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. Wild celebrations erupted across Iraq following the national soccer team's victory in Asia's most prestigious 1 competition. Iraq defeated three-time champion Saudi Arabia one to nothing. At least four people were killed by celebratory gunfire.

2. Investigators 2 are searching through the remains 3 of two news helicopters that crashed in Phoenix 4 killing 5 four people. Witnesses say neither aircraft appeared to be in distress 6 before they collided.

3. Britain's new prime minister is coming to America. It's Gordon Brown's first major overseas trip since replacing Tony Blair as prime minister. Brown will hold talks with President Bush at Camp David and will deliver a speech to the United Nations.

4. A Pennsylvania man is recovering from his second lightning strike. Don Frick was struck Friday while attending a festival. The only casualty of the lightning strike was Frick's pants.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. one to nothing:
1:0

2. celebratory: adj [only before noun]
done in order to celebrate a particular event or occasion

3. distress: noun
a situation when a ship, aircraft etc is in danger and needs help


adj.有威望的,有声望的,受尊敬的
  • The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
  • You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.苦恼,痛苦,不舒适;不幸;vt.使悲痛
  • Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
  • Please don't distress yourself.请你不要忧愁了。
学英语单词
ADDAR (automatic digital data acquisition and recording)
Al Qā'
anemonism
antihemolysin
automatic dialing
birchen
ch'ing t'ien ch'ang
choles
clerkin
clove stalk
cold-drawn steel
complaint and claim
copper pitch ore
cotton-tape
crownland
Custoza
czecho
Dendrocalamopsis daii
design and manufacturing
detemperature rate
differential drive pinion bearing lock
dogling
downy poplars
duncan's multiple range test
dynamics of marine vehicles
excentralizer
felsina
flame-retardant
footstalks
Francescas
gendas
geomorphic geology
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
green snake
haul seine
headlight
heaven only knows
Hi-lo pulper
high frequency drier
horrider
horse-cars
hydrostatic manometer
icosta (icosta) fenestrella
in moderation
individual economy of the working people
iron removal
isolimonene
Jadīd Khulayf
jurados
Laing, R(onald) D(avid)
logging operation
loiterer
main equipment
manner of breathing
materials turnover
mcelwee
medium-term multiple currency loan
Mendelgina
morula spinosa
neutron warhead
new snow
non-degenerate simplex
non-displacement pile
nucleochronometer
nucleus population
opening of bond
Oxysophorcarpine
oxyurichthys amabalis
pegged leggers
perichaena corticalis liceoides
phalangeal cell
phase-space cell
Piyut
Plasmodium praerox
Pleurospermum foetens
plexus pancreaticus
power plant economy
prior claim
puppydom
quarterback draw
rear engine automobile
render right
scapelor
Ship Channel Cay
spasmodic rigidity
stamped concrete
standard gears
starting air consumption
submairne bulge
tallier
thirty-second note
tritan
tunica adventitia (ureteris)
two point problem
ultracrackate
unit trust company
voice data communication
water potential gradient
whalelore
William Kidd
yasukuni