时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2014(二)月


英语课

 1. An ice storm gripped the winter-wary South Wednesday, knocking out power of hundreds thousands people over a wide swath of the region.  Forecasters are warning the worst of potentially "catastrophic" storm is yet to come that moves up to the east coast to Wednesday night and to Thursday. 


 
2. A federal jury has convicted former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin on charges he accepted bribe 1 , free trip and other favors from contractors 2 in exchange for  millions of dollars in city work while he was in office. Nagin  could face decades in prison. No sentencing data has been set.  
 
3. American Kaitlyn Farrington captured gold in the woman's Olympic snowboarding Halfpipe final Wednesday, edging out the defending champion Torah Bright and US teammate Kelly Clark for the title. The victory gave US just its third gold medal of the games.

n.贿赂;v.向…行贿,买通
  • He tried to bribe the policeman not to arrest him.他企图贿赂警察不逮捕他。
  • He resolutely refused their bribe.他坚决不接受他们的贿赂。
n.(建筑、监造中的)承包人( contractor的名词复数 )
  • We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后,接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
abortive treatment
absorption systems
account payable stretching
acentric-dicentric translocation
acoustic-microwave radar
ADPSC (automatic data processing service center)
Ajibarang
atleticoes
bamboo effect
barriers to trade
beach stability
brookweeds
bucket with aperture
budapests
busted-up
carpetbombing
chlortetracyclines
circular section of a quadric
climbing-film oil nozzles
combined immunodeficiency disease
datasource
dialoguist
DNS Domain Name System
doubletitlo match
Dover, Treaty of
edaphosaurus
educational endowment
elbowlike
energy reserves
executive-branch
external-burning
facility design criteria
fagmaster
family-policy
fight-to-the-death
filter-sterilizer
give someone a lot of house
global virtual protocol
go to a show
going-concern assumption
hanrahan
Heteropappus crenatifolius
hooked groin
hottinger
hydromel
impartible estate
inorganic zinc paint
involvedness
jaw of the vice
kennes
Killian incision
Lagidum
large-scale weather situation
level tube axis
life cycle plan
lift screw
load cycle test
lumbocostal point
milons
minicomputer cross compilation
mishkind
mithra
multi-aperture electrode
multifocal lens implant
municipal
Nesque
nesting of else clause
no mean something
nonvictims
orographic rainfall
other insurance permitted
over consolidation
photomultifier with low noise
phytoclimatology
point-four
Pomerania B.(Pomorze, Zatoka)
prepreerence
president george w. bushes
pulsator air jig
revised Theil inequality coefficient
sandler
silent-block mounting
spare wheel cover
spherized
stram-
strike someone from the rolls
Thank Goodness It's Friday
the ebb and flow of life
thermit crucible
thorneys
transferred tripping
trunk call service
twizzles
ulcis
unitary character
Vereya
wages per hour
warp let-off motion
Weiss' reflex
whinch
wickups
x-ray thickness gage