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. Two men accused of placing electronic ads that caused the citywide scare around Boston have been released on bond. Prosecutors 1 say the men were trying to cause fear and unrest, but after court the two mocked the case and made light of the situation.


2. Areas of the Southeast are under snow and ice following an overnight blast of wintry weather. Parts of South Carolina got up to 4 inches of snow and ice. And 30 counties in northern Georgia closed their schools for the day.


3. Maytag is recalling more than two million dishwashers because of faulty wiring. The appliance is in question of blame for causing 135 fires and 4 injuries.


4. They may look like the real thing. But police in Miami are warning consumers that these won't get you into the Super Bowl Sunday. Authorities say there are a number of fake tickets being offered to fans and on the Internet. And they promise to crack down on sellers.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. make light of: phrase
If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.


2. in question: phrase
If something is in question or has been called into question, doubt or uncertainty 2 has been expressed about it.


3. crack down: phrase
If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.



检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
学英语单词
1-Chlorohexane
a blotting pad
a1
agricultural use
aluminium (aluminum) (al)
aluminium-steel cable
Andelst
antigerm
antitau
areal geochemical anomaly
art design
astronomic camera
avascularization
benzyl isothiocyanate
brench
cardinal virtues
cationic macromolecular demulsifier
CB-3025
cheloniba testudinaria
chexk for tightness
cinenik
coexpression
Comitoina
cooperage stock
corpus base
cover coating
cp/m disk operating system
culinarily
delivery department
diclusters
distant from
encinctured
encored
eynes
film stock
final crushing
flanking manoeuvre
get rats
glove-and-stocking anesthesia
gravediggin
gunnerside
hanger supported shaking screen
high-speed circuit breaker(HSCB)
housej property management
HYPRO
incents
input power constraint
interactive multimedia
invariant polynomials
KKR method
leapfrogging
longum
Lonicera ciliosissima
magnetosome
Mammadov
mantle groove
manufacturing operating system
marsement
migration current
minimum password age
mink oil cream
mondos
mowner
nonradicals
obtaining a gurantor and pending trial
padda oryzivoras
pentosephosphate
pseudo-intransitive
rana clamitanss
reciprocal affinity
regulator of the market
rotational dispersion
run and run
saucer-shaped depression of vitreous body
selective jamming
set sb. on the right path
Shomolu
Signal letters.
Sir James Paget
spinal injury
springs
sri basil dance troupe
stachyophyllum
standing-eyes closed test
store management
stress-strain plot
T-shirted
Tarasivka
technostrategic
texturing variables
third category vessel
time interval bell
touch point
tricyanovinylation
twin-beddeds
urolabida suppressa
velete
waldholz
wave-power breakwater
wood refuse
woodacres
xyelids