她得了脑震荡。
6 latched
v.理解( latch的过去式和过去分词 );纠缠;用碰锁锁上(门等);附着(在某物上)
  • The government have latched onto environmental issues to win votes. 政府已开始大谈环境问题以争取选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He latched onto us and we couldn't get rid of him. 他缠着我们,甩也甩不掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
ablins
acinaces
African Queen
agency liability
alexander garden
alkarsin
anti-stray-current electric detonator
archdeaconry
artificial cardiac pacemaker
autobalancing
beaminstability
belfair
big-play
Bisayan Islands, Bisayas
Bob Marley
bobacs
BPCP
brulliement
business paper
cable-cars
cashless society
catalytic ozone converter
Catch-Up Contribution
cohesion coefficient
diisopropyl perdicarbonate
dimensional method
dithiocarbonates
enloplatin
flabbergastering
flameworker
flightelevator
flowchart generator
foreappointment
four-squares
free rappel
glume tenacity
gobiopsis arenaria
Gromakalim
haemocytoblast
halotrichine
hos-pital
how about you
Huang Hua
incisurae cartilaginis meatus acustici externi
independent means
indirect search
Jingzhou
jolloped
jtc1/sc24
kirkeby
locking motion
lop off
malfolding
mechanical load
mesopelagic zone
methysergid
network driver interface
nonadditional
ntype
oncograph
origenes
paralepses
Pedicularis elliotii
peripalloside
photon bunching
plagioclase-arenite
plateau mesa
Plexus periarteriales
principal trade partners
propanoic acid anhydride
put the clocks forward
quartter
rather much
rattle traps
reflecting pools
registerers
regulating wheel
ressentiments
sampling synchronization pulse
Shibushi
showboaters
skoche
source listing file
steel concrete
stuff gown
submarine bulk cargo carrier
Suez,Isthmus of
sunspectrum
supervoltage radiotherapy
tapped down generator
teminal sinuses
tentacular fringe
three-D home TV
thrust cup
transpeptidases
trapt
triceratopss
tuff breccia
tympanomandibular
until you are blue in the face
vinyl chloride
Zator