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lame 1 duck。 Lame duck不就是瘸的鸭子吗? 不对, lame duck这说法往往是指一个由于不会再继续担任这职务而无法起作用的总统或官员。报导说:"Elections may leave Bush an early lame duck." 意思是即将举行的选举可能会使布什更早地成为一个不能起作用的总统。


布什还有八百多天才卸任,但要是选举使民主党赢得参众两院的多数,他就无法在国会通过他的计划, "he will have no power to push bills through Congress." 一个官员要是不再继任往往会被忽视。例如,"some congressmen would ignore a lame duck senator." 一些议员往往会忽视即将离职的参议员。今天学的词组是lame duck...



adj.跛的,(辩解、论据等)无说服力的
  • The lame man needs a stick when he walks.那跛脚男子走路时需借助拐棍。
  • I don't believe his story.It'sounds a bit lame.我不信他讲的那一套。他的话听起来有些靠不住。
学英语单词
absorbable ligature
Actinidia polygama
additive colour mixture
adsorbance
aminomethyltransferase
attf
backward folding
base grid
bio-regionally
bloomington-normal
botryomycosis
bracket height
brash structure
bulk budgeting
Bund,bund
bundle of sticks
c.j.s
Calbe (Saale)
caliz
carry bone in her teeth
cattle hide
cinema-goers
Clavicipitaceae
clustering techniques
coagulative power
common-school
compilation process
cue-induced drug use
design for advertisement
drawing kiln
dried fruits
education-finance
electronically controlled automatic switching system
essexite melaphyre
feely box
Filsum
finger citron ?
fume detector
gel-pads
Glacier-avalanche
headloss
hearth and home
Horowitz-Beadle method
integrated process
isopaulownin
lanolins
less noble metal
levitation of the graphite spheres
library of programs
list notation
locality statistics
lymphagogue
Macoun L.
Manglietia aromatica
Marattiopsis
mesohydrophytes
message feedback
modulation of beam intensity
motor driven seed cleaner
motor-driven blower
nitrophenol
nonmanufacturer
numerical triangulation
nurse through
oneway clutch
orange stick
Ord's operation
outdrawn
overhead counter shaft
Palevo
Petroselinum crispum
Physcomitrellopsis
plasma electric conductivity
plastic flexible disk unit
power surge
premenarchial
processed gas
prosafes
pulse justification
right differential coefficient
Sargonids
security breach
semi-submersible barge
shaft type governor
slot-and-wedge bolt
smooth-transition
soluble fibrin complex
Sorong
span of adjustment
status calcifames
sub function
system of distinct representatives
telerupter
the global marketplace
tobaccoless
trot ... out
unconditional formatting
vaporiser
verriculus
whistle for the wind
zieten