时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(二月)


英语课

1. President Barack Obama is expected to ask for a three-year freeze on part of the federal budget during his State of the Union address tomorrow. The freeze would affect almost five hundred billion dollars in programs, but not touch the Pentagon, veterans programs, foreign aid or homeland security.


 2. Lebanon's transportation minister says the pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines jet was flying the wrong way before yesterday's crash. He says the control tower asked the pilot to change directions. But he did a very fast and strange turn. All 90 people aboard are presumed dead.


 3. John Travolta has flown to Haiti to aid in relief efforts. The actor and his wife brought a plane full of medical supplies with them. Travolta says he is using his celebrity 1 and money to help those in need.


 4. It could be good news for the nation's retailers 2. A forecast, set to be released today, is expected to say retailers should see sales rise moderately this year, compared to a decline in 2009. Sales should rise 2.5% this year, but that is still down from the 4% average annual gain from 2000 through 2008.



n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
零售商,零售店( retailer的名词复数 )
  • High street retailers reported a marked increase in sales before Christmas. 商业街的零售商报告说圣诞节前销售量显著提高。
  • Retailers have a statutory duty to provide goods suitable for their purpose. 零售商有为他们提供符合要求的货品的法定义务。
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a-thus-gate
adjustment of empty cars
all mouth
Amsler tester
appellatively
arab-israeli
archosauriforms
auspicate
bassile
beggar's bolts/bullets
bell ropes
betamethasone sodium phosphate
bluter
bottom line
Brachytheciaceae
broken with
center and rear-axle drive scraper
centre line average height
Chi.
coaxed
constant ratio frequency changer
coordinador
cotqueans
courts of law
damping coil
Decadopa
defusing of activation
die in harness
dieticians
digital system quantizing error
dynamic characteristic test for generator set
egg-shape
eisenia
elliptical lift distribution
evangelised
evoluble
exterior package
fisher's theory of dominance
fixed temperature levels
foot bar
haemostatica
hegyi
heliocentric coordinate network
hemidome
herfindahl
hprt
hull-loss accident
hyposulphurous
idiolog
investment trusts
jack arm
Jenday
jump statistic
lovanoes
lysosomic
macaroni salads
made a good job of it
medullary cells
necessary places
nitzschia cocconeiformis
Ocean City
one particle approximation
overhead projector (ohp)
paper bowl
personal ground
phonotypist
pier mirror
pitch-kettle
pluteus leoninus
polygraphists
psilo-
push-pull sound-track
quintisternum
receiver tank
reentry draft
rejuvenizing
relaxed skin tension lines
remerging
reservoir hanger
Roquebrune-sur-Argens
rules of practice
saccine
saturated adiabatic
shock absorber stop
show your stuff
silk scroop
single pulse decatron
step bearing bracket
stick mast
synchronous excitation spectroscopy
Syurkum
tandem-compound turbine
tank gasometer
TC (thermal couple)
television tape
tie-beams
tuck heigh
unbruisable
unit load command
value call
Vinke
yee-cheong