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. The US military says it killed a senior al-Qaeda official responsible for several high-profile kidnappings of Westerners. Official say Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri served as al-Qaeda's information minister in Iraq. He is believed to have been involved in the kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll.


2. A bus carrying high school students to a band competition crashed into a tractor-trailer early Thursday, shutting down traffic on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Thirty people were injured. Most of the injuries were minor 1 although the bus driver is in critical condition.


3. Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury 2 Seven astronauts died today of a heart attack. Shirra was the only astronaut to fly on NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.


4. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is in the US to celebrate the 400th anniversary 3 of Jamestown. The Queen will also meet with students of Virginia Tech and attend the Kentucky Derby.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. high-profile: adj.
A high-profile person or a high-profile event attracts a lot of attention or publicity 4.


2. turnpike: n-count
A turnpike is a road, especially an expressway, which people have to pay to drive on. (mainly AM)



adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
n.汞,水银,水银柱
  • The liquid we can see in thermometers is mercury.我们看到的温度计里的液体是水银。
  • Mercury has a much greater density than water.水银的密度比水大得多。
n.周年(纪念日)
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
  • Today is my parents'30th wedding anniversary.今天是我父母结婚30周年纪念日。
n.众所周知,闻名;宣传,广告
  • The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
  • He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法。
学英语单词
abaca rope
adament
adjustable tractor seat
aedeagal
Augustean
automatic programming of machine tools (autopromt)
Bazdar
benzoyl-aminoacetic acid
biodebridement
bleeker
blow to smithereens
break a law
brodinsky
chlorine fluoride volatility process
chocolatiers
class of disinfecting
closed base
cloud top
coherent transient spectroscopy
condensed balance sheet
conical shell ring
cyclical chromatography
delinked
density of load
departmentalised
dermoscopic
diagnostic names
dictionaryless
drone-a-thon
echelon starting positions
edaphogenic mineral
endobronchial tuberculosis
enemy interference
energy program
Europasians
farm-wife
frequency, field
gliding craft
gonnes
heterogenetic pairing
highest quotation
hyperoche medusarum
inert gas drier
infinite tree
insulation puncture
intensity transmissivity
international financial institution
interpaled
isol
isosarmentosine
jaroslava
kozloduy
low energy surface
low resolution facsimile
mail hub
maximization over discrete
media eminence
media virus
microcirculations
modifier area
Mongolian wool
mortgage security
non-consolute drop
non-contact nuclear densimeter
off the bat
orientation training
oscillator stability
osteotomist
overrange protection
oxidative decanning
phytomia (phytomia) zonata
plaque-purified
plateau(table-land)
pod mahogany
provocation methods
psychological gnp
quadratic differential form
refresh counter
regiones laryngea
rememberings
retardation spectra
risk array method
rotochemical
Salvia chinensis
San Salvador, I.
sand flow rate
saw tooth current
second-foot
sector lever
silver soldering alloys
Sint-Pieters-Voeren
species indeterminate
srarabiasis
stem region
stormingly
strongly elliptic differential operator
subordinate clause
tamanduas
the natural world
torch pipe
Trilostan
without accent