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
-backed
allophytin
apomorphine bromomethylate
armeo
barge canal
be disgraced
beading machine
bell ringing transformator
best-actor
boiga irregularis
bottle hood
cash insurance
cast-resin bushing
cgrp
chuck on
Citrix Receiver
clerical support workers
cock-a-leekies
color video scope
corn stunt
cross-coupling
current-activity stack
dempsky
diadexis
diervilla sessilifolias
earbow
eighty-sixes
electro-gas welding machine
emery cylinder
enarmee
epicardial cooling
Esfandārān
ethnocentric approach
exanguinate
expidite
feather mite
frame-grabber
function subprogram
gasolin-engine direct driven machine
generator busbar assembly
genus diplotaxes
graduation in degrees
heracleum hemsleyanum diels
holloo
Hoorn Islands
hua ch'?ng t'ien hsia chih wu
img.
inclusion conjunctivitis
informalization
large-bore hose
lengthened coupling
Lonicera calcarata
Marmara Gölü
migrators
mint-sauce
Montgomery Ward
multiple chondrosarcoma
nonlanguages
nonvolatile memories
oil warm-up torch
one year budget
open call
out board
outgrabes
pallet container
paren-
piezoelectrical
prespermatogonia
reconstructive phase transition
Red Sea
reflec
remittance overseas
reversed steel
rock sand
rose-petal
rugby boots
scandalous
schleidens
scsrsistsesrsisosns-s
sevenpenny nail
short-lapped placket
slump
split fitting
sthene
stream analysis
sub-stage
subsea release cementing system
sugar mercaptal
synchiropus delandi
tahasil
techniquewise
termino-terminal anastomosis
the aftermath
us index
vacciaationr varicella
vacuum-tube characteristic
virtual private wire service
volumized
water bearing bed
wavy finish
weatherpeople
wifed