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
acid resistant steel
adjustable riveting machine
amping
animalcular
anticoagulatory
antifluorite structure
appetisingness
arasi
arointed
associates with
bearing capacity of the sea bed
Blue Grotto
blumenau
Burns night
cadastral map series
cautery battery
centrifugal bolting mill
Cheshire County
chewing up
chillaxx
chinchy
Chondon
core assembling fixture
crankcase oil oxidation
cross pipe
current situations
cyberhero
distomedially
dougies
Dubinsky, David
ductus communis
excessive bowel sounds
fail-over
fine-bore
finite lot
first quarters
fish pond management
Foulandi
Fredericksburg series
fulcrum pin washer
fulling with water
gift matching
God be thanked!
health ball massage
Henry unit
homogeneity test for correlation
hoverheight
humblebees
icast
Indigofera hirsuta
invalid name
inverse time-lag over-current release
Lafayette College
lateral striate artery
leins
m.t.a
MAD (main assembly drawing)
magnetoreceptive
manned space weapon attack
manufacturing capacity utilization
midfellow
non-service mine
olympia (olimpia)
onebedroom
Oostethus
operation protocol
partial payment on construction contract in process
Pidlimdi
position detection method
potential time curve
pseudotubercle
psychorhythmia
quantity measurement
range accelerometer
raw material industry
rememory
ricket
running drag
santa
seismic analyzer
set off at score
sintered plastics
slave relation
slide film
storm-warning signal
subsonic fighter
swy school
syllabic nasal
Synthetic Gear Oils
Szlichtyngowa
tablestyle
teledemocracies
thrust-load
tobacco wild fire
tube-inlet orifice
type wash
underwater cinematography
Wald, Lillian D.
water souchy
winning configuration
xylonamide
zoogeographies