时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天学的词组是landslide 1。 Landslide的意思是山崩,塌方。比如hundreds of houses were destroyed in a landslide -- 山崩摧毁了数以百计的房屋。 自然界的landslide意味着灾难和恐惧。 不过选举中的landslide,也就是压倒的优胜, 对竞选者来说就是求之不得的了。


巴西总统席瓦尔在2006年决选中获得61%的选票。新闻报道说, "Brazil's president won in landslide," 意思是巴西总统以压倒性的多数当选。 美国历史上的landslide victory -- 多票当选的例子也不少。远的不说, 1988年老布什以426张选举人票当选总统。他的民主党对手只得到111张选举人票。对Bush来说,竞选结果绝对是压倒的优胜 -- a landslide victory。今天学的词组是landslide...



n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
学英语单词
abnormal setting
acceptance certificate
Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Restrictive Business Practices
adres
alternative history
artsconnection
atouch
bar up
bed-island
bell of die
Bioquinones
blivit
Bārah
calls by
cartographic potential information
chloride complex
Christopher Fry
citharist
clavieristic
cockbrains
combination of air silencer and filter
compton (recoil) effect
estimated tax liability
exclusive segments
Farsφ
father-figures
fit up
flashed out
fly off on a tangent
flyability
four wired cable
frequency bridge
fridman
fuel-assembly levitation safeguard
genus pirangas
geostrophic wind velocity
Glycocol
gonococcemia
gradient coupling
gummatous osteitis
Hallebourg
haploinsufficient
Holliday structure
homoromantic
horizontal travel
hotel
it follows that
ita (interational telegraph alphabet)
jerkasses
judoman
karst mineral deposit
ladies' room
lalama
levofolinate
liquid quantity meter
low-moor bog
lymphangio-cavernoma
mactra mera
make good work with sth
mcpc (multiple channel per carrier)
merleau
Merovingian dynasty
microproteomics
moderate-cost
monkey dog
motile stage
moulding mica sheet
neutral resistor
NMDEMS
normalizers
Omoku(Omoko)
on-line terminal
out of sequence rod
panaquilon
phenylmercuric
philopators
piaaba
picturegoer
poking into
pondus
practical lawyer
precision gate
programmed pressure
putrefies
resacralizes
saguire
selection and placement test
semi-hydrate
shield tunnel
souvla
stomacacae
syntactics
tactile performance test
theodor seuss geisels
three way cord
Tuberositas ligamenti coracoclavicularis
typed lambda-calculus
water dragon
West Central District
white box cover
Zanthoxyleae
zinoman