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
agger nasi cells
Aglauros
agromyzids
akinrinade
aman r.
angustior
arytaenoid
balance of payments effect
biforne
bonwit
brandewine
callithumpian
capelets
carbon monoxide hemoglobin
castleman disease
celebs
check-valve plunger guide
closed town
coaxial peak pulse power meter
craig hd.
crescent dike
crown tool
cry off
Davy lamps
deceue
decoding circuit
deep level transient spectroscopy
deobfuscations
DRAF1
ent-acorane
equatorial aperture
Fada-N'Gourma
false flagging
Fimbristylis autumnalis
fitzalan
fixed command control (regulator control)
for the domestic market
fronthead
fuse socket
half-term
handbag tag
happy chance
haulster
have a game with sb
hornworks
hydrocyclone separator
hylophagous
hyraceum
imperfect fungus
indirect(-method) heat balance
inner-hearing
isleib
isografted
jugulars
ketoamine
Labarraque
lion's skin
long period value
metal hardness
mould and die copying machine
ndomadyiri
negative availability
Neuffen
overall national strength
pedal cyclist
polydeoxyribocytidylic acid
popularise
postdatings
psychrometrically
pump-frequency
push button flame ignitor
Putsonderwater
rich and mighty
ritmo
salamanders
scaptomyza (parascaptomyza) substrigata
scory
segmental-bed reactor
Sinapis alba L.
single plane mean bore
Siuruanjoki
soft tops
split-log
statoliths
subtie
take a photo of
telegraphic speech
tilesets
torsion deformation
tracking and telemetry data
transcontinental
transfigured
Trombicula walchi
Tzermiado
ultraluxurious
underlook
wage slavery
weedkillers
worse still
yajein
Z-drugs