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


英语课

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
Adie pupil
adjustable-rate mortgage
Alcaic
anaerobic organism
angle plate jig
antik
antizyme
asench
autofocused
autophosphorylating
battery signaling
be in quarantine
bellic
best dress
boat cover
bow sextant
brass wires
bring someone down a notch or two
broadband absorber
by-pass pair
C. K. Ogden
Chamouse, Mt.de
cholecystolithiasis
conjugate velocity vector
contingent gains
cooling degree day
county hospital
curares
dandasana
deballasts
delawares
delayed criticality
dielectric body
domare
dozy
effective coupling constant
entomology
Espaillat, Prov.de
farmhold
fight corruption
first estate
flow-boundary-layer thickness
fold-back characteristic
fork bearing
frame shift
geochemistry of lithoshere
gold clause case
Google Features
gosslink
halving joint
hamulus
hemitropic tensor
hissing sound
image subtraction
investigability
Iridocapsulectomy
isykle
kgpm
lagranges
latitude-time distribution
lavar
leucaniline
line routing algorithm
loco moco
long wavelength semiconductor laser
Loopogram
mainstream culture
MDQS
midsummer-mens
multi-compartment model
neonesidea posteroacuta
niggering
non-verbal leak
not guilties
overrun safety arrestment
plastic lens
pleuropulmonal regions
porter bar
pustuliform
quasi-optical waves
quenched alloy steel rail
rap parlor
seat mile
self-lubricator
shallow burialism
shearing defect
shocks
social networking site
SQC
streamlined inserts
Suraksan
sweat something out
ta'asha
teleprocessing terminal
tensiled
throwing-ax
Titus Flavius Vespasianus
total aphasia
vestibular bulbar vein
wide-belt sanding
Windows Connect Now
yachtspeople