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
ACL - access control list
affect adjective checklist
Arthroascus
auxiliary plane of symmetry
blackwater r.
bring ... forward
butterfly-nut
Caprivi Reg.
carboned
cell type tube
collapsible containers
contra vat
Cyperus michelianus
cypraea eglantina
deflection machanism
defruiter equipment
detecting power
determinands
dog's letter
draw shot
earthed aerial
ectosarcs
eisen
electives
encl.
enter into commitment
essential bargaining problem
fargas
fifteenthly
fore distance indicator
formicans stupor
freely falling body
Fubini's theorem
Giglio Island
grocery bags
guideboat
Gómez Rendón
have dealing with
hitch wheel
hongkelin
hyperexcitement
ill health
imitative synkinesia
impact matrix
internal machine representation
karageorge
kolmogorov turbulence
labour-intensive
laccose
Madsenia
manual hoisting
microamp
mile-high club
Mono S cation exchanger
mumak
Muslimophile
niccin'
Nodapton
non loaded cable
noninsured
oil-firing boiler
palmar metacarpal artery (or large metacarpal artery)
parted pattern
pastureland water conservancy
pelletizing effect
polluting oil
prize ring
pteridium esculentums
rate of bearing variation
reappareled
rear-unloading vehicle
reciprocal spectrum
regiones plantares digitorum pedis
reset attachment
Rhipidistians
rock maple
Rubus hypargyrus
salve a sore
sea canal
sherwood andersons
slot(ting)
snorkel exhaust valve
sopental
sovereign status
squamous carcinoma of larynx
steepest descent method
stress-strain-history relation
surface-consistent static correction
teal oil
termination of procedure
theory-practice
three misthread defense
to bargain
total outflow
tromp and stomp
undog
up-bow
upper space law
usain
utilization time
xystos
zinc hydrosulfite (zinc dithionite)