时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. Sunday marked the day of remembrance for the families of those who died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 5 years ago. Two hundred sixty-five people died when that plane crashed moments after taking off from New York's Kennedy Airport heading for the Dominican Republic.

2. Israel's prime minister is beginning a 5-day visit to the United States. Topping Ehud Olmert's agenda is the nuclear threat posed by an openly defiant 1 Iran. Israel fears the Arab state won't scale back off its nuclear ambitions unless consequences are feared.

3. Iraqi authorities report finding 75 bodies in Iraq on Sunday, an unusually high number, even in recent days marked with much bloodshed. Most bodies are victims of sectarian fighting and often go unidentified.

4. The sky over the Florida Keys was tart 2ed Sunday with parachutes as jumpers participated in the Keys Boogie annual skydiving festival. Various jump styles are attempted at the event which is considered the most visually stirring experience available for avid 4 fans of the sport.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. scale back : PHR-V
If you scale down something, you make it smaller in size, amount, or extent than it used to be..

2. tart : VERB
To dress up or make fancy in a tawdry, garish 5 way. Often used with up.

3. skydiving : N-NUCOUNT
Skydiving is the sport of jumping out of an aeroplane and falling freely through the air before opening your parachute.

4. stirring : ADJ
A stirring event, performance, or account of something makes people very excited or enthusiastic.



adj.无礼的,挑战的
  • With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时,仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
  • He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。
adj.酸的;尖酸的,刻薄的;n.果馅饼;淫妇
  • She was learning how to make a fruit tart in class.她正在课上学习如何制作水果馅饼。
  • She replied in her usual tart and offhand way.她开口回答了,用她平常那种尖酸刻薄的声调随口说道。
vt.将某人打扮得妖艳,将某物装饰得俗气(tart的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • The old man tarted up his shop so much that I couldn't recognize it. 那个老人把他的小店装饰得我都认不出来了。 来自辞典例句
  • Old Mrs Jones was all tarted up for the vicar's garden party. 琼斯老太太打扮得花枝招展去参加教区牧师举行的游园会。 来自互联网
adj.热心的;贪婪的;渴望的;劲头十足的
  • He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他还想贪图更多的钱。
  • She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教练的称赞。
adj.华丽而俗气的,华而不实的
  • This colour is bright but not garish.这颜色艳而不俗。
  • They climbed the garish purple-carpeted stairs.他们登上铺着俗艳的紫色地毯的楼梯。
学英语单词
A. P. D.
absorbent solution
accessory terminal
allogenic succession
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
ammonium acid carbonate
and-or-invert gate
areal suction effectiveness
Ariosto
artful pleading
aseptic necrosis
bisequence
black figure
blackfins
branding strategy
braxy
butt-fucker
bypassed oil area
cage hydraulic press
Caister-on-Sea
Captain Kirk
cinnamomea
complement accumulator instruction
core transformer
crystallophy
de novo
Din.,din.
double sharp
down-dip
financial and monetary institute
gelatin image
genus Genetta
go-in
goal delivery
gonos
gorillagrams
handwavey
hellbrigenin
high penetration bitumen
inclined rill system
inflammatory reaction
interrupt sensing circuit
jaundice occult
kanuha
kleenezes
knapps
Kobroor
laeliocattleya
lasianthus japonicus japonicus
laucht
leftwinger
Ligularia pleurocaulis
lyre-shaped pipe
macrocosmic
millicron
morvin
multiple priority level
nervous chill
night illumination
overfronts
panel of jury
PHRYNOMERIDAE
piston depositor
plant thinning machine
plastique
portait
printer control system
printmessage
radicalize
reclam
reducend
reentry telemetry
Reloy
repair depot
restlessnesses
Roman Catholic
Samhorodok
sampling parametric computation
schiaffino
Sete Quedas, Ilha Grande ou
Sholom Asch
single-phase three wire system
skid trail
solid-state metallurgy
straight roller
straight through cooling
Stura, Torrente
supermatic ship
supracervical
translation circuit
tray internal materials
unconstrained
under-rogue
unsubtly
Uppuveli
Viterbo, Prov. di
wellappointedness
winding signalling
Xanthostemon
zoit
Zombie network