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
a stiff neck
abudefduf sordidus
acquired behavior
AIET
allachroic
amblygonite
ampoule washing machine
arteritis hyperplastica
asuncion mita
batch deodorization
between-deck bulkhead
bind(ing)
bottled juice
buffed leather
buret holder
call sb by name
chemoprophylactic agent
deliquated
descensus
direct readout satellite
disease progression
distended
divide-by-10
ECEG
enemator with vulcanite nozzle
family gesneriaceaes
fatigue failure of rock
favicons
flooxing
flour strength
Francis Scott Key
galacticon
gallows-ripe
Gap Insurance
general fixed assets
genus commelinas
genus Oleandra
goal directed reasoning
gotten out of repair
Greaca
greeneville
hectographed
herscus
hexyl-
Hollywood Ten
imidazothiadiazoles
IMPDH-h
incurvate
invigilatrices
john o'groat's house
juliennes
kakke diseases
knock into the middle of next week
limiting stratum
lisney
macrophthalmus serenei
maximum expected shift
Mendiaxon
mukwonago
nondeclaration
novoldiamine
onchocercal
orographic berriers
over wintering crops
oysters Rockefeller
parachute harness
pelargonane
periphcric blister
planosols
pottertons
precementum
protococcus
Reasonable Delay
regular supply
repeat oneself
retained deciduous teeth
reverse conversion
ruggedizing
sailing chart
sell up
ship spot
single point mooring port
single-flight stairs
son-in-law eggs
soporative
spot sowing
summed
sun leaf
tetrapyrrolic
thermal behaviour
threads per unit width
time azimuth table
toheroas
troponomies
Umm Rimthah
umptieth
vacuum returnline system
Vogt's syndrome
waste heat losses
watertight core
widdowsons