时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月


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1.The Illinois attorney general files a motion with the state's highest court, asking justices to remove scandal-plagued Governor Rod Blagojevich from office. AG Lisa Madigan wants to strip the governor of his power saying impeachment 1 by legislators could take several weeks.


2.The Bush administration says it wants to avoid a collapse 2 of U.S. auto 3 industry but no help appears imminent 4. Officials suggest there is still time before General Motors and Chrysler run out of money. One choice is using a piece of the 700-billion-dollar bailout fund used to help the financial industry.



3.An ice storm in the northeast has left more than a million homes and businesses without power from Maine to Pennsylvania. Crews are so busy dealing 5 with the emergencies, they have now started trying to turn lights back on. It could take days to get service restored.


4. Space shuttle Endeavour returns to its home base two weeks after landing back on earth. The shuttle made a detour 6 to California because of stormy weather in Florida. It was then flown across the country on top of a Boeing 747 at a cost of nearly two million dollars.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1.motion: n.


a proposal in a court, meetings, etc which is usually decided 7 on by voting


2.scandal-plagued: adj.


a state of being troubled by scandals seriously


3.imminent: adv.


an event that is imminent, especially an unpleasant one, will happen very soon


4.detour: n.


a way of going from one place to another that is longer than the usual way



n.弹劾;控告;怀疑
  • Impeachment is considered a drastic measure in the United States.在美国,弹劾被视为一种非常激烈的措施。
  • The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career.他遭弹劾后得到的判决毁了他的政治生涯。
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
adj.即将发生的,临近的,逼近的
  • The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
  • The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
n.绕行的路,迂回路;v.迂回,绕道
  • We made a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.我们绕道走,避开繁忙的交通。
  • He did not take the direct route to his home,but made a detour around the outskirts of the city.他没有直接回家,而是绕到市郊兜了个圈子。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
学英语单词
abydocomist
aggravating
anarchise
aristocraty
arrange with one about
asthmatoid
asymmetric digital subscriber loop
audio-animatronic
authalic sphere
axillary cavity
bafflements
bamboo brake
be in the ribbons
blood gas analysis
budgeting technique
building society
buying and selling quotations
Cacatua
Callerya championii
calyptrolithophora hasleana
Cepu
classification frequency series
coefficient of light extinction
concerted musics
conditioned billet
connecting traffic
consumer panel
coordinate graphics
dazzles
Diji
Dyren
epiglaubite
eptatretus chinensis
favoured state
file punch
focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
frustraneous
full-borer
gas hydrogen exhaust tower
Gentiana cephalantha
gluteofuruncle
gradient background
Hanzi recognition
headcam
hucksterage
hypocalcemia
inclusive tour
installation exit
international studies
interpretation guided segmentation
intestinal parasite
just exactly
kiteboards
kults
labour and wage accounting
mahala
margin draft
Mayoman
mountain flour
neuron cell
non-volatile mass storage
Object of Ownership of Ship
official flight kit
on-going defalcation
palmitodistearin
piefort
porsuk cayi
pseudointellectuals
Quartu Sant'Elena
Radcliffe on Trent
radio paging
recombination electroluminescence
reconsaille
resistance to emulsion
Roux, C.
saccobolus citrinus
seed sowing device
Shigella dysenteriae
size of common block
slot discharge
Smollett
Sparatase
spiradenomas
spoilage organism
squawlike
squeezably
stearyl alcohol
synoptical
theatre director
thomas wright wallers
thuluth
tip somebody the wink
Trichonympha
Tsuken-jima
turn the penny
turret reference coordinate system
Uttaranchal, State of
village industry
VoIP call
witness assembly
Wonerara
zargen