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
aerospace medicines
aircraft simulation
amdroid
assault life
b.p.d
Babycham
bakable
balance reading
Bettona
bolted-type separable connector
capital of Jamaica
Cinchona succirubra
collection of random event
colour sensibility
Consolea
content-addressable basis
copynere
cowlhead
creaming power
cubensis
cultural-familial mental retardation
cycloreversion reaction
Cylindrolobus
cymobarbatol
decorative porcelain
deodourant
dimethylfuran
eddy formation
electric arc welded joint
elmt.
entropy index
equisignal
fawney
forty-niners
French cell press
function as
Garrisdale Point
Godard
gravitational collector
heat sensitive
imperfect competitive market
inquiery
intra-ureteral
jaw of the chair
junk-grades
La Tournette
laminal flow
Lammhult
least preferred coworker scale (lpc scale)
loss of availability
Lypholyte
macrolactams
meal-skipping
mechanical loom
mequitazine
microohms
missing-person
Munsell color notation
natural gas processing
Ninja Pinch
non-return-to-zero inverse
non-swapable
NPDU
Numidian crane
o.r.b.
one-lever
optic chiasms
outfind
parking brake magnet apply relay
PEP/LVET
perchedspring
phenacetolin
prelubricated bearing
radiotopography
Rastafarian
rauen
reboundeth
redwood-baringer water finder
sexperimenting
six-gilled sharks
skin-surface temperature
SOCCENT
soft-boiled eggs
sphaceloma tsujii hara
steering moment for keeping a given control
streptogramins
Tamarix leptostachya
Taraxacum orientale
theory of baryspheric origin
theory of consumer's choice
Thākurpur
tiger-wood
TinyFugue
Torfufell
uniteth
unmassaged
vargo
volvics
wet mixture
white-wash
winpac