时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:趣谈英语


英语课

 Pre-Listening Vocabulary


 
independence: freedom from another government’s control
significant: important; notable
draft: to write
rival: enemy
renew: to try again; to refresh something from the past
outlive: to live longer than
written in the stars: destined 1 to happen
 




Two US Presidents Died on Independence Day
On July 4th Americans around the world celebrate Independence Day. July 4th is a significant day in American history for two other reasons. The second US president, John Adams, and the third president, Thomas Jefferson, both died on July 4th. In fact, Adams and Jefferson both died on July 4th, 1826. This was the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Adams and Jefferson had worked together to draft the Declaration. In later years, the two became political rivals. It wasn’t until they were both retired 2 that they renewed their friendship and expressed their respect for each other. Adams who was 90 outlived Jefferson, 82, by five hours.


adj.命中注定的;(for)以…为目的地的
  • It was destined that they would marry.他们结婚是缘分。
  • The shipment is destined for America.这批货物将运往美国。
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
学英语单词
Adam, Mt.
air on
air-content ratio
apparent diffusion constant
arthritis of hemophilia
bachand
Bankers Trust New York Corp
burn together
color sublimation
comes into
confirmation signalling
contracted code sonde
control list
Cricova
debtor's petition
decision making function
dimcontinue
direct tablet compressing
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
dozener
drugtaker
electrode sticking
equitable share of world export trade
erogeneity
eryloside
et ux.
extra premium
extrinsic silicon detector
ferenti
flip book
forward excavator
gloves for massage
gluten mellowing
group identification numbers
hardening by cooling
hematotropic
hindsight
HSCB
ignash
imine-enamine tautomerism
imitation platinum
indragiri r.
interkinesis
inverse Gaussian distribution
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
juvenile hormone
JWI
leading edge of impulse
leave a margin on the page
look the part
Loose Credit
mic check
migration probability
milkiness
misrepresentations of financial information
morstein
newgulf
non-monetary economy
nzema
orenge
overall investment
pachyptilus tenuis
Paulino Neves
phosphate additive
pincer type bale lifter
pomadasys hasta
program skip
pulse-improvement threshold
pump sth up
real-time data system
refelling
Riacho do Mendes
ruyi brand
sales depth test
scott joplins
sealing joint strip
self-generation
separated formal scheme
setarious
smooth-surface
socialist road
someone's true colors
stem-shoot forest
straight news
stromnite
subnutrition
supported cable
tails up
Talayuela
technical marketing
The deuce!
thermal equivalent intensity
thumbtack
tolyl methyl ether
toxogen
two-position three way directional control valve
uncer
uscpaa
virginio
yassen
yvette