时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. Pakistani opposition 1 leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated 2 Thursday by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up. At least 20 others were also killed in the attack. Her death brings new chaos 3 in the nation that's an important US ally in the war on terror.


2. Police are reportedly investigating whether the young man mauled by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo taunted 4 the animal. The 300-pound animal was shot to death around closing time on Christmas Day after it attacked 3 men, killing 5 one.


3. In Washington State, detectives painstakingly 6 picked their way through this rural property where 6 family members were killed Christmas Eve. The property owner's daughter and boyfriend were arrested and are expected to appear in court Thursday afternoon.


4. Hotel magnate Barron Hilton plans to give the bulk of his nearly 2.5 billion dollar fortune to charity. The New York Post figures Barron's granddaughter Paris Hilton could have inherited 100 million, but now could collect only 5 million.



1 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
2 assassinated
v.暗杀( assassinate的过去式和过去分词 );中伤;诋毁;破坏
  • The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
  • Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后,肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句
3 chaos
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
4 taunted
嘲讽( taunt的过去式和过去分词 ); 嘲弄; 辱骂; 奚落
  • The other kids continually taunted him about his size. 其他孩子不断地耻笑他的个头儿。
  • Some of the girls taunted her about her weight. 有些女孩子笑她胖。
5 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
学英语单词
Acer hainanense
achaenium
anti-structure defect
antigen preparation
archless continuous kiln
ballistic missile defence committee
baroclinic atmosphere
be candid with you
black-letter day
boiler clearane
bolt head recess
bonemarrow
boomerang baby,boomerang kid
breakrooms
carriagepiece
Chinese Shaku-do bronze
compression element of a cable gland
converse relation
cotimazin
crotalaria alata hamilt .et roxb.
desegregationists
despexion
Echinostoma jassyense
edelweiss
factory-gate prices
fixed axial flow type steam separator
flow between conscious and unconscious
free elections
gba
give with vocals
goodish
Goungoun
grow up
Grupa
Gusinaya, Guba
handrests
have a haircut
heat-insulating washer
hit for six
hree
hub to rim fairing
hunting tool
hysteroepilepsies
integrating measuring instrument
knock something into a cocked hat
lacticcasein
legister
lepinotus inquilinus
limited trust
loading racks
marine development
marketing year
minimum idling stabilized speed
mire runoff
Miyakawanella
Moscicki condenser
multi-land drill and reamer
Namyotkin rearrangement
neoshaman
OMS (ovonic memory switch)
plunger type briquetting machine
polystichinol
power take off shaft
protozoal infection
q demodulator
radial shrinkage
radiating area
reutilises
rivermouths
rosmini
rotor yoke
Sagsay
sandemose
shaine
slam dunks
sonnenblick
space headway
space remote sensing
spectral index
Staritskogo, Gora
stockleys
sungen
supersingular elliptic curve
surama
throat pressure
ultra protective trade policy
ultrasonic humidifier
unit function
unruddered
up wash
urucuri
value-to-service
VAOS
vapourizing unit
vengers
viscous disspation
Wallraf-Richartz Museum
water-cooling tower
weekly world news
wood-and-steel composite truss
write gun