时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


英语课

今天我们要学的词组是hot seat。 Hot seat在美国俚语里指处死刑用的电椅。Hot seat也指困窘的处境,尴尬的局面。比如公司连续亏损,总裁的压力很大, "The CEO found himself in the hot seat after another bad quarter."


还比如美国副总统切尼的前办公厅主任Lewis Libby被控在中情局特工身份泄露案的调查过程中撒谎。 法院开庭审理Lewis Libby一案的时候,许多政府要人不得不出庭回答问题,其中许多人处境尴尬, "Many will be on the hot seat during the trial." 今天我们学习的词组是hot seat ...




 



学英语单词
18-Crown-6
7-Dehydrostigmaslerol
aeginetloide
alcoes
astomate
axillary sheath
Balkh
baudelaireans
bitstream
Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index
Bugstomper
caged
CD-ROM disk drive
chairpersonship
christakos
ciliary meridian
colerain
collegiate system
conquerings
constringences
continuous flow production procee
conventional breaks
countermandments
coupon site
Croatist
cryopanel array
cybercurrency
dabber
dismanned
drainage-basins
elende
end product quality
falsish
filler cap
finite distributed lags
foreign-registered vessel
Four Quartets
free-ranging
GNBM
guarantee deposits and margins paid
Helsingor
home-owner
hopper slide
initial probability
kinetic equation
Kivukoni
laser Kerr cell
Lobinanine
loss of amenity
lower-than-expected
made your mark
magazine features
magination
metamycin
method for arbitration
monologian
Nevskiaceae
New Ageists
nickel pollution
non-deforming alloy
non-interference
nonabsorptive
offshore hook-up
output specification code
patterns of foreign trade
Poitier
Pouxeux
pressure-tendency equation
raggamuffin
Reichmsnn's disease
rimy
rock-boot
saw up
sense of organization
short shorts
silt-determination measure
smart room
sonnenfeld
steam locomotives
stereospecific synthesis
sublining
superset
Sysmäjärvi
tazawa
TCE (transmission control element)
technetium-99m albumin macroaggregated m
the sharts
thermodynamic transition
thraulite (hisingerite)
ticlid
Touch type
Trocholite
troy pound
twin segment
unpaid tax
valve actuating device
vectras
walking sprinkler
Wastwater
William Hoover
worsted cheviot
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