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


英语课
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
abdominal surgery instruments
actual element
advance-decline line
an external angle
backward chaining
bankone
bartlett pears
birch bolete
Bond albedo
Bursa infrahyoidea
by file type
caper
car-mounted microphone
casokefamide
cataclysmic separation theory
cellular fusion
chicken tacoes
chloramine treatment
cholemias
clasmatocytic
cognitive neuropsychology
cold settler
congressane
core jarring machine
cumulative total
czechoslovakias
declass
disinures
distributed message switching
double-normal solution
eborine
egg inoculation
Engel-Recklinghausen disease
episcopies
Euglenoidea
fag oneself to death
Ficoill
fire into
flow-through colorimeter
food futurist
gauze bandages
grain of meat
Hume's
hydraulic bottom-hole pump
hypersyn motor
inspiraled
ironweed
Kiamba
kw-hr
laser-Doppler-velocimetry
learning element
limiting the growth of the money supply
llgamenta apicis dentis
MACDefender
mandrels for pipe bending
maneuver
match-makers
mobile shower bath
MRAMs
naval petroleum reserves
niggery
nonflatulent
Ordiflazine
oxygenated
oystre
pantethine
parlor cars
peep-show
pharyngeal nerve
phonographists
plapp
Protonontronite
quickly drying paint
radiocarbon concentration
RAS API
red-handed
rock wreath
roentgen-
rope conveyer
screwier
seatage
Sidney Poitier
single heading flight
single side floppy disc
spiritual desertion
squaring tool
statistic of random processes
stratified one-stage cluster sampling
striga
strip someone to the skin
sun-rays
surseances
tetramethyl leucaniline
theddy
tintinnabulate
unstilled
venlin
viroplasmin
virtual private wire service
wall-drilling machine
wash trade
whorl(W)