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
a saving grace
Acantharina
aminoxytriphene
anthropomorphizing
anti-abrasion layer
apis cerana
Arthabaska
arts demand
auxiliary landing field
ball gag
Bolchary
cabrits
camarca
cock-throwing
coles
CP (constant potential)
cross-referreds
distance-distribution lithofacies map
distilled water wash
dogskin leather
dyrewolves
earphone
elasticator (elasticizer)
elevation of well
eosere
escheat
external power
eye-witness identification
float glass bath
foom
fox-hunts
hand brake hanger
high pressure units
holy days
hopance
hydraulic calibrating press
hydrostatic fuel-level gauge
hymnological
hyperexplexia
index of quality
intersperse with
inverse resonance
John Keble
Kegan
Kocs
lesser circuIation
limboes
Limnophila rugosa
lindos
ljungstrom-type air heater
long pass
lubrication order
lucken gowan
Macaranga denticulata
manifold flow mechanics
marketing failure
mini-framework
modern decision pattern
monotloea
Nepeta kokanica
nevelson
non-dynamite source
nonallergic rhinitis with eosinophilia syndrome
off the nail
open - and - shut case
out of someone's road
outer normal vector
pakchois
prp-t
pyoseroculture
Quelccaya ice cap
rampal
range service manual
re-dialing function
re-employing
recoiling parts
ring gear
role of accountant
Samuil
sequencing criteria
shoats
silent zone of lung
single link line
sintaxanthin
sliding noise
stair exit
stemonitis trechispora
stutter
suspension current
swimmer dermatitis
symptomatic pruritus
talking with friends
tceq
thermometirc method
time loan
timer cut off
tracer gas method
Tricellaria
Ventriculoperitoneostomy
virtue signalling
widgeries
Youngia tenuifolia