时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


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1. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a critic of the Iraq war, is leading a congressional delegation 1 in Baghdad, holding talks with Iraqi leaders. Her visit with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is viewed by some as a declaration the White House alone will not control Iraq policy.


2. The only US military officer charged in the Abu Ghraib scandal will be court-martialed. Lieutenant 2 Colonel Steven Lee Jordan ran the interrogation center at the Iraqi prison. He will be arraigned 3 next week on charges including cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners.


3. A kidnapping case in Arizona is now a hunt for a convicted sex offender 4. A six-year-old girl has been returned to her family but police are searching for her alleged 5 abductor, George Richard Horner. He'd been allowed to stay at the girl's home for several days.


4. How is this for special delivery? Someone sent eight yellow ducklings by priority mail to a woman in San Diego. Postal 6 workers heard the ducklings and got permission to open the box to get the babies some food and water.


 



WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. court-martial : VERB
If a member of the armed forces is court-martialled, he or she is tried in a military court.


2. lieutenant : N-COUNT
A lieutenant is a person who holds a junior officer's rank in the army, navy, marines, or air force, or in the American police force.


3. colonel : N-COUNT
A colonel is a senior officer in an army, air force, or the marines.
lieutenant colonel 陆军中校


4. maltreatment : N-UNCOUNT
Maltreatment is cruel behaviour, especially involving hurting a person or animal.


5. duckling : N-COUNT
A duckling is a young duck. ugly duckling 丑小鸭



n.代表团;派遣
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员
  • He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
  • He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
v.告发( arraign的过去式和过去分词 );控告;传讯;指责
  • He was arraigned for murder. 他因谋杀罪而被提讯。
  • She was arraigned for high treason. 她被控叛国罪。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
n.冒犯者,违反者,犯罪者
  • They all sued out a pardon for an offender.他们请求法院赦免一名罪犯。
  • The authorities often know that sex offenders will attack again when they are released.当局一般都知道性犯罪者在获释后往往会再次犯案。
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
adj.邮政的,邮局的
  • A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
  • Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。
学英语单词
acavids
act of aggression
actual gravity
aerial line map
ague
All is not lost that is in danger.
asteroid
avowers
Biābān
bread-worship
buus
cadmium permanganae
capacity goniometer
cartilages subvomerine
Cehal
citrus mealybug
combined lighting
communication common carrier
computer compatible tape
condylus lateralis tibiae
cord circuit
deploredness
dihydrovertine
dopastin
ecgonine ethyl ester benzoate,homocaine
equiconcave lens
fast ceramic reactor
fetishlike
flavinin
flood-crest travel
Fox's impetigo
gain on disposal of fixed assets
gear pair with reference centre distance
generator of a cone
half titles
Hammond postulate
hamsher
hardness ratio factor
Hi-Lo lines
highway robbery
i just wanted to say
ijimaia dofleini
impurity conduction
interpelviabdominal amputation
irsa
is at fault
jahnsite- (camnfe)
knurrs
Lepidium perfoliatum
Lewis's phenomenon
man-bird
megamitochondrion
Musquodoboit
NECAP
Norcantharidinum
not interesting or exciting
nuclear heat
number of division
ornithopods
Otocentor
pachyserica nantouensis
palanka
paraphrenitis
phosphoglyceraldehyde dehydrogenase
pittosporum formosanum hay.
pneudyne positioner
probabilistic decoding
product of linear functional
propoxylation
radio wind finding
reptile genus
sansculotted
sausage cake
sell up
Shashani R.
significant problem
skim sweeping
slotting cutter
soorma
sound i.
specialized equipment
speech clipper
SSCV (spherical steel containment vessel)
St-Michel de l'Atalaye
station-yard communication
straight bills of lading
strike the colors
synchroflash mechanism
tavern sandwich
teddy-boys
tennoes
thermoconvection
time-charactaristic
traffic responsive control
travel(l)er of drill pipe
underdrain of filter
unefs
volume (of timber)
Wellesley Islands
wowf
xylocopid
zsas