时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2010


英语课

On this date in 1856, a grassroots anti-establishment, low government political movement convened 1 in Philadelphia to nominate its first presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore, the party was called the Know-Nothings.


On this date in 1861, a grassroots anti-establishment, low government political movement convened in Montgomery to inaugurate its first leader Jefferson Davis.  That group was the Confederate States of America.  What a coincidence.


Let‘s play “Oddball.”


We begin in Britain with Murdoch‘s Sky News coverage 2 of the Obama-Biden stimulus 3 availability


yesterday.  Anchor Kay Burley discussing the U.S. economy with correspondent Greg Milam.  Neither of them realizing it was the first day of Lent also known by Catholics as Ash Wednesday.


 


-Waiting for Joe Biden to introduce the president within the next few moments.  The vice 4 president as you said—what happened to his head?  I’m sure that’s what everybody’s asking at home.


-He’s been up to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics and was the face of the administration there.  So, whether there was some accident or what little incidents being up in Vancouver, we don’t know.


-It’s probably happened on those T trace down the lounge or something.  Certainly, it looks like quite a bruise 5, doesn’t it?  Anyway—


You see what happens, Henry VIII—you see what happens when you kicked out the Catholic Church? Forget about that Papal assignment you two are hoping for.  Eventually, somebody called in.  She apologized, claimed she was a very bad Catholic and went to break.


Speaking of breaks, Internets LOL, and keeping with fashion week here in New York, there’s a fashion show from some other location on the planet.  Two models strutting 6 their stuff on the runway, on the runway, styling the latest trends with this fall, or make that one model styling the latest—medic?



1 convened
召开( convene的过去式 ); 召集; (为正式会议而)聚集; 集合
  • The chairman convened the committee to put the issue to a vote. 主席召集委员们开会对这个问题进行表决。
  • The governor convened his troops to put down the revolt. 总督召集他的部队去镇压叛乱。
2 coverage
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
3 stimulus
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
4 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 bruise
n.青肿,挫伤;伤痕;vt.打青;挫伤
  • The bruise was caused by a kick.这伤痕是脚踢的。
  • Jack fell down yesterday and got a big bruise on his face.杰克昨天摔了一跤,脸上摔出老大一块淤斑。
6 strutting
加固,支撑物
  • He, too, was exceedingly arrogant, strutting about the castle. 他也是非常自大,在城堡里大摇大摆地走。
  • The pompous lecturer is strutting and forth across the stage. 这个演讲者在台上趾高气扬地来回走着。
学英语单词
5-hydroxy1-2'-deoxyuridine
albuminorrhea
antitypical
autodope
balancing illumination
beam-type magnetron
bent test
blend fabric
bloodened
blowsiness
bottom damage
brown-earths
business indicators
calcareous water
Chilean salad
chuggable
CNSTR
coconutty
combined service force
commit a breach of international practice
condensable vapour
convective inhibition (cin)
corporation
crownycle
cytoplasma
disarmest
document of settlement
East Petersburg
Etesian climate
Euphorbia garanbiensis
exceade
extreme ray
front release
fuel storage hopper
geraniaceous
glowered
gut lockers
helf
hemorrhagic enterocolitis
hook me up
horizontal clamping
inprocess inventory
international finance corporate
intrinsic geometry
Janus kinases
Lomotil
long - term contracts
marching ones and zeros test
marine data assimilation technology
masticator nuclei
matimati
MGIB
Mokrousovskiy Rayon
multiple circuit line
native conformation
nerve of pterygoid canal (or vidian nerve)
neuro-navigator
non-cyclotron-resonance
nutritionists
oh man
Ophioplocus
pinoes
polar capacitor
Pomoxis annularis
porta lienis
postpaleolithic
pre-erase
pressure alarm
pyrolysis in tubular furnace
radial disclination
rake of wagons
recruiting-sergeant
reforesting
relating to
ribbons
runbacks
scalar product of tensors
seawater circulation system
self-sown crop
shell-and-plate heat exchanger
skeletal traction tqrongh distal end of femur
skim serum
sleeping together
slip ship
soddish
Spitzhauben
stand-alone word-processing equipment
stereomicrometer
stick by one's gun
store interface link
surface finish measuring tool
synophridea
thaddaeuss
the north east
under the umbrella of
Urmarskiy Rayon
vertical gradiometer
VINES
viscosity-temperature number
weighs down
well wish
Yameen