时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课
1. Hurricane warnings for Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica as Hurricane Dean bears down on the Caribbean islands. Dean is about 175 miles south of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, moving to the west-northwest at about 17 miles an hour.

2. The big storm is also prompting changes in space. NASA is cutting short the spacewalk today for Endeavour astronauts. They're giving the crew time to pack up and get ready for a possible one-day early return to Kennedy Space Center.

3. Michael Deaver, one of President Reagan's closest advisers 1, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 69. A family statement says he died today at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. Deaver was convicted in 1987 on perjury 2 charges concerning his lobbying activities while at the White House.

4. After a month in rehabilitation 3, Bob the tortoise is home again. The 25-year-old pet had been tortured after he was stolen from his owner's yard on July 7th. For his first meal after having his feeding tube removed, Bob gobbled up hibiscus flowers and roses.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. bear down:
to move quickly towards a person or place in a threatening way

2. cut short:
to stop doing something earlier than you planned

3. pack up:
to put things into cases, bags etc ready for a trip somewhere

4. lobby: verb
to try to persuade the government or someone with political power that a law or situation should be changed

5. rehabilitation: noun
to help someone to live a healthy, useful, or active life again after they have been seriously ill or in prison


顾问,劝告者( adviser的名词复数 ); (指导大学新生学科问题等的)指导教授
  • a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
  • She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
n.伪证;伪证罪
  • You'll be punished if you procure the witness to commit perjury.如果你诱使证人作伪证,你要受罚的。
  • She appeared in court on a perjury charge.她因被指控做了伪证而出庭受审。
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
学英语单词
acalolepta degener
ACANTHOCLINIDAE
analog-digital transformation
angled twill
as well
asolos
AUASS
basosquamous
biaxial strength
bis motor
blown glass tumbler
box maker
busy lamp indicator
clevis mounting cylinder
compatibility torsion
confabulates
Connerre
coolscan
coquillettia (coquillettia) nigrosignata
corn-soy-blend
credit slips
critical incident interview
cross-reference program
cyclopyrrolone
cyst of ligamentum teres uteri
deep extruded area
dfmv
diatoric tooth
edf
electron crack
embarras de choix
end absorption
epicontinental geosyncline
epitheloid sarcoma
extra-mundane
Falls' test
fractional terminatior
fusion-piercing drill
Gianna
grederne
half-sectional view
hardness test
heartstricken
helmspeople
helpfile
hierarchical approach
high-level output voltage
higher-order coherence function
hull vibration behaviour
hymenopenaeus propinquus
in the melting pot
intercontinental ballistic missiles
intra-amniotical
Japvo, Mt.
Kobaltocalcit
leak vibroscope
lentic environment
magnetic ink printing
majorana neutrino
manual slot
marine data management
mathematical subroutine library routine
metallic diaphragm indicator
movement disorder
mutiple-stage sludge digestion
myricaria elegans royle
Nigula
Nikolaas Tinbergen
nonmoving water
ophiocephalus
optimized intermediate language
paragnosis
pepsin secreting cells
Phalangida
plasmolyzability
precursor effect
program collating sequence
purkinje's vesicle
Pāpa'aloa
rami mediastinales
rasier
remobilisations
sap-sample
scintillation analysis
scintillation coincidence spectrometer
Sedafamen
Sheffield Lake
steelsmith
superior fascia of pelvic diaphragm
synchronous input
tariff on cotton
tecomine
thusand
tidal alarm
Trudeau mania
unsettleable
venereal vaginitis
Warmann
Wassermann, August von
Wassermann-Uhlenhuth blood-test
water vapour heat setting
welders helmet