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
accessory nerveinjury
accumulation settlement
adjacent waters
administrative building
alternative site
amblyglyphidodon curacao
antibi
aurhorized personnel
Austrocedrus
automatary
barium complex
beginning capital
Bercomine
besteals
Bicaj
big C, Big C
blow-off(pet)cock
brendice
capacitance-resistance
casting analyzer
clued-up
cohq
compactly generated space
computer aided design (cad)
concentrated charging
die-block
direct current suppressor
DL50
elasticmembrane
electrolytic mercaptan removal
enacteth
equivalent isotropically radiated power
esomeprazole
evynnis tumifrons
excess co2
flung into
gato
gillilands
halfwidth
have the honor of
hemitrisulfide
herba impias
HMG-CoA
Hypermastigida
institution-led
insulation porcelain
intracortically
iodine flask
j-axis
jorobada
Jössefors
keep a sharp lookout
Kenalog
keynoting
kowtower
Le Hohwald
lens impaction
lower right corner
mango tilapia
marker frequency
maximum of a function
mechanically driven interrupter
microhydra
Mouse cursor
Much Wenlock
narrow cuts of solids
never for a single minute
not so much
ocean sampling and environmental analysis system
on hand balance
open infusion method
ore slag electric furnace
oxybutylene
ozekis
par-three
partial cavity
pick up someone
pneumatolytic
potassium succinate
pre-assembly
program control system
proprietary solution
reference aids
remote access(RAX)
ring bus-bar
rotelle
rush rose
semi-indoor power plant
settling desalting
site meeting
South Buganda Prov.
sublimating ablative compound
tallensis
transport interface data unit
TV outlet
unprimitive
urticating substances
wafer process
weak and large pulse
weight guarantee
Windows shell