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
Abel fuse
adjustment for length of stroke
airfoil parachute
american union
aminosometradine
antitamper
apex cornu posteerioris
atonalistic
Autlan
autogenous healing
axle weight detector
barium bioxalate
Breiholz
brimmy
brittle transition temperature
cellana stearnsii
corioliss
Courrendlin
crab oil
D phase
demi-pensions
difference-operator table
dispensing
dyinger
endosalpingoma
envelope star
Ethavex
ex-banker
flame breaking
fore-and-aft trim
frossard
gallsome
genus Hunnemania
grate area
Hitchens's razor
hourly growth rate
hydrogen fueled vehicle
integratives
isotope enriched material
isozeaxanthin
job service matching system
keep watch and ward over
keszegs
Kronig isthmus
layont
liver bud
Livφ Bredning
longitudinal quadrupole
ma-me
macroinfaunal
marie stopess
mechanical shock
memory-reference instruction
methyl-thiohydantoin
migrating phlebitis
mutual system
neurosecretory nerve endings
nioxime
normal frame
Odontocidium
oligocardia
Parmentiera
path generation
phaiozems
Polygonum campanulatum
positive-displacement supercharger
pressurized gas flow ionization chamber
prices for specialization and cooperation
principle of permanent residence
raptors
refused landing
response curve
round-wire
safe circuit
safety decision rule
sagittal
Sainte-Justine-de-Newton
scrub jay
selectors(controls)
semigroup
Serolidae
shaffler
shooting brake
spinipetal
Spiraea yunnanensis
steaming point
sterilizees
subepithelial
subsellate
thalfine
thin-film resistors
three heading system
triform missile
tumorous mass
undistributed income
unenterpen
vinys
wailful
white - collar job
wreckage company
Xylorrhiza
yichud