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. Masked Kurdish demonstrators set a bus on fire in Turkey Sunday to protest the solitary 1 confinement 2 of a Kurdish rebel leader. Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy since 1984.

2. West Virginia governor Joe Manchin is calling for major safety improvement laws at the state and federal level following the deaths of 14 miners in 2 tragic 3 accidents.

3. In Portugal, voters are picking a new president. No candidate captures more than 50 percent of the vote. A second round between the top two candidates will be held Feb. 12th.

4. And here she is, Miss America. Miss Oklahoma Jennifer Berry was crowned Miss America Saturday night. The 22-year-old senior at the University of Oklahoma is an aspiring 4 teacher. The struggling pageant 5 was held in Las Vegas. It's the first time in 85 years the event was held outside Atlantic City, New Jersey 6.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. solitary confinement : noun [U]
when someone is kept in a room alone, usually in a prison 单独监禁

2. aspiring: adj.
hoping to be successful in a particular job, activity, or way of life:
e.g. aspiring young writers

3. pageant : noun [C]
a competition for young women in which they are judged on their beauty and other qualities:
e.g. a beauty pageant



adj.孤独的,独立的,荒凉的;n.隐士
  • I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
  • The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际,显得十分壮美。
n.幽禁,拘留,监禁;分娩;限制,局限
  • He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
  • The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
adj.有志气的;有抱负的;高耸的v.渴望;追求
  • Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
  • He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句
n.壮观的游行;露天历史剧
  • Our pageant represented scenes from history.我们的露天历史剧上演一幕幕的历史事件。
  • The inauguration ceremony of the new President was a splendid pageant.新主席的就职典礼的开始是极其壮观的。
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
学英语单词
alltians-retinol
associator
aureatest
automatic preset
be at home in some place
bipolar mmic
bit count check
Bracciano, L.di
cafeteria scheme
calamo
cncs
cocinin
coil preparation unit
conformity of the goods
credit on security of personal property
dangerous goods in limited quantity
deshon
Diana Sonkodou
dimetric drawing
divad
doucement
down-draft drying zone
DR-DOS
dye penetration test
elaoptene
elastic labor demand curves
elastic-scattering cross-section
electron-positron pair creation
enamelled strip
encarpus tile
epoxyethylcyclooctane
evaluation of machine translation
expand on
eyebar
factor of subdivison
flood stage hydrograph
flux tube
gammametry
gear reduced drive
geminations
gossomyre
greyishness
hissing test
honesty is the best policy
Hookear
Hyargas
hyperdactyly
ink-recording
integration between limits
intetumumab
irradiation tube
Jihlava
job vacancy rate
late symptom
linear differential transformator
Listowel Downs
logical valve
lower half crankcase
lucencies
m.a
maize rains
mambos
Margaery
masoned
metalloendoprotease
mishale
mistracks
mistura ipecacuanhae ammoniata pro infantibus
myeloradiculodysplasia
non-cushioned
Nong Ngu Hao Airport
nongermanium
one yourself
organ of smell (or olfactory organ)
origin-destination survey
pericaecal
phosphoglycerolipid
phosphorescing
photofragments
premium reserve
privileged input
repressors
rudder deck stop
Sandikli
savart's polarizing plate
savellis
shmear
sichuan peppercon
slot armor
staff-related expense
statistic handbook
stock fish
summas
t-model
tantalum alloys
the humanities
timecards
toland
unobstrusive
view finder eyepiece
wiener
wordlike