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. Churches around Virginia Tech were packed Sunday as students and residents turned to the pulpit for guidance and reassurance 1. Classes are set to resume at the university Monday, a full week after 32 people were killed by a gunman.


2. An air show in Beaufort, South Carolina started today with a somber 2 tribute to a pilot killed Saturday while performing there. The pilot was a member of the Navy's elite 3 Blue Angels. Investigators 4 say it could take several weeks to determine what caused the crash.


3. It appears voters in France have narrowed down the field of presidential candidates to two. Projections 5 from polls on Sunday show Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist 6 Segolene Royal leading the 12 contender field. If this hold, they'll both advance to a May runoff.


4. In rural Georgia, black and white high school students are coming together for prom for the first time. Turner County High School held its first integrated prom Saturday.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. pulpit: n-count
A pulpit is a small raised platform with a rail or barrier around it in a church, where a member of the clergy 7 stands to speak.


2. somber: adj
If someone is somber, they are serious or sad.
=sombre


3. narrow down: phrase
If you narrow down a range of things, you reduce the number of things included in it.


4. runoff: n-count
A runoff is an extra vote or contest which is held in order to decide the winner of an election or competition because no one has yet clearly won.


5. prom: n-count
A prom is a formal dance at a school or college which is usually held at the end of academic year.



n.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • He drew reassurance from the enthusiastic applause.热烈的掌声使他获得了信心。
  • Reassurance is especially critical when it comes to military activities.消除疑虑在军事活动方面尤为关键。
adj.昏暗的,阴天的,阴森的,忧郁的
  • He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
  • His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。
n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的
  • The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
  • We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
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》
预测( projection的名词复数 ); 投影; 投掷; 突起物
  • Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
  • The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。
n.社会主义者;adj.社会主义的
  • China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家,也是一个发展中国家。
  • His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。
n.[总称]牧师,神职人员
  • I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望,我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
  • All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。
学英语单词
acrylic quick drying baking paint
adjoining sheet
aeronautical research laboratory (arl)
aluminium circular cathode
androgeneses
asuntol
auxiliary ship observation
backgammon
bakelite gauge
battleship-shaped curves
be in your element
Belisarius
bend oneself to
boget
butadiene-lithium rubber
cartelised
charlet
chart depth
Chingo, Vol.
cinephile
clearing objective
common mapping
complete separation
criminal charge
dark elegies
decimetric wave
decoupling device
ditrematous
dormant coagulation
eight precious rice pudding
episiocele
extensioin pcr continuitatem
fanfaronaded
fascine dike
fat embolisms
ferroporphyrin
finger in
Flerzheim
fooms
for.the
forification
garmouths
gumbs
hastert
heart searching
helicogyrate
imperour
incissura ulnaris
jigjog
lay alongside
LDVC
lead collimator
linac acceptance
louis iis
lucky money
machine space zero people
majorly efficient solution
master handicraftsmen
miscellaneous cable
nephrolepis hirsutula pr.
night-robes
non-homologous pairs
normal channel
Oakland Heights
ongel
oscillographic integrator
paner
phetharbital
pump solution
Rauschwitz
rheumatoid arthritis serum
risk of labour agitation
rocket flare
rolling radius
rotating-shutter time-of-flight spectrometer
saccharogenic power
secondary hypochondriasis
siobla insularis
standard involute gear
Staze
steric inhibition of resonance
storage loss
strand deposit
streuth
suffer heatstock
sun's altitude angle
sunb
szirtes
tappet wrench
tatung series
thermionic arc
thienyl mercaptan
titanium(iii) iodide
tube-type line strander
two-dimensional optical radar
underwriting cost
vibration tolerance
viral nervous necrosis
viscosel viscometer
weight carrying roller bearing
Wood-beetle
yopd