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
a good time
agricultural extension service
allier
Ancylopsetta
appenicular muscle
asplenium excisum
asset market experiments
axewoman
Azotobacter(genus)
ball-in-tube damper
battlefleets
blackmountains
bronze ware
Conchagua, Vol.
cooking store
copper-tin alloy (electro)plating
cracking load
current filaments
danknesses
Daunmung Airfield
deck drain pipe
decontamination hall
degenerate cell
delay action starter
Dibromsalicylanilide
diversion and pumping
dottor
double-density compact disk
Elatostema hekouense
electrooptical beam splitter
enclosed separately ventilation
equivalence partition
external driving force
fairworlds
fiber optic mark photo sensors
fibre selector
fight over
flaky web
flower's bones
for buman consumption
fueling consumption rate
gavotting
go shooting
Gorno Morakovo
Hepatogastroenterology
homing capability
Hvaler
in the night
in-lot
incomespecieflow
inflammation of a joint
joinant
keep an eye on someone
Laminaria japonica Aresch
lavoltidine
lengthen
magic box
magnetic tape back-up station
mariellen
microimage system
morphopharmacology
Nemnyanka, Mys
NMDR
noise loading method
nuclear precession angular frequency
opercularly
optic scrambler
optically controlled gyro compass
orchdiopathy
over-pricing
pail-mail
paired preference test
paracusis of Willis
percolumbic acid
pivalate
pointed continuous mapping
pore dilation
poverty cycle
public danger
quest about for
rocker-arm push-rod
roof stick
rules for the construction of fishing vessel
Saxifraga elliptica
sea bears
shorebird
simulated leakage
single-stream
soft about
sollux
sorefalcon
Static-Line
Systema conducens cordis
take fright at something
tape vertical pulse
taxiplanes
telecrosser
toast rack
tracking pitch
unruly member
vasicek entropy-based test of normality
whipping-snapping