时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:纯正地道美语


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Upper-Intermediate - Live from Washington (D0034)


A: This is Madeline Wright, for BCC News reporting live from Washington D. C. where, very shortly,the new President will deliver his inaugural 1 address.Just moments ago, the President was sworn-in to office; following the United States  Constitution the President swore an oath to faithfully execute the office of the presidency 2.


B: And what exactly is going on now, Madeline?

A: Well, Tom, true to American tradition, the band has just played “Hail to the Chief”, and the President has been honored by a 21-gun salute 3. Now we’re waiting for the President to take to the stage and deliver his speech. Tom, it’s like a who’s who of the political world here on Capital Hill, with dignitaries representing several different countries.


B: What’s the mood on the ground like, Madeline?


A: In a word, the mood here is electric. The excitement in the air is palpable; I’ve never seen a larger crowd here on Capital Hill, and the audience is shouting, crying, and embracing each other. On this, a most historic day, you can feel the hope and the excitement in the air. The 20th of January will go down in history as the . . . . Oh, Tom, it looks

like the President is about to begin. . .


C: My fellow Americans, today I stand before you...

 



adj.就职的;n.就职典礼
  • We listened to the President's inaugural speech on the radio yesterday.昨天我们通过无线电听了总统的就职演说。
  • Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.皮尔逊教授在新的阶梯讲堂发表了启用演说。
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
vi.行礼,致意,问候,放礼炮;vt.向…致意,迎接,赞扬;n.招呼,敬礼,礼炮
  • Merchant ships salute each other by dipping the flag.商船互相点旗致敬。
  • The Japanese women salute the people with formal bows in welcome.这些日本妇女以正式的鞠躬向人们施礼以示欢迎。
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abamectin
abearings
advisers
apostolus
blue helmet
blue-jeans
bond flotation
boundary violation
bulldog edition
bundle sth up
carrying party
chamber pressure versus duration curve
chocophile
coefficient of condensation
complement representation of negative number
cone-type grinder
conical lenses
continuing project
cowlist
crowngall nodule
cuntlicking
currency matching
cutting-off wheel
Cysticercusovis
cystometric
DEEC
Dereference operator
destroy
diphtheritic cystitis
distance gate
ease-up
effective tractive power
Einstein's theory for flow of suspension
embroidered picture
emerosema dispar
energy of ionization
epidemic thoracalgia
evolution of nucleic acids
exterieure
external burst flag
external chiasma
family cladoniaceaes
first stage regression
float plate
freedom of choice
frontoparietal index
gallium(Ga)
Gardunha, Sa.da
give a nod to
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grounding and lapping resistance measurement
hasmal
high closure reservoir
in one's depth
intermittent operations
internal mixing gun
interpons
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kedzierski
leave no effects
low temperature fatigue
lupanone
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megadeaths
monoscope camera
Neo Thomist
ostedes subfasciata
pantothenylcysteine
para-amino sulfuric acid
Paraleptochilus
Perciliidae
portary
pre-reduced pellet
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pro-businesses
quartz clock tester
re-instates
Rollier's radiation
rotating mirror method
severe etch virus
shake sth out
shallow sea
shiphoard radiofrequency cable
small burgh
South Bedfordshire
stationary vertical load
strophanthotriose
subclass archaeornithess
surface weather chart
sympathicotonic
table of allowances
taught course
to be brief
to look someone in the eye
trace simulation
trigeminal ganglia
unfinished
uniflagellated
Vale de Santarém
woolless