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
acanthae
adaptive tree-walk protocol
alphahypophamine
amalgam reduction
arcturuss
arcus dentalis maxillaris
b-belt
bettleheim
big day
Bjorkfors
blossom bud
boron taste
bridge motor
CADV
Caramel, R.
cherry-like hemorrhoids
clematis henryi oliv.
conscious action
continuity promotion
crumbed
de-tune
deferred equity
deheating
delay payment
deportates
des (draft environmental statement)
destabilise
diamondback terrapin
dianhydro-gitoxigenin
discharge jetties
docksteps
dog's-tail
doped single crystal
emission spectrochemical analysis
eritel
european laboratory for nuclear research
evacuation control vessel
execution routine
FAQ archive mail server
feed-back ratio
flash vaporization equilibrium
fossula
Four Horsemen
FROF
fun and games
fused-junction diode
Germanicus Julius Caesar
go to somebody
gravure plate making
gunawan
hectolitres
hehehehe
high frequency spark gap oscillator
holtonite
inamil
incoherent ideation
inhomogeneous reaction
kenford
Knight of Pythias
lamp current
Lecythidaceae
liberations
lightsomeness
low pressure bulb
make and break shock
Maklaki
moldavite
monetary target
National Communications System
negatively charged
nervi occipitalis major
nitzschia sigma
noncompromising
prenatal enamel
privitate
quasi-periodicity
raised edge rubber belt
regio facies brachialis anterior
retioblastoma
rockwork
rope yarns
seabourn
secondary component
seven seass
shaker sort program
soft-foot
Spy Hill
stalactitical
standard items recosted
steady-state behaviour
steatadenoma
suffraginis
supersonictweeter
switching lag
thrust construction
treelets
uluderes
uncasville
virgin screwdrivers
wash your hands
wrecking master
written verdict