时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月


英语课

1. It looks like Illinois state lawmakers won't be getting into the criminal case against Gov. Rod Blagojevich as they consider whether he should be impeached 1. Federal prosecutors 2 today asked them not to delve 3 into the case, saying they're concerned it could hurt their own investigation 4.


2. Some commuters in Washington got a scare this morning as a massive water main break turned this road into a raging river. A number of people had to be saved, including this pair who had to be airlifted to safety.


3. Winter weather is leading to hundreds of flights being canceled in Chicago and delays at both O'Hare International and Midway airports. Dozens of Amtrak passengers are also reporting being stranded 5 in Chicago for more than 12 hours awaiting a New York-bound train.


4. A couple of giant pandas are getting used to their new home. The two arrived in Taiwan today. They are a gift from China as the rivals try to better their relationship.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. delve: v.


If you delve into something, you try to discover new information about it.


2. water main: n.


a large underground pipe that carries the public supply of water to buildings


 



1 impeached
v.控告(某人)犯罪( impeach的过去式和过去分词 );弹劾;对(某事物)怀疑;提出异议
  • Elected officials can be impeached. 经过选举产生的官员可以被弹劾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The judge was impeached for taking a bribe. 这个法官被检举接受贿赂。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
3 delve
v.深入探究,钻研
  • We should not delve too deeply into this painful matter.我们不应该过分深究这件痛苦的事。
  • We need to delve more deeply into these questions.这些是我们想进一步了解的。
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
5 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
学英语单词
'Abd Allāh, Khawr
actual implementation
air-letters
apocopations
aristopaks
banana equivalent dose
basis wing
better and better
biogasoline
blaccents
blue daisy
bufonaria gnorima
caligula japonica arisana
catalogue raisonne
cauduro
center zero meter
conductress
conservative character
constant-volume gas thermometry scale
contest competition
controlling temperature
crackling sound
cut dimension plane
dehydrochlorinate
dies on the vine
dihs
distance decision function
domestic prelate
enriched gas
Fast sure bind.
four-way union
free dial
genitive phrase
global matrix
glucose with vitamin D
graduated arc
great-grandpa
grin-rod lens three-mirror resonator
handling of radioactive cadaverous
Hemsleya obconica
hoochie mamas
horizontal-ring drilling
horn feed system
hosta opipara f. maekawa
hot machine
indigestiblenesses
kepier
KGTC
leaflike ornamentation
lend support to
liparia
made away with
manufactured article
marianass
melodious warblers
noninverting
on trip
OP (operation code)
ordered linear space
orthogonal expansion
pass through partition
passenger station
pectinioside
photoelectric encoder
plain block
pLRNL
primitive spermatogonium
prospective application
Proto-Japonic
pull-through operation
Pwalagu
quaque hora
radix angelicae tuhuo
railway operating fixed assets
raysse
RF (reserve free)
roomthe
round-bladedknife
rubber asphalt unit
rubricator
sea moth
sense of coldness
standby application
stereoselectively
Stresa Conference
T-bar lift
tape erasure
thermo color
Trent River
trustin'
two-lip hand ladle
unmetabolizable
used to do
valued ticket
versipel
wash load
webkinz
well-formulated
wets us
Whitworth screw pitch gauge
zone levelling