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
6-hydroxyfibraurin
Adinandra macrosepala
albergues
analytic geometry of space
auxiliary entrance
Ayer Brani, Tk.
Baathist
back-bearing
balance agitator
Basil II
biodet
butt resistance welding
buttiler
Canada East
circleout
clottiness
constant displacement shaker
containing mark
couldn't think
customer behaviour
depalmitoylations
Dercum's disease
die-head rivet
dressed poultry
Duchenne-Aran disease
emergency closure
equalization of profit rates on capital
erroneous tendency
erysipelas perstans
exocentrus immaculatus
experimental design work
export promotion policy
flexographic ink
fluctuous
foreign-controlleds
full pink
gamma field
give someone a taste of
gunnery problem
health agency
helper factor
high performance data space
honey-blonde
Humboldt Mountains
Indo-Pacific faunal region
ischiosacral arch
janitoring
life test
lost on sale
lower limit of liquid state
lymphopoieses
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Cherubini
maturs
mci mail
melanocyte-stimulating hormone regulatory hormone
membranae
merchantable quality
method of internal addition
Michelia opipara
Miramar, Can.
nanometer material science
northern monkey
numen
open piling
oversaving theory of business cycle
Oxfordesque
pop-singer
positioning of cable stopper
precentral area
preferred numbers
private accident insurance
protocolin
range at present position
realestate
red market
reeft
remote bootstrap
renal sinus lipomatosis
representative governments
right hand side tool
screw-pitch gauge
Seqenenre
shallow shell
single-pass prism dosimeter
specific density table
sphaleron
spiritish
spreadee
stainless steel wool
summit phenomenon
tail formation
tale bearers
tank turret casting
taper-set
tela submucosa (pharyngis)
territory mapping method
trailing load
Tween-81
unevocative
Wheel-drag
Whitesail L.