时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年6月


英语课
1. Senator Ted 1 Kennedy is out of surgery at Duke University. His doctor says a procedure to treat his cancerous brain tumor 2 was successful. The 76-year-old now faces chemotherapy and radiation to treat the malignant 3 glioma, a lethal 4 type of brain tumor.

2. A Texas judge has placed some tight restrictions 5 on the parents of 400 children who are being allowed to return to their polygamist compound. Among other things, the parents have to allow unannounced visits from the state.


3. Neil Entwistle arrived at a Boston-area courthouse for the beginning of his murder trial under heavy security. It's been nearly two years since he was charged with killing 6 his wife and nine-month-old daughter.


4. Space shuttle Discovery performed a slow back flip 7 and then docked at the International Space Station. It's delivering a massive lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. chemotherapy: n.


Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.


2. glioma: n.【医】神经胶质瘤


A tumor originating in the neuroglia of the brain or spinal 8 cord.


3. lethal: adj.


If you describe something as lethal, you mean that it is capable of causing a lot of damage.


4. Buzz Lightyear: 巴斯光年



vt.翻晒,撒,撒开
  • The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
  • She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
n.(肿)瘤,肿块(英)tumour
  • He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
  • The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。
adj.恶性的,致命的;恶意的,恶毒的
  • Alexander got a malignant slander.亚历山大受到恶意的诽谤。
  • He started to his feet with a malignant glance at Winston.他爬了起来,不高兴地看了温斯顿一眼。
adj.致死的;毁灭性的
  • A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
  • She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则)
  • I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
  • a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
vt.快速翻动;轻抛;轻拍;n.轻抛;adj.轻浮的
  • I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书,看来似乎很有趣。
  • Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
adj.针的,尖刺的,尖刺状突起的;adj.脊骨的,脊髓的
  • After three days in Japan,the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.在日本三天,就已经使脊椎骨变得富有弹性了。
  • Your spinal column is made up of 24 movable vertebrae.你的脊柱由24个活动的脊椎骨构成。
学英语单词
aldersons
alpha particle scattering
as gentle as a lamb
auntients
auriongold
auto-covariance matrix
back door selling
bleezing
bonsal
bosomiest
c-n-o cycle
Campylocentrum
canaliculus chord? tympani
Caodaist
cardiac valve
cavilon
CD tower
chinati
chinostrengite
column Latin square
commutater end head felt pad
contribution to
crystalline-amorphous transition
cue someone in
dermatoglyphs
dermochelyidaes
diadematoid type
discolored water
do one's worst
double level bridge
drag bridle
DrugScope
electrode spacing
endochondral
ergotaman
FKP
French arch
fresh water capacity
fused glass cell
fuzzy picture
goomah
grain growht
granular cell type ameloblastoma
Hatko
Hymenophyllum
IDF (induced draft fan)
IMTG
inspection and repair of buildings
internal ionization
ion (ic) exchange
jurally
Kaimganj
king's pawn
Kuznetsovskiy
labyrinthine fistula
lambda insertion vector
Lidoxide
magicity
Manxness
market transaction
Moldovan monetary unit
moon-viewing
movable quadrat
multiple character request
Neobiotic
next voyage
non-ground neutral system
nonspontaneous
North Fox Island
objectivistic decision criteria
orange-and-blue
orbit the earth
pancake days
parity nonconservation
PFMT
physiobiological
pl.i
plaster cement
pond damselfly
post-date
posterior-root
proper affinity
property transfer
purification plant
repair workshop
reunite with
rubber - base paint
screwed down
Simuay
soap plates cooling plant
spiraled
stock redemption fund
super high frequency (shf)
synthetic fibre knitwear
tadese
talmudism
toner cartridge
train consist
uer
undathem
underemphasizes
workman's protective face-shield