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
ac-130s
acoustic surface waves
actual reflux
airproof material
Amitostigma amplexifolium
arborizing
arroyos
auxiliary lighting
barrier-nurse
barthelsson
bawdsey
beam of uniform section
berelson
bleached-blonde
boy cunt
bumbard
butter clam
carotins
Cherry Spring
circular pipe
composite cable
conditional package
Corydalis tenuipes
crotalarias
cry out for sth
customs control
deponent verb
digital differential and digital display alarm
distinguish fact from fiction
DNA pitch
dot metrix
drooping voltage generator
ecopolitics
electric mosquito killer
enprisons
environmental impact study
fine salt
flanged tube
frostproof closet
fulmars
geostrophic wind velocity
guerinoes
Hausstock
housepaints
humourism
Hutchinson-Gilford disease
hydrological condition
if you love someone, set them free
Imferdex
instantaneous vibration displacement
Jacqueline Cochran
kelly filter press
Lapaz
lift thrust
local prosecuting attorney
loose-jowled
lotebush
macrohemodynamic
magnetic image storage medium
Manaravolo
marginal blepharitis
Marmelos, R.dos
micruroides euryxanthuss
mill drying
myeloid series
nicebecetur
nomadologists
non-zero-sum twoperson game
nonold
Novonidazol
peta-joules
phytoparasites
Pilophyllum
pink-tipped
pitchforklike
Poolie
pre-written
Profeta's law
pull-chain
ray intercept curve
Salici
Schmalhausenia
sciatic scoliosis
scleromata
second-level index block
skywave trouble
smooth over
soft cats iron
souray
spider leg
start-up transformer
steam finish
theoretical chemistry
trading mechanics
true contact angle
uncombine
unequipped with tanks
Vanda coerulea
vermiculite-gypsum plaster
viridans streptococci
wedging bit
Yermolino