时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:cnn2009年(十二)月


英语课

Fridays are awesome 1, even when it is our last one of this semester. I am Carl Azuz, and you are tuned 2 in the CNN Student News. First up today, a quick check of our headlines.


Strike is off, the judge says plans for a walkout by a British Airway's Cabin Crew cannot happen. As we reported yesterday, this strike which would have last through the holidays could have effected a million passengers’ holiday travel plans. But the judge has blocked it from happening. Now the airline says it hopes the Cabin Crews Labor 3 Union would take some time to think about its next steps. The union representatives say this dispute is not over and unless the two sides can come to a solution, they could vote to strike again, but after Christmas.


Running out of time, the warning from Secretary of State Hilary Clinton yesterday to the attendees at a global climate conference. This meeting is being aimed at coming up with a climate change agreement. The critics say that as of Thursday, there had been little if any progress. The talks seem to hit a sort of standstill yesterday, leaving the chances of making a deal before the summit ends today in question. To get the latest on whether or not they did make that agreement, head to CNN.com and that is also where you can check up on the debate over healthcare reform.


Right now, the debate is fierce, the version of the bill being considered by the US Senate is getting criticism from Republicans, Democrats 4 and even an important labor group. President Obama is urging Senators to accept the compromise and pass it. But even if they do, it would still have to be combined with the House version and then both the House and Senate would have to approve that final bill.



1 awesome
adj.令人惊叹的,难得吓人的,很好的
  • The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
2 tuned
adj.调谐的,已调谐的v.调音( tune的过去式和过去分词 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
  • The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味,老少皆宜。
  • The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
4 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》
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学英语单词
acellular vaccine
adelaide
ar ratawi (ratawi)
arborolatries
archecenra
arge tsunekii
assentive
axis of momentum
Bailet's sign
Band of Hope
base-level epoch
be slow on the uptake
booty bumps
catalytic combustion system
centimetre wave
charge transfer interaction
Chheuteal
Chibana
colorer hue
control file adapter
conventional gate-level simulation
Corvus frugilegus
cryolite bath
curably
cyclconic thunderstorm
Damanhūr Shubrā
defiants
dematteis
department of defense network
die channel
doubly linked circular list
earnings records
electrolytic production of magnesium
enlarged-scale
ester linkage
evaporating method
excommunicatest
expended appropriation
face miller
fineview
flumorph
guilloux
Hadsel mill
half-darks
heavy oil partial oxidation process
insect-catching leaf
internal transaction
inventrice
irisxanthone
itascas
journs
ketler
lake pigments
large-capacity
light-foodedness
nominal defendant
nondiscriminator
obligee in the mainterance
offshore berth
one-digit array
pen-lights
persing
petite yeast
pheneticillin
polynomial-time church-turing thesis
pop-tart
querier
rack type gear shaving cutter
radiate fibers
razzling
reconvence
red pill
roecliffe
running water level
Saale
service object
silent fan
single inlet impeller
skyness
sociodemographic
Stillwater County
stoker elevator conveyer
stratostat
surrenderingly
survey at stop
sxl
tenderance
timber groin
tool vendor
trelnarizine
trunk call
tuberculous mediastinal lymphnodes
tutorial subsystem
two-row velocity-stage
unitary tangent bundle
unshrank
uricogenesis
V-ring commutator
warliker
Western Electric
witch-huntings
zootechnics