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
akses
amphibolic pathway
analogue input/output unit
anelastic behaviour
anti-money laundering
Arabically
at short intervals
auditor's final evaluation
average sample run length
Avramova, Sedlovina
back harness
Back to Back LC
bituminous froth
blank-off
boiler-suit
boltonite
by-pass air duct
Campina Grande do Sul
capillary potential gradient
caponata
celsius (centigrade) degrees (c)
chelonian reptile
chimney bond
communication service
continuous trace camera
control booth
courageousness
cushion frame
dead device
Dembī Dolo
detail operating schedule
Donald Ducked
earlierize
emulsion resin
enteropathy
environmental engineering laboratory
forprise
front-mounted implement
gas governor
gas shale
Gay, John
general-obligation bond
george catlett marshalls
germinal area
gonzalez-torres
graded index optic fiber
gravirecepter
hand operated bending roll
heckhounds
increment speed
indicator disc
individual private ownership
iris pseudacoruss
isolation bladder
kabala
Kozina
labial line
lay away plan
Lie, Trygve (Halvdan )
liebemeister's groove
lobpries
London Grain Futures Market
make conjectures upon
manure loading box
mastosarcoma
mechanical housing
miltonberger
missed command probability
motion-opposing
nature environment
neutralized states
non reproducible goods
non-loaded
OTSG (once-through steam generator)
paidest
parallel fold
parole
passbook saving withdrawal
poison seta
psychophysics of hearing
quotient-difference algorithm ( q.d.a.)
race recording statute
Ras el Ksar
refracting index
reject box
sheltertrench
sliding throttle valve
splashing out
strain compensation
summer plumage
Sunday Mirror
termagancies
traction orthodontic treatment
unfused
utilitarian
Van John
votive mass
water-measurer
weather working days
well-arrayed
zero point fluctuation
zworykins