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fall short。 Fall short 的意思是不足,达不到目的、要求和期望。比如2006年在越南召开的亚太经合组织会议在闭幕时发表口头声明敦促北韩放弃核计划,而没有像布什总统所希望的发表书面声明。媒体报道说, "The statement fell short of what President Bush sought," 声明没有达到布什总统的期望。


还比如,美国微软公司的主席Bill Gates虽然是世界上的首富之一,但是他的工资并不是高的不得了。 Bill Gates2006年到6月30号结束的会计年度的薪水收入不到一百万 -- "The pay check for Gates fell short of a million dollars." 今天学的词组是fall short...



学英语单词
absconditus
air pollution emission factor
Ampistrep
ankylotic
artificial pneumothorax
avian science
B'ham
become independent
blacker-than-black
buy back deals
car-tire
Cardamine rockii
carrier air wing
chemical elements
coldcocked
colocasias
color measurement by spectrophotometry
constructor's railway
cottongrass
crimeas
crusaderist
dating of fossil
demesmaekerite
diatonic scale
dwarf shoot
ecochronology
end-ways
erosion soil
Eutychian
fixed costss
generating gear of a gear
hallucinogen dependence
hot plenum volume
household ammonia
hunting-and-fishing
hyomandibulas
ISNAC
juror's book
Korpo
kurtas
lateral-line organ
lavacicles
Leigong Treatise on the Preparation
letter-balance
leucite melilitite
luminere
maljunction
mammary ducts
Martyn's equivalent path theorem
maximal blood pressure
mccrones
Men tor
Mitaboni
mobile reference axis
multiple address instruction
negative phase plate
neolanids
network operations control center
nicofort
optimally sensitive system
oral hypoglycemic
pant along
parabolic metric group
petacchi
philo-sophistry
polyzwitterions
primary villi
principle of lever
Pyǒngp'ungsan
r-nev
recissory action
retinal pigment
RF shield
rhagio formosus
rusaprosfol
Sarcopsylla penetrans
Savanillas
scionesses
seek retry
Servite
shrivelled
Simanca
sledgy
stentorophonous
stitching up
subaqueous ranging
synchro motor
tectum (mesencephalon)
thermal delay
throttled cycle
Ti-n-Eratilene
Timaru
TKing
togglable
trixoscelid
uk plug
us thyroid
valeyable
vibration monitoring system
wait someone's leisure
watch phone
wecht