时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(八)月


英语课

1. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili says he has signed a ceasefire agreement with Russia. But he didn't appear enthusiastic about it. He says it protects the former Soviet 1 Republic's interests despite concessions 2 to Moscow.
 
2. The kidnapping suspect who calls himself Clark Rockefeller is actually a German man who came to the US when he was young and later adopted several aliases 3. That's according to the FBI who pulled fingerprints 4 off decades-old immigration papers.


3. An intern 5 with a North Carolina prosecutor's office has been arrested and charged with stealing documents in the killing 6 of a pregnant Marine 7. Robert Sharpe is accused of taking files, reports and documents that are part of the prosecution 8 of Marine Corporal (Cpl.) Cesar Laurean. Laurean is accused of murdering 20-year-old Corporal (Cpl.) Maria Lauterbach.


4. And check out China's two new Olympic mascots 10: the giant panda twins were born on the second day of the Beijing Games. Officials say they hope the birth of the two males brings luck to China's Olympic athletes.



WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online


1. alias:  n.
a false name, usually used by a criminal.


2. mascot 9:  n.
A mascot is an animal, toy, or symbol which is associated with a particular organization or event, and which is thought to bring good luck.


 



adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
n.(尤指由政府或雇主给予的)特许权( concession的名词复数 );承认;减价;(在某地的)特许经营权
  • The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工,公司将不得不作出一些让步。
  • The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
n.别名,化名( alias的名词复数 )
  • Can you allow the user to enter aliases for the longer entries? 可以允许用户为过长的文字选择别名吗? 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • The criminal has several aliases. 该罪犯有数个化名。 来自辞典例句
n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 )
  • Everyone's fingerprints are unique. 每个人的指纹都是独一无二的。
  • They wore gloves so as not to leave any fingerprints behind (them). 他们戴着手套,以免留下指纹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.拘禁,软禁;n.实习生
  • I worked as an intern in that firm last summer.去年夏天我在那家商行实习。
  • The intern bandaged the cut as the nurse looked on.这位实习生在护士的照看下给病人包扎伤口。
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。
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
n.起诉,告发,检举,执行,经营
  • The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
  • He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
n.福神,吉祥的东西
  • The football team's mascot is a goat.足球队的吉祥物是山羊。
  • We had a panda as our mascot.我们把熊猫作为吉详物。
n.吉祥物( mascot的名词复数 )
  • One of the mascots was the platypus. 吉祥物一是鸭嘴兽。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Information on all things Olympic, including logos, mascots, venues,and bid candidates. 所有事情奥林匹克,包括的标识语,吉祥物,地点,和出价候选人的信息。 来自互联网
学英语单词
a love match
absolute hypermetropia
acetogenin
aesculapiuss
agnolotti
air saltpeter
ancylostomatidaes
Asats
B6
be rich with
Behima
biochemistry of ageing
bubble coalescence
bundled software
calculating instrument
capitalutilization
cedron
cement production
coefficient of offset
contact insecticide
Contergan
counterreaction
culicoides (trithecoides) tenuipalpis
cutter link
destarched
ecology of vision
empaneling
empty can
evictable
Exide ironclad battery
favour ... with
file security
forest ranger
galvanized steel wash boiler
glenlivet
go over to the enemy
goldtops
grammar category
hairy around the heels
homographies
horse-races
improved upon
indirectly controlled variable
instantaneous maximum wind
Jaborandiblatter
Kamuriki-yama
knife-edge load
lineae splendens
load-on
loulou
maclear
meadow clary
medullary lamina
metal-frameds
Mother Superior
mother-in-law style
mowre
multicentre reaction
musculi intertransversarii mediales
network integrity
New Internet
non matched data
nonxenophobic
Numanoids
number of taper
osseous cell
Pandan Kechil, Sungai
PB89
play computer games
Plumbomalachite
polishing liquid
pop-singers
presence and absence equalizer
pseudophotoesthesia
PSUV
pulvis acaciae et tragacanthae
pump-back storage
re-experiences
rear projection tv
recomputed
rhodoleucus
right-reading
royal marriage
sholes
slot man
still-growings
sucramin
sulcus of calcaneus
supersonic communication
Taluma
technical economic investigation
threshold friction
tributary arm
under-doing
vector quantity
viscera-state doctrine
water emulsifiable paste
water ingress
weed-grown
work completed forms
zinc cadmium sulfides