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 ...



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ad calendas Graecas
all position pipeline automatic arc welding
allesandra
analog module
astrogenesis
axial aberration
beam house
bend in the channel
black drawing
blastomycin
bottle baby
brass coating
broad-brushes
chamfer relief angle
change-round
composite group
conduct an examination
conjugate acid base pair
convolution mask
Cospicua
costies
demagnetized state
determination of carbon monoxide
disare
double layer filter
dry-lot finishing
encapsulated fuel unit
essoign
feisting
fertilization of ovum
field-free
floriani
fluorescent scale
fore head spring
fundamental turnaround
fuseways
ganoderma multiplicatum
genus porphyrios
genus sabbatias
girt
give a look in
global fault
haikus
head butted
heterocomplexation
hypostratotypes
initial vacuum
internal modification
interrupt flipflop
ion line
Jauiac
keynard
Kinsele
kirschke
laberinto
Las Rosas, I.
ljiljana
lymphaticus
Mor'ye
mowlem
natural conservation
on or before
passing shot
PESP
polygon convex decomposition
postural test of extremities
pressed
pulverised
rail saw
rate-grown
renounceth
saponaceus
semiactive
shaki
skaffie
slip expansion joint
smarteth
sneeringly
soak in lime
spaaks
space network polymer
stalagmon
steel high carbon
stigmarias
sub licence
subunion
technical solution
telecontrol interface
Tepelenës, Rrethi i
thiodiglycolic anhydride
trading-off resources
trasal glands
Trillium sessile
triurid
unpropitiousness
wearing character
weather condition factor
westmeaths
whistlingly
who died and made you boss
wilbur cross
wise up to