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
analysis by synthesis method
applied kinesiology for dance
atmospheric sea salt
atomic scattering coefficient
axiomatic method
bituminous distributor
blue eyed boys
cfcs
charged-particle resonance
chicagoland
churchyard cough
claisse
class conscious
closet queer
composite eyes
concussion mine
cotton machine
Coup.
creep bend test
daan
decimeter-wave triode
decodable code
dessiatine
Dimnah, Wādī
dodi
double aortic arches
dry-air sterilizer
effeminates
energy consuming
eye-waterings
fabrication cost
facility comparison
fianna fail
field horsetails
file data buffer
filinto
four-plus-one address instruction format
fur seal
gaberdines
galloping test
gauntness
genus Dictostylium
Hellenizes
HFR
hortic
hsinchu
insulinlike
inverted order
Japan.
jet control system
knife-fold
Lehmann,Lotte
libationer
linear- triangular element
lower auxiliary steam port
melvill
national institute of health (nih)
navigational warning
ninevehs
no significant change (nosig)
nutrient chemistry
Oppenheim
optical card
Organum spirale
out from
over order
overlond power
pileiform
plate pork
power hardening
prairie wolf
present value of income from investment
profit-loss breakeven point chart
return subsystem
rhumbs
road to Damascus
role schema
s.marshall
San Jerónimo
sea coals
sharpening stone
short-service
Short-term revolving letter
SHR (shrinkage)
Shwegon
side flight
six-notes to one
subzero
symmetric varistor
temps
thecodontians
tropic tide
tsujimoto
unwearable
upscaled
volcanic mudflow
vomiting following gastrointestinal operation
water bump effect
What are you going to wear today
white-crested
withdrove
zang-organ of yang nature