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
abaxonal
Abderhalden-Fauser reaction
abort of the mission
acid carbonate
alauksts l.
alignment peg
analogue technique
Anisotropic diffusion
aspartate transcarbanylase
B.Eng.,B.Engr.
bargmann-fock state
blue flsh oil
Bobonaza, R.
bozo bin
cabinet panel distribution board
Cheapside
chowrie
chrome plated PVC flexible hose
closed type square
coke drum
cold resonance
concolumn
contour size
cop shop
d-2 component digital vtr
deep type bucket
depredator
diatomaceous
dismast
duledges
earl's
emprove
epidemicities
fail-safe test
flare groove weld
formyloxaluric acid
gallium arsenide solar cell
Gamba Group
genus parascalopss
great caerebral vein
hendecaploidy
high-carb
homageable
infant formula
irrelevance, irrelevancies
Kodjari
Koksan-gun
L-AP4
large-scale test
late-night
Layar, Tg.
letificant
magnetite spinellite
Makhuwa
monilasis
myra biconica
newsweeklies
nondivine
nonflammable material
off center plan position indicator
on-line analyser
one-sided asymmetric information
Oostermeer
population coefficient of determination
positive actuation
poster cloth
precision code
procentrioles
proximizable
radiotransmitte
rake cylinder
rassadorn
rate of explosion
reaming stone
reticular fibers
revised version
route forecast (rofor)
rug-net
Saxonist
selengut-goertzel method
short-circuit power
simple cystoma
single speed
stenosophrops tuberculata
stylohyoideus
Subway Alumni
supertonic triad
synechocystis aquatilis
the green room
total suspended solid
transient memory
transportation corridor
tree-farmer
uncorrected universal time
unloading installation
unticking
upon his word of honour
Utting am Ammersee
waterspouts
wort culture-medium
xyridaceous
Yahya Kheyl