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
abluding
add/drop module
agreement of reimbursement
Airbnb
Andrew Huxley
aortic area
aortic cusp
ash sluicing water
availability of a candidate
bannum
blondish
blue curls,blue-curls
Claw me and I'll claw thee.
club hand
colletotrichum bixae
composite paper can
converging traffic volume
crystalline carborundum
cultural deprivation
disturbed flow
double sloping bed
ear polyp
easy-to-find
electronic storefront
elysian fabric
embankment foundation
equalizer amplifier
erre
erythrophlamine
Expiration time
fdts (floor drain tank system)
feedback gain matrix
first lady
flatley
fluorescent marker
gemmoid
gram-positive
ground-to-cloud discharge
haematozoon
half keystone ring
incrassating
increase or decrease clause
Jamaica pepper oil
kibbee
Kokandomycin
krinkle
Leuconostoc dextranic
low inflation
Lowlenthal reaction
Mach trim compensator
mazlow
message journaling function
methophenazine
Miami County
mica-schist
non-fluorescing electrolyte
nonprogrammed dicesion
North Dravidian
optical fiber distribution frame
orbital points
oryzanol
overload displacement
Oyëk
paracarpous
parallel-current condenser
pentadecagons
pin-prick inoculation
pneumatic console
potential attractive force
powertool
profound idiot
proportional-position action
pseudotermination
reel control
remotely controlled section
retaliatory customs duty
reverse-graded media
RTTS
SAAST
scrap box sling
segmental phoneme
standing seam
storage of data
subsimilis
suronacrine
terpinols
tissue storage by deep freezing
to get acquainted with...
torcular tourniquet
torque loss
trailing decision loop
transmission-shaft
trueblue
Twilight Saga
urinary obstruction
usnea nipparensis
Ventodisks
voider
water curtain spraying booth
weir discharge coefficient
wootan
zone punch