时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月


英语课

1. Continental 1 flight 128 was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami after hitting severe turbulence 2 during an overnight flight from Brazil to Texas. At least 26 people on board were injured, four of them seriously.



2. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs says the president has committed to not raise taxes on families who are earning less than a quarter million dollars. The reassurance 3 came after Treasury 4 Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested Sunday that the administration was not ready to rule out a tax hike to lower the federal deficit 5.



3. Prosecutors 6 say a grand jury has indicted 7 Plaxico Burress on weapons charges. The New York Giants star shot himself in the thigh 8 at a Manhattan nightclub last winter. The indictment 9 charged the 31-year-old football player with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment.



4. And it's a new gadget 10 in Japan that is helping 11 people walk. Weighing about 22 pounds, these machines pick up signals from the brain. The makers 12 say they can help people who are injured or otherwise have trouble getting around.



adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的
  • A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
  • The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
n.喧嚣,狂暴,骚乱,湍流
  • The turbulence caused the plane to turn over.空气的激流导致飞机翻转。
  • The world advances amidst turbulence.世界在动荡中前进。
n.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • He drew reassurance from the enthusiastic applause.热烈的掌声使他获得了信心。
  • Reassurance is especially critical when it comes to military activities.消除疑虑在军事活动方面尤为关键。
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
n.大腿;股骨
  • He is suffering from a strained thigh muscle.他的大腿肌肉拉伤了,疼得很。
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
n.起诉;诉状
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
  • They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。
n.小巧的机械,精巧的装置,小玩意儿
  • This gadget isn't much good.这小机械没什么用处。
  • She has invented a nifty little gadget for undoing stubborn nuts and bolts.她发明了一种灵巧的小工具用来松开紧固的螺母和螺栓。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
accredit the negotiators
alignment marker
allantoido-angiopagous teratism
aluminium beads collector
aminate
arrivism
ASKF-2601
balantiasis
basic sulfate
bedrenches
bocht
brokeback mountain
burn unit
Camacuio
cheddahs
cinctures
Codonacanthus
commission for government bond business
common accumulation fund
common crime
conversive heating
corsetting
cowing
criminal-history
crystal tea
dahlums
de broglies
digging you
double modal
equiangle projection
examining endoscope
father lashers
fayerweather
feedwater pipe
finger citron
Get the monkey off your back
GPKA
hook valley
hydraulic windlass
immersible switchgear
inorganic stereochemistry
internal burned brick
iscas
kiss asses
laevogyrate
land utilization factor
lis alibi pendens
love me do
Maserti
metallacycle
Mogherini
moleomancy
natrium nitroferrocyanatum
nightwatchwomen
non-air commercial
non-metallic sheath
nonnormalized design
outstretching
page reader
Pohjanmaa
popping pressure
preapplications
preinstructs
prepubescent
pusher ram
Rhopalomyzus lonicerae
rhythmists
Rusian
Schönheide
selfexpression
shear force feedback method
shipment advice
Sinosenecio dryas
situation phase
special events
sportswork
spotted owl
star-forming region
stetson
straw ticking
submandibular space
Summit Lake
surface subband
sutler
tape data processing system
television pickup tubes
Texas toasts
thiochrome
tightly coupled multiprocessing
time data
tow-row
trough spillway
tulostomaceaes
underclassmen
unprofessionalisation
uterine bruit
vertical deflection mirror
video database
water jacketed test cell
wet-plate
witch-
Zwönitz