时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课

1.New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is giving late-night comedians 1 plenty of material, but in political circles no one is laughing. The State Assembly leader says if Spitzer doesn't resign over a call-girl scandal, he is ready to call for an impeachment 2. Spitzer is holed up in his New York apartment.


 


2.Barack Obama and John McCain are the big winners in yesterday's Mississippi presidential primary. Obama won almost all the black vote but just a quarter of the white vote. He and Hillary Clinton are now focusing on the big delegate count in Pennsylvania where the primary is still six weeks away.


 


3.Andre Carson is the new Congressman 3 for Indiana. The grandson of the late Congresswoman Julia Carson won a special election to succeed her. Carson becomes only the second Muslim ever elected to Congress.


 


4.Dawn Wells is best known for playing Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island". But the proverbial girl next door is now on probation 4 in Idaho. She was allegedly caught with marijuana in her car when she was pulled over for erratic 5 driving last October.


 



n.喜剧演员,丑角( comedian的名词复数 )
  • The voice was rich, lordly, Harvardish, like all the boring radio comedians'imitations. 声音浑厚、威严,俨然是哈佛出身的气派,就跟无线电里所有的滑稽演员叫人已经听腻的模仿完全一样。 来自辞典例句
  • He distracted them by joking and imitating movie and radio comedians. 他用开玩笑的方法或者模仿电影及广播中的滑稽演员来对付他们。 来自辞典例句
n.弹劾;控告;怀疑
  • Impeachment is considered a drastic measure in the United States.在美国,弹劾被视为一种非常激烈的措施。
  • The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career.他遭弹劾后得到的判决毁了他的政治生涯。
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
n.缓刑(期),(以观后效的)察看;试用(期)
  • The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱,而且将他缓刑察看一年。
  • His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后,他的工资增加了800元。
adj.古怪的,反复无常的,不稳定的
  • The old man had always been cranky and erratic.那老头儿性情古怪,反复无常。
  • The erratic fluctuation of market prices is in consequence of unstable economy.经济波动致使市场物价忽起忽落。
学英语单词
account receivable program
acises
aerial device
air-hardening lime
ALPURCOM (all purpose communication system)
antimutiny
arbies
Attach Title
attest function
beerenauslese
Bohyeonsan
Buckle my Shoe
buttermilk biscuit
centrifugalized
citrus psorosis
city-republic
concert-masters
dentalium elephantium
desulforedoxin
direct-reduction ironmaking
discriminating projection
dowdeswell
drag suction dredge
eighty-sixed
embolia cutis medicamentosa
error correcting parser
even state
exornate
F. R. C. P.
felix culpas
field-induced
follow-up date
foxtrots
Galium salwinense
gangrenous pharyngitis
generalized polykays
genus gleichenias
genus Hypsiglena
get me wrong
Glen Alpine
gorr
hawkstone
highresistance
hydrophilc colloid
immanant
kirbeh
lead borate
left handed fault
local service airline
loose color
Lumber-rule
magnetic blowout arrester
mass splicing
meagred
metallification
monetary institution
muttonheaded
neu'ropathol'ogist
nonamyloidogenic
opprobre
ostankinoes
packet transfer
paphos
pars distilis
Pharaoh's rat
piercement
power shears
primary tooth
primitive color
priss
Rathke
rus
Scurrula ferruginea
selection committee
shift length
single cross
Sinomania
sixtieth
Souk-Khemis-du-Sahel
spraydecoration
subdrilling
subfacet
subpool queue block
sum assured
supersonic turbine
sviatonossite(andradite sodasyenite)
swap market
tages
TCWG (telecommunication working group)
the law of regional national autonomy
Thornthwaite moisture index
thumb plane
transition band
transmutative force
ultrasonicated
utible
valtage following
vox populi vox dei
wage price policy
wing-tip aileron
yellow state