时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(七)月


英语课

1. Police in Illinois say they have evidence linking this man to eight murders over the past week. They are warning the public that Nicholas Sheley is armed and dangerous. And they are offering a 25-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to his arrest.


2. General Motors is still the nation's leading automobile 1 seller but its perch 2 has been greatly lowered. GM beat out Toyota to maintain the top spot but at the same time, suffered an 18% drop in sales for the month of June.


3. Mongolia is under a four-day state of emergency after thousands of protesters stormed the headquarters of the ruling party. They were demonstrating against alleged 3 fraud in this past weekend's parliamentary elections. Police used tear gas and water cannons 4 to beat them back.


4. A couple of stars may be born soon. Angelina Jolie has checked into a French hospital where she's due to give birth to twins. She and partner Brad Pitt already have four children.


WORDS IN THE NEWS



1. perch: n.


You can refer to a high place where someone is sitting as their perch.


2. storm: v.


to suddenly attack and enter a place using a lot of force.


3. State of emergency: 紧急状态


A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or order government agencies to implement 5 emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale for suspending civil liberties. Such declarations usually come during a time of natural disaster, during periods of civil unrest, or following a declaration of war.


 



n.汽车,机动车
  • He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
  • The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
n.栖木,高位,杆;v.栖息,就位,位于
  • The bird took its perch.鸟停歇在栖木上。
  • Little birds perch themselves on the branches.小鸟儿栖歇在树枝上。
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
n.加农炮,大炮,火炮( cannon的名词复数 )
  • Cannons bombarded enemy lines. 大炮轰击了敌军阵地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • One company had been furnished with six cannons. 某连队装备了六门大炮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(pl.)工具,器具;vt.实行,实施,执行
  • Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划,除非你能完成这项计划。
  • The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
学英语单词
a red-letter day
ageostrophic circulation
APSP
be like a fish out of water
bozell
Bradl.
capping formation
card checking
caudal bristle
centrifugal spinning pot
ceratocystis fimbriata
contigue
Courmelles
crown flashing
Cyatheaceae
dccs
DoH
drawdown curve of groundwater
Dutchman's land
echo-peak
elevated temperatures
employee-leasing
equitable claimant
erection center
factory acceptance test specification
farm-bred
ferroans
fibre designer
fission gas pressure
fixed fire alarm system
fixed sight
flagellar antigen
folded horn
fovea costalis transversalis
fruit squashes
Gatehouse of Fleet
glamming
gp49A
gryllodes sigillatus
gulping
handheld drills
head of malleus
heart wheel
human embryonic stem cell
human habitat
hyperlipemic
impulse sealee
indurance
ivac
je
Juupajoki
kellin
kooza
linguistic aesthetics
lost in the shuffle
match-fitnesses
mounce potential
multiseasonal
mutual inhibition
Native American
non-egocentric
nongolf
nutshell
OLED TV
omnicardiogram
operational rule
out-of-roundness of shell
payment by cheque
poison
potassium biphthalate
power constraint
Progymnospermopsida
prune-juice sputum
psyllid
quadrature subroutine
raising of index
rhein
road milling and grooving machine
self-justifier
set squares
skimminess
spring-loaded drill colter
stained paper
stay proceedings
Stictocardia
strained castings
strategetic
Terebratellidina
Thamnocalamus cuspidatus
three dimensional graph
total down-time
Ulmus tonkinensis
unpublick
unsecured debentures
vector cardiogram
Verkhniy Balygychan
vertical-axis rotor-type wind turbine
waste-paper basket
water-head accumulator
window object
winter hazel
wlite