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
-kind
acid-resistant sheet material
actualizers
alternate exception action
Ampanihy
Arablinskiy
ariamnes cylindrogaster
armature keeper
Atlantic pomfret
auxiliary device
be enamored with
bechamel-sauce
bring someone into disrepute disrepute on something
brushless machine
Calandagan I.
Cameroon franc
camouflage-print
cartellino
coil type pan
cold roll
cucinas
deminex
durangites
escape pathlength of cosmic rays
federal communication act
Ferula bungeana
first vein
fission-product activity
flanged port
fluted bulkhead
Fricke dosimeter
functional parallelism
gas forming
gripe about
hand-operated vertical hydraulic press
heatley
high impact
historicizations
infrared-sensing
intermediate trend
international rubber hardness degree test
interstitial gas flow
isoporous ion exchange resin
Kaja, Hill
Kaneh, Rūd-e
komlans
long-nosed potoroo
love-lies-bleeding
make no pretence with
management data
microcircular technique
microprogrammed compiler
Mokhovaya, Gora
motorblower
NCITS
non-tangential crossbedding
nondamageable
nonstudying
occursion
ocean bonito
operation manner
overkeeping
pergesa actea
pixels
plagens
playtoy
policy scientist
presentation time stamp
promotion terminology
prydain
reingests
relief paint
retinyl
saudias
scale blower
seasonal weight
self-cleaaing of water
self-digestions
septorial blight of tomato
single-leg manometer
sloping bottom tank
smorg asbord
sulfide core
sun pan
swineries
tableware detergent
tangential wheel
teapotlike
tectonic activization
tendinea inscriptio
thermal fission yield
three-terminal system
tidier-up
to twat
toones
trachyspermum scaberulum(franch.)wolff
trainmen
tripe cambered aerofoil
uncompetitive
unconquering
Villaharta
Young's Schutz's