时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月


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1. Polices say they found the body of a woman recently convicted of running a DC prostitution ring .Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found hanging in a shed near her mother’s Florida home this morning. The 52-year-old left a suicide note, but details aren’t being released.

2. A student was killed when this school bus collided with a dump truck. And a dozen others were hurt in the crash in northern Kentucky. It’s still not clear what caused the wreck 1 on a curvy stretch of highway.


3. A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton is withdrawing his endorsement 2 of Hillary Clinton for president. Joe Andrew says he is now backing Barack Obama and he’s urging other Democrats 3 to do the same.


4. Uma Thurman testified she was completely freaked out by a card her alleged 4 stalker gave her through her assistant. The card had a picture of an open grave and a man standing 5 on the edge of a razor blade. Jack 6 Jordan is accused of following and trying to contact the 38-year-old actress from early 2005 until late last year.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. shed: n.


a small building, often made of wood, used especially for storing things



n.失事,遇难;沉船;vt.(船等)失事,遇难
  • Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
  • No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
n.背书;赞成,认可,担保;签(注),批注
  • We are happy to give the product our full endorsement.我们很高兴给予该产品完全的认可。
  • His presidential campaign won endorsement from several celebrities.他参加总统竞选得到一些社会名流的支持。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
学英语单词
-osmia
AAFI
acoustic hyperesthesia
Agonum
analog interface
anionotropies
applied nuclear physicochemistry
audy
bill of right
blood-gel meat
bluebank
brisk business
broad-winged hawks
bulla prootica
Captieux
channel c validity signal
cheat grass
cheilanthess
circular milling machine
colo(u)r reaction
comcons
communication serviceability facilities
congestive diathesis
continuous-echo
crime of abortion
cutting plates
dessuss
dimethylacetylenedicarboxylate
disk storage technology
dispatch a mission to
divariant equilibrium
draw bar clevis
El Morrito
error recovery program interface byte
ethoxy-dithioformic acid
exhaust-manifold port
extra cover
ferruginous sand
Fred Zinnemann
fundamental fixed point
get from
gile
gripey
gyrovagues
haliplus sharpi
harmel
hearsaiest
hebetudo
His bundle electrogram
hockey-stick
infraspinate
Junqueirópolis
Kigach
loan-to-value ratio
lower end
medvene
mitochondrial outer membrane
molar mass
multi-purpose rice transplanter
multiple roles
oceanlike
on-column detector
Onychocamptus
opulus
Parabarium
paramours
partially filled energy band
patent examination
peasantly
personal hereditament
pinanediol
pinches off
pisiformis
plus sense
Prochorov
protective voltage transformer
quibbler
radiation-induced autoxidation
rate center
rosamultin
route the goods
seagoing
secondary constraints
self study
shaker-upper
ship piping
Sisoazcini
sliding plate
spirits of hartshorn
subduings
Sultacetamide
supplier credit
teaty
toy making factory
trail-builder
translation of rigid body
uterine biopsy punch
Viburnum dentatum
wash tub pipe
weetabixes
windowframe
zelene