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
Alzaga
ambocyte
Amibarson
angei(o)-
Angularia
antimicrobial agents
ASPHYX
athletic sport
B'sequence
Blercourt
Boece
Boston brahmin
brendas
bus tenure
chemiground wood pulp
Chess, River
Chiworeka
common turnip
concealed weapon
concrete arch dam
connecticut rivers
differential grinding
dimethylol ethylene urea resin
direct damage
dynamogranite
electric plaster-bandage shear
equilibrium establishment
expressible oil
extra-specials
feathers
fertitta
Fortulon
forward search for block (sequence) number
fraction stroke
free standing caisson
freight shed
gilberd
heat inactivation (of enzyme)
high weir spiral classifier
initial start - up
innocent purchase
isaconitine
January thaw
kukkersite
ladder circuit
laryngoroentgenography
lb-
lungzhouensis
masses of people
medullo-puncture needle
modern container terminal
molddrying
Muslimist
nonresiduary
Ohlstadt
Orce, Sa.de
order of aggregation
origin of lunar surface
paddy paw
pesahs
plasmotropic
polyphenylalanine
primary tectonite
qualified
religious rituals
restauranteer
rhinocerebral
satellite orbital altitude
scrag
Seoseong-ni
sequence of tests
sequence timer
shallow furrow
shipping sector
Singhbonga
slug ft
smoke stack
spaceside
stacked section
staurolite cyanite
stephen girards
take the monkey off someone's back
tattooists
thalfine
thickness line
to return
track insulation
trash cans
trogs
tryptase
Tuberculum mentale
tunnel wall interference
unbefriended
undevotedly
unspeakings
usnea longissima
vinylmethylketone
wet board machine
whizzbang
wireless access network
witcher
Zevenaar