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
-ary
aluminium polychlorid
arenarioides
as steadfast as a rock
Austevoll
AzU
Baldt anchor
ballgoers
band-i-baian (band-e bayan)
bank subsidence
battery boost
bellisle
biochemistry of fertilization and gametes
bread tin
can hardly refrain oneself
cheesing off
chushul (shushal)
cirrhoscyllium formosanum
compass window
conditionally compact game
constricts
Cronus
cushion ring
cystitis colli
declare contract avoided
denges passage
dynamic-stress
edinburgh festival
elective courses
embossed rock
erwinia cacticida (johns et hichc) houd
Eurya impressinervis
extinction(coefficient)
family rhinotermitidaes
Felling-series
ferzanas
fishing mortality coefficient
flagway
forgive ... for
four basic fields
geo-stationary earth orbit systems
geomorphic snowline
gross vacuum measurement
halfly
holographic interference pattern
Homosulfamide
intercrystalline segregation
interparietal hernia
isovists
library hours
light-handedness
liquid metal corrosion test
lockjaws
long terminal repeat
lost to the wide
malvesey
master-control unit
material procurement
meter readings
microphotometry
microspike
Miss x that was
monophyletist
motor individual power supply
movement transformation
nautical system
neurophic cytokine
no-discharge pump head
nonengineers
nonrapid eye movement sleeps
notarial act
oeks
original check
parioglossus formosus
Peflacin
perxisome
phengaris daitozana
Primula concholoba
proceeded from
pyrus phrifolia(burm.f.)nakai
Queen Alexandra
red haws
reducer
rissenite
scenellid
simper
single pile warp velvet
sleeveport
spacenap
square four
substantial shareholding
tap hole plug
the friendship hotel
turret mounting
underslung worm transmission
unquizzically
unthroughfaresome
useful area
Waldheimia glabra
washing soap
won't take no for an answer
zanflo