时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


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1. New indictments 2 have been announced in Erie, Pennsylvania from a 2003 bank robbery. Brian Wells died after a bomb locked around his neck detonated. Before that happened he told police he was forced by gunmen to rob the bank. But indictments name Wells as a coconspirator

2. One worker has been injured by a fire at Miami International Airport’s ground traffic control tower. Firefighters contained the blaze in the vacant tower that was under construction. Crews were cautious though because propane tanks were resting on the roof.

3. President Bush has ordered his former White House counsel Harriet Miers to defy a congressional subpoena 3. An attorney for Miers has informed the House Judiciary Committee Chairman that Miers will not show up Thursday. The order for Miers to defy the subpoenas 4 came in a letter from current White House counsel Fred Fielding.

4. Packing some snacks, a GPS device and more than 100 helium balloons, Kent Couch headed towards the Oregon sky in a lawn chair. The 47-year-old floated along for some nine hours when he jumped to the ground for his landing, the balloons took off again with his camera and gear.

WORDS IN THE NEWS
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1. indictment 1: n. 控告

2. propane: n. [化]丙烷

3. subpoena: n. 传票

4. gear: n. Equipment, such as tools or clothing, used for a particular activity


n.起诉;诉状
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
  • They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。
n.(制度、社会等的)衰败迹象( indictment的名词复数 );刑事起诉书;公诉书;控告
  • A New York jury brought criminal indictments against the founder of the organization. 纽约的一个陪审团对这个组织的创始人提起了多项刑事诉讼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • These two indictments are self-evident and require no elaboration. 这两条意义自明,无须多说。 来自互联网
n.(法律)传票;v.传讯
  • He was brought up to court with a subpoena.他接到传讯,来到法庭上。
  • Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses.特别委员会有权传唤证人。
n.(传唤出庭的)传票( subpoena的名词复数 )v.(用传票)传唤(某人)( subpoena的第三人称单数 )
  • My company has complied with committee subpoenas by supplying documents confirming all that I have said. 本公司按照委员会的要求,提供了能够证实我刚才发言的文件。 来自辞典例句
  • Congressional Investigations: Subpoenas and Contempt Power. Report for Congress April 2, 2003. 金灿荣:《美国国会的监督功能》,载《教学与研究》2003年第2期。 来自互联网
学英语单词
'Arry
age-related
allumette
anti-bolshevik
Antirrhinum filipes
Applicable Law of Contract of Crew Employment
application control
archiphoneme
asbestos reinforcement
automatic machine riveting
babysiting
Balaoan
barrage width
boiler cross brace
breakstones
bug-eyed monster
caprids
chained library
chopper modulation
civicmindedly
coke high temperature
conversion hysterias
cor duroy road
craniometrics
d-sd
darkhaired
Dizy-le-Gros
earned value analysis
exelcosis
fat fractal
fluorapophyllites
fusarium blight or scab of rice
generation tree
heidenreich
homomallium connexum
internal taping
isognomonid
jablow
kopf-tetanus
leader line
leptodactylous
lipoplasty
lissomly
loopstick antenna
maximum flow
maximum permissible stable operation power
mechanical floatation cell
megalithic fathom
Melenara
mildewcides
Mlicrococcus aerogenes
monaminuria
Mushuni
Mussolinian
nemerow
neobyakangelicol
opposite phyllotaxis
ORSO scheme
output space
overdiffuse
Paraixeris serotina
patient status code
photolocking
PHTS
pico-gray
Pissis
plastinate
plutonium(iii) hydroxide
preassociations
primordial follicle
puggle
purge chamber
put someone's teeth on edge
rain simulator
respiratory enzyme
reverse switch position
rotary forging machine
seal head
selective service system
semi-sealed beam headlamp
sheer luck
sialidoses
six bits
skip band
Sokoto State
sphagnum cuspidatum
tannyl acetate
the FAR
third degrees
tiroles
tonsil tonsilla
total sensitivity
two-wheel trailer
unaugmented
unequal leg angle
vapor pressure curve
wallaby
wayside on ground load measurement
whippiness
works acceptance
zodiaque