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
address registor
alpha hinges
angular-motion
Arabled
atmospheric message
availability date
avoy
azat
balance for official financing
BETRO
bloodierly
blowlamp
bridge type feedback
buck up against
canongate
chosen-cipher text attack
compress manual page
consts
coordinate selector for data logging
copper-bearing
credit sale account
CTD cable winch
cucumber green mottle mosaic
decreasing phase
degrees Kelvin
dickey-bird
dyrosaurid
ecological stimulation
Egham
El Aricha
electric field pattern
electrotonometer
equilibrium fluctuations
FD2
fissochemistry
fovea costalis inferior
Gentiana heterostemon
genus lunarias
germanium (ge) absorption
green pea soups
hastyfully
heavy weight drill pipe
hydraulic actuation
inphant
insulating course
inverse number
Kavarskas
Kołacze
leaf analysis
light heartedly
longevo
mannotriose
mantle groove
maugre
mavericks
megaphoning
metabolizations
month of delivery
mortonagrion hirosei
movillas
multiple address instruction
Non-Convertible Currencies
number of documents
oxygen charging station
paper-shredder
pirating
pirolate
pool-table
power stroke
Power-efficiency
PPD of tuberculin
precise level leveling instrument
prefaceless
preordaining
pressureless infiltration fabrication
private ledger account
pulsed cavitation
quartz diorite porphyrite
raise the waters
reoccurred
rubberisation
screw retention
self-organization phenomenon
send receive teletypewriter
silk vines
springcup
starred glaze
tellicherry (thalassery)
temperate forest zones
thermalization cross section
Tingha
to make up
trade advertising
tree storage representation
troublish
Tubalcain
turret drill
tylopilus badiceps
weightless fluid
wgecs
year end audit