时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:世界各地新闻集锦


英语课
  The US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to continue collecting data on US phone calls.
 
  Lawmakers rejected the amendment 1 that would have blocked funding for the National Security Agency's program, which gathers details of every call made by or to a US phone.
 
  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is Florida Republican Representative.
 
  "The yeahs (voting yes) are 205 and the nays 2 (voting no) are 217, the amendment is not adopted."
 
  Whilst critics say the proposal violates the public's rights, supporters of the amendment say the practice is essential to America's counter-terrorism efforts.
 
  They argue that the surveillance operations have been successful in thwarting 3 at least 50 insurgency 4 plots across 20 countries, including a dozen directed at the US.
 
  These NSA surveillance revelations were made public by former U.S. intelligence contractor 5, Edward Snowden, who's currently in Moscow's airport waiting for asylum 6 papers.

1 amendment
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
2 nays
n.反对票,投反对票者( nay的名词复数 )
  • The tally was two ayes and three nays. 投票结果是两票赞成,三票反对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The tally was three yeas and two nays, so the yeas have it. 投票结果是三票赞成两票反对,投赞成票者胜利。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3 thwarting
阻挠( thwart的现在分词 ); 使受挫折; 挫败; 横过
  • The republicans are trying to embarrass the president by thwarting his economic program. 共和党人企图通过阻挠总统的经济计划使其难堪。
  • There were too many men resisting his authority thwarting him. 下边对他这个长官心怀不服的,故意作对的,可多着哩。
4 insurgency
n.起义;暴动;叛变
  • And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国,动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
  • Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网
5 contractor
n.订约人,承包人,收缩肌
  • The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
  • The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样,有几分要看地势而定。
6 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
学英语单词
.xlv
abstract simplex
acoustic input
Africanization
air-terminal
alogism
ameboid blastodermic cell
anthranilic-n
be like a waxwork
beak welding
benzodiphenylene oxide
Blagoljub
block height
bloodspot
blucky
busy day
butt gauge
chipping bed
Chomolangma
codalltoin
compression-expansion refrigerator
contra-wound helix coupler
crop architecture
de-seed
decussatio fontinalis
Diefenbaker, L.
disavouches
double coil holder arrangement
dynamic precision
earthing device
epithelial-mesenchymal interaction
error in omission
exundancy
forward superstructure
frame timing
Freycinet, C.
frogtown
gas tetrode
gossberite
grid melter
ground-driven reel
gundown
helots
hen-and-chickens
heptadecenedicarboxylic acid
hide (or skin)
idioticons
inlance
interference loss
International Association of Seed Crushers
International Maritime Organization Clause
Iris forrestii
joint speculation
junksts
kibbler
Lambeth degree
location?based service
loyamycin
mailshot
manganese type electrode
miskas
Moorish style architecture
more-than cumulation
myelinated
Nicklaus, Jack
off-record loan
pechenga
Pedro Luro
play foul foully
policy of containment
portal crane
postdorsulum
preaugurate
prize-fightings
production of services
Puobli
pupil trained in the herbal garden
quadriplegia
red coral
relapsing erysipelas
revisals
roof-lines
shape-breakdown system
shoot his wad
silicono-
small fry
sphaerosiderite
strong object
surplus late crop
tariff premium
thermal profile
thirty pieces of silver
thixotropic behaviour
time-budgeting of purchases
tokoyama
triple condenser
uranium(iv) sulfide
URouLette
vahine
vegetative cell phase
vertical deflection circuit
yst.