时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月


英语课

1. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is issuing a gloomy warning about the nation's economy. Bernanke says the recent financial turmoil 1 means economic activity will be subdued 3 through the rest of this year and into next year.


2. There are new details about the man behind the wheel of a tour bus that crashed in California, killing 4 eight people. Police say Quintin Watts 5 has a lengthy 6 criminal record, a history of substance abuse and a string of motor vehicle offenses 7. Investigators 8 are now trying to determine if he was impaired 9 when he lost control of the bus.


3. Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics. They won nearly a half million dollars for their theoretical advances that help explain the behaviour of the smallest particles of matter.


4. And this dramatic rescue was caught on tape. Quick-thinking police officers pulled an Indiana woman from her car just seconds before it explodes. The woman is now recovering from severe burns.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1.subdue 2 vt.


control


2.lengthy adj.


a speech, piece of writing etc that is lengthy is long and often contains too many details
a lengthy report


3.substance abuse [uncountable]n.
the habit of taking too many illegal drugs, in a way that harms your health [= drug abuse]


 



n.骚乱,混乱,动乱
  • His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
  • The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
vt.制服,使顺从,征服;抑制,克制
  • She tried to subdue her anger.她尽力压制自己的怒火。
  • He forced himself to subdue and overcome his fears.他强迫自己克制并战胜恐惧心理。
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。
(电力计量单位)瓦,瓦特( watt的名词复数 )
  • My lamp uses 60 watts; my toaster uses 600 watts. 我的灯用60瓦,我的烤面包器用600瓦。
  • My lamp uses 40 watts. 我的灯40瓦。
adj.漫长的,冗长的
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
  • The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。
n.进攻( offense的名词复数 );(球队的)前锋;进攻方法;攻势
  • It's wrong of you to take the child to task for such trifling offenses. 因这类小毛病责备那孩子是你的不对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Thus, Congress cannot remove an executive official except for impeachable offenses. 因此,除非有可弹劾的行为,否则国会不能罢免行政官员。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.受损的;出毛病的;有(身体或智力)缺陷的v.损害,削弱( impair的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Much reading has impaired his vision. 大量读书损害了他的视力。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • His hearing is somewhat impaired. 他的听觉已受到一定程度的损害。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
-phobe
ACT-F2
aigent
Altusried
annular green space
batterdasher
bigeye tuna
bladed
boundries
breath-testings
bright-coloureds
Brussels (classification) system
campout
Castelnuovo di Verona
complementary pair
confined flame
contemplations
convex and concave milling cutter
cracking initiation
cupola melting
curved armed pulley
Davies Gilbert, Mt.
descrambler
dilenser
ditetrigonal bipyramidal class
double riveted lap joint
effectuous
electromagnetic horn
end-of-message indicator
eusuchians
evangelicals
external nose
Faucigny
fire-proofing wood
fore-and-aft sail
form of reinforcement
gain the character of
geological drill pipe
graphic granite
have a tilt at someone
helionothrips cephalicus
heterotopic ossification
hwyl
induction polarizability
iodine tetraoxide
ischuretic
kassinin kinin
keep sb awake
keying by
Koluszki
lamentoes
laughen
Lorenz Milton Hart
lupini
malignant freckle
MD
media go
methoxymelphalan
mimegralla albimana galbula
minute-taking
mis-spelling
monitoring television
nipple thread turning machine
non-descript
nuclear fragmenta-tion
nystrom
object routine
order rosaless
ornithology
paneling, panelling
pineal syndrome
pre-treateds
prescriptive right
program synthesis
public crest
qualtroughs
renal plexus
Rieman surface
rocker bearing
rongeurs
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Schellback burette
second order dipyramid
self-motivation
sennelier
slide vacuum pump
social connectedness
solaced
Sporidiobolus
spring rod bearing
stock parking
thermal thunder shower
track support roller
tumefacient
tungstate radicle
Unappropriated profits
uninhibitable
unloading station
upstream-pressure controller
velocity-measuring system
wayzata
yard of ale, yard-of-ale