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. Moments before being captured, a suspected New Jersey 1 bank robber begged police to shoot him. The man is one of the three suspects in a string of robberies. One led to the shooting of an FBI agent accidentally shot by a colleague.


2. Video from four years ago shows this Brooklyn divorce judge accepting cash and a 250-dollar box of cigars. They are from a lawyer seeking leniency 2 in his own bribery 3 case.


3. Passengers say crew members on this sinking cruise ship were more frightened than they were. Some leaving before passengers got off the ship. It eventually sank after striking rocks off an island in the Aegean Sea.


4. In the Florida Keys, they are hunting for Easter eggs underwater. One dive shop features a scuba 4 diving Easter bunny hiding hard boiled eggs. Divers 5 search for eggs on the sea floor dodging 6 schools of fish, then turning in eggs for prizes.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. leniency: n-uncount
Leniency is a lenient 7 attitude or behavior. When someone in authority is lenient, they are not as strict or severe as expected.


2. scuba diving: n-uncount
Scuba diving is the activity of swimming underwater using special breathing equipment. The equipment consists of cylinders 8 of air which you carry on your back and which are connected to your mouth by rubber tubes.


3. dodge 9: verb
If you dodge something, you avoid it by quickly moving aside or out of reach so that it cannot hit or reach you.



n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
n.宽大(不严厉)
  • udges are advised to show greater leniency towards first-time offenders.建议法官对初犯者宽大处理。
  • Police offer leniency to criminals in return for information.警方给罪犯宽大处理以换取情报。
n.贿络行为,行贿,受贿
  • FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
  • He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
n.水中呼吸器
  • I first got hooked on scuba diving when I was twelve.12岁时我开始迷上了带水中呼吸器潜水。
  • While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
adj.不同的;种种的
  • He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人,要他们和他作伴。
  • Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作,同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。
n.避开,闪过,音调改变v.闪躲( dodge的现在分词 );回避
  • He ran across the road, dodging the traffic. 他躲开来往的车辆跑过马路。
  • I crossed the highway, dodging the traffic. 我避开车流穿过了公路。 来自辞典例句
adj.宽大的,仁慈的
  • The judge was lenient with him.法官对他很宽大。
  • It's a question of finding the means between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.问题是要找出处理过宽和处罚过严的折中办法。
n.圆筒( cylinder的名词复数 );圆柱;汽缸;(尤指用作容器的)圆筒状物
  • They are working on all cylinders to get the job finished. 他们正在竭尽全力争取把这工作干完。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • That jeep has four cylinders. 那辆吉普车有4个汽缸。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.闪开,躲开,避开;n.妙计,诡计
  • A dodge behind a tree kept her from being run over.她向树后一闪,才没被车从身上辗过。
  • The dodge was coopered by the police.诡计被警察粉碎了。
学英语单词
Abney mounting
adipohaemocyte
air-minded
albuminoid
alcoholimeter
all-item
Alpinia malaccensis
angina nosocomii
antibullying
asarum forbesii maxim.
at very short notice
base-load powerstation
Beloit
Berthelot ralation
BSRAM
cardiovascular center
career opportunities
cheese-room
Christianese
coagulation point
comformity relator
command readout
Comorians
competitive cementation
computer industry association
control valve cap
coventry type die head coventry
daceloes
differential transmitting selsyn
duplicating the cube
electronic logic
electronic pantograph
elementary microfibril
estimated rate distribution
external evidence
Fawcus' brilliant green-bile salt agar
Ferkane
field-induced ionization
florance
franklinism
French toast
fundamental singularity
gauge saw
golden-eyed flies
grammatical attribute
hand shield
hot lunches
hydraulic index
indeliable
joint meniscus
Kugelblitz
laser illuminator
leontopodiums
leukocytopenia
Lie on the oars!
linen spinning set
lipidolysis
Mago-jima
mattituck
mini golf
musculi mylopharyngeus
muttniks
Narran L.
neolallism
non reciprocal preferential treatment
non-commutativity of substitution
noninterpretative
noosers
osteotympanic
over-severe
panax schinsengs
Pierry
Polykastro
pressure drop of separator
printer record
Proper Lookout
psychorhythmia
push button array
pyrargyrites
quick-reaction
radio firing device
rear piglets
refuelling pattern
Reugny
Rocky Pt.
sensing relay
signalcurbing
Soldeu
sole offer
Spirosoma
stock market quotation
Streptogan
subsatellite point
t(organ)
T-junction boxT
the root of the matter
time deposit
to life
Virginian winterberry
white rose of innocence
wienerest
X-ray inspection test