时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天我们要学的词组是hot seat。 Hot seat在美国俚语里指处死刑用的电椅。Hot seat也指困窘的处境,尴尬的局面。比如公司连续亏损,总裁的压力很大, "The CEO found himself in the hot seat after another bad quarter."


还比如美国副总统切尼的前办公厅主任Lewis Libby被控在中情局特工身份泄露案的调查过程中撒谎。 法院开庭审理Lewis Libby一案的时候,许多政府要人不得不出庭回答问题,其中许多人处境尴尬, "Many will be on the hot seat during the trial." 今天我们学习的词组是hot seat ...



学英语单词
a got-up affair
aglycaemia
apotheosises
audio visual instruction technique
Balatonszabadi
bestiolina sinica
bite ... nails
blade radius
bloodless victory
Bodyke
bubble trap
Burbūr
burner setting
caveat subscriptor
character-types
cliffy
co-ax
cockpit panel
cold air drying
combed vein
cracking temperature of green pellet
damping the bass
diff-merge ui broker service
difference potentiometer
diving simulator
does to
dwelles
edge-perforated card
effective screening area
energy-constant
facioauriculovertebral
fancies that
fanglomerates
ferrum process
floridities
foliage pinna
for-money
glucocerebroside
halides
healing front
hybrid arrested translation
hyperexcitement
i-weschen
incorrect
Indian-wrestling
jackwagons
kalams
konovsky
law of geometric proportion
lewatit dn
like-kind exchange
line blanking period
linen-tape
manifold fugue
Memaliai
mene maculata
micropyrenic
mobilux
multidisciplinary approach
N-amidino phosphokinase
negative acceleration motion
new test
nim trees
numerius
nvp
oil gas ratio
once-unthinkable
overlend situation
Palazzo Adriano
Pavlov pouch
pitot bomb
poetastry
potassium methylsulfate
precombustion chamber type diesel
prenatal syphilis
primary deviance
production verification test
provideth
resource-constrained condition
rough washer
Saanichton
scatered radiation
seecatch
semi automatic system
sicyon
single cotton-covered
sorter-reader
stove bottom
Stygocaridacea
suppleness
Tekoa, Mt.
terminal pressure
two-by-two rib fabric
underwater acoustic positioning
ventral stolon
Verkhniy Yenisey
victimizers
wagon box drier
warm black tone
whatshername
whore-master
wirsum