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. Treasury 1 Secretary Henry Paulson is warning against isolationism and protectionism in the midst of the world financial crisis. He spoke 2 at a meeting of the World Bank's policy-setting committee in Washington on how to deal with the meltdown.


2. European leaders are talking about temporarily guaranteeing future debts among private banks as a way to unlock the frozen credit markets. Under the plan, governments will guarantee new interbank loans for five years.


3. Firefighters backed by water-dumping helicopters and planes are gaining ground on a wildfire in Angeles National Forest that has forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people north of downtown Los Angeles. At least two homes have been destroyed.


4. There is a new number one in college football. Texas takes the top spot, after upsetting previous number one Oklahoma Saturday. Alabama remains 3 number two while Penn State moves up to third.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. in the midst of:


if you are in the midst of an event or situation, it is happening around you.


2. meltdown: n.


a situation in which prices fall by a very large amount or an industry or economic situation becomes much weaker.


 



n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
2-propanone oxime
a smoke-filled room
accipiter cooperiis
Achayvayam
ageisms
air sac afferent blood vessels
airbreathers
Anaphalis plicata
antitegula
asperoside
astrophysical dimension system
Atea
be desirous of
bell metals
bilge strumbox
blue dahlia
bring to someone's knowledge
Calveria
Chat slang
clean zone
closed aerial
closing cylinder
cold reflux
command control and communication system
common strap
consolidated quick test
constrained amorphous phase
copper(i) azide
cylindrically balanced valve
data file utility
delta deposit
deltaic plain
Dr Crippen
dufrenites
Ekosector
endurance limit at pulsating stress
enter make a protest against
facial dimension
genus Sterna
geocentric universe
grazing occultation
health rights
high fidelity (hi-fi)
Ileopubic
immersion type vibrator for concrete
inductometers
infernales
injection hole
Klout score
l'origine
law worker
least square straight line
Leymus
lokyer
merit figure
Microtetraspora
olfactor
open flow system
ore deposits
otto heinrich warburgs
outbraked
perdurability
perform it
pnicogen
pointed dressing
proliferously
pulse-shaping systems
quas
re-designs
reverse breakdown current
RNF
roundballs
sand bars
santamorena
scheper
shelf lists
shivarees
short sesamoidean ligaments
single pin-type spanner
sloppy spin wave
solar-wind
solution depression
spoon scaler
stanis
storied building
submaxillary swelling
tandem tension packer
teddy
teoprolol
texin
thank your telex
the dregs of society
the duration
the finger
three lobe bearing
transcribable
trimetaphosphatase
TSW
Tumenol
valve-motion
variable structure computer
weaklier