时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2005


英语课

1 Police raids in London and Rome, round up the last of the suspected attackers in last week's failed transit 1 bombings in Britain's capital.

2 Breaking with President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Frist throws his support behind the Stem-Cell Bill, saying it's a matter of science.

3 An Iraqi judge says Saddam Hussein faced questions over a quashed Shiite uprising . Elsewhere a suicide blast kills Iraqi army volunteers.

4 North Korean nuclear disarmament talks stretch into their longest round yet, but the top US envoy 2 stresses this isn't going to be easy.

5 And NASA's chief says he isn't giving up on another shuttle launch this year, despite suspending flights to fix the foam 3 insulation 4 problem.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. quash :VB=put down;quash,quashes,quashing,quashed
To quash a rebellion or protest means to stop it, often in a violent way.
eg. Troops were displaying an obvious reluctance 5 to get involved in quashing demonstrations 6.

2. uprising :N-COUNT: usu sing=rebellion, revolt;uprising,uprisings
When there is an uprising, a group of people start fighting against the people who are in power in their country, because they want to bring about a political change.
eg. ...a popular uprising against the authoritarian 7 government...
eg. Isolated 8 attacks in the north-east of the country have now turned into a full-scale uprising.

3. insulation :N-UNCOUNT;insulation
Insulation is a thick layer of a substance that keeps something warm, especially a building.
eg. High electricity bills point to a poor heating system or bad insulation.
eg. A wet suit provides excellent insulation.



n.经过,运输;vt.穿越,旋转;vi.越过
  • His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
  • The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
  • The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
v./n.泡沫,起泡沫
  • The glass of beer was mostly foam.这杯啤酒大部分是泡沫。
  • The surface of the water is full of foam.水面都是泡沫。
n.隔离;绝缘;隔热
  • Please examine the insulation of the electric wires in my house.请检查一下我屋子里电线的绝缘情况。
  • It is always difficult to assure good insulation between the electric leads.要保证两个电触头之间有良好的绝缘总是很困难的。
n.厌恶,讨厌,勉强,不情愿
  • The police released Andrew with reluctance.警方勉强把安德鲁放走了。
  • He showed the greatest reluctance to make a reply.他表示很不愿意答复。
证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威
  • Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
  • The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。
n./adj.专制(的),专制主义者,独裁主义者
  • Foreign diplomats suspect him of authoritarian tendencies.各国外交官怀疑他有着独裁主义倾向。
  • The authoritarian policy wasn't proved to be a success.独裁主义的政策证明并不成功。
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
学英语单词
Albert Bruce Sabin
antimony(iii) chloride
Artedius
bags badly chafed
Berlese funnel
binary buddy system
broker's ticket
budka
bullfightings
cadaveric ecchymouses
carbonaceous inclusion
cavetto moulding
chlorination route
cold enamel process
colonizing language
contracture of joint
controllable starting air valve
cry on my shoulder
cut one's eyeteeth on
cutify
diamond saw
dimethyl benzyl carbinol
dipole emission
disenclosed
disengaging mechanism
divergency
don't tell me
drymaria diandra
Einstein displacement
encheason
ENSPL
erithacus svecicuss
external-diameter
ferenz
fixed fin
freshly-minted
frozen off
gamma-free flux
gear helical
Gluborid
Gst.
high strength superabrasive wheel
hot-wire lighter
in denial
individual credit
Inje-gun
insert into
intrinsic conduction density
joynes
kitless
lagging steamer
lion huntness
lophothrix latipes
Ludwig's anglina
Minimum-variance frontier
monospecificity
moon phase yoke stud
mounting list
multiquarter
Nash, John
nots-for-profit
Oirase-gawa
oxygen point apparatus
parallel sections
partial bundle
personal value
Ponapea
pop-
powdery-tin skimmings
proving ring
rami cutanei cruris mediales
reorder cost
rigider
Ruffini's cylinders
saggar makers
same cross
sarcophaga caudagalli
SerDes
seriouser
set occurence
silhouette trget
single-stream
speed over the ground log
SSB-SC
steady creep rate
strong dependency
subsequent crop
succoths
sun shade
tandem satellite circuit
the article
the nature of the beast
three dimensional air model
Tianjin Mariner School
tokyo electric power
torches
trims down
triple hat
unilateral double-taxation relief
work-loom
Writer's crap
Yu, Pulau