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


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1.Markets go on a wild ride, with the Dow going back and forth 1 between positive and negative territory all day, dropping nearly 700 points early on before closing down by more than 100 points. This has been the Dow’s worst week ever.


2.President Bush says it will take time, but the government’s financial rescue plan is big enough to steady the markets. The world’s major economists 2 are now huddling 3 in Washington, trying to thaw 4 credit markets and end the global panic.


3.Finland’s Martti Ahtisaari wins the Nobel Peace Prize, the former president of Finland hails for his peace- building efforts around the world. But some wanted Chinese human rights activists 5 singled out for their protests in Tibet.


4.In North Korea, a colorful show of mass choreography, this performance marking the 63rd anniversary of the ruling party, featuring almost 100,000 participants, many students and children, but no sign of leader Kim Jong Il , whose health has been questioned by the west.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1.huddle 6 vi.


American English to sit or stand with a small group of people in order to discuss something privately:
The executive board huddled 7 to discuss the issue.


2.thaw (out) phrasal verb
if your body thaws 8 out, or if you thaw it out, it gets warmer until it is a normal temperature again
thaw something ↔ out
He held his hands in front of the fire to thaw them out.


3.single somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verb
to choose one person or thing from among a group because they are better, worse, more important etc than the others
I don't see why he should be singled out for special treatment.


4.choreography[uncountable]n.
the art of arranging how dancers should move during a performance


 



adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.(使)融化,(使)变得友善;n.融化,缓和
  • The snow is beginning to thaw.雪已开始融化。
  • The spring thaw caused heavy flooding.春天解冻引起了洪水泛滥。
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vi.挤作一团;蜷缩;vt.聚集;n.挤在一起的人
  • They like living in a huddle.他们喜欢杂居在一起。
  • The cold wind made the boy huddle inside his coat.寒风使这个男孩卷缩在他的外衣里。
挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
  • We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。
n.(足以解冻的)暖和天气( thaw的名词复数 );(敌对国家之间)关系缓和v.(气候)解冻( thaw的第三人称单数 );(态度、感情等)缓和;(冰、雪及冷冻食物)溶化;软化
  • The sun at noon thaws the ice on the road. 中午的阳光很快把路上的冰融化了。 来自辞典例句
  • It thaws in March here. 在此地化雪的季节是三月。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
AC side breaker switching off
amphicoelous
anancasm
bacterial plaques
ball handle
Bangaluru
bearing portion
biocare
bistable mode of operation
blade straining device
bryer
bulk load
cement standard
chain of one regulator
chiarelli
chute gate
common coral trees
condictio sine causa
conduciveness
corkscrews
cypraea miliaris
decimal numeration
defeudalized
desiertoes
docking pinc(h)er
dolous
drooping nose
elastic load balancing
electronic bathythermograph
electropalatographic
Evans,Dame Edith
factionalized
flat blade
focusing eyeglass
four-component alloy
gaios
gammatone
genus richeas
glass filtration fabric
Gossi
groovine
group delay measuring equipment
handle wheel
Horspath
hyperthyoidism
Ibadhi
in may
inter-company
Ipomoea imperati
isotope buildup
key field level specification
Klein tests
kupfer-nickel
Le Pin-au-Haras
leutholds
levelling rod
low grade mineral
Magnolia henryi
Mann Ranges
mechanical solidarity
molybdenum support wire
noise-limited detector
nomadic phase
of the period
open-access
original type
other man
otto neumann sverdrups
overhead grabbing crane
parameter passing
pastacaldi
projection process
push sb over
reverberances
run-round
Sauropus bacciformis
second inversions
senses of direction
sight-reads
silk tree
sorex palustriss
spine base
stamp on
starfarers
student-teachers
subtilely
suella
temperature indicating pellet
Toloxychloral
tracing cross
Trelew
trenizine
tribromoimidazole
uncloudedness
unwarp
upper plate
vernacular paper
WEEE Directive
West Nicholson
woodruff key seat
Yiddishers
yoore