时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. A federal judge seems reluctant to investigate the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, while the Justice Department is looking into the matter. The Administration wants the court to back off, while others say it may be the only place for an impartial 1 inquiry 2.


2. Barry Bonds is fighting to keep his law team intact. He was in court today as prosecutors 3 questioned whether his attorneys have a potential conflict of interest. The lawyers had earlier represented two potential witnesses in a perjury 4 case that's linked to his alleged 5 steroid use.


3. The Transportation Security Administration is getting very little love from travellers this holiday season. A new Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows that travellers have so many complaints about the airport screening process that they actually rate the IRS higher than the TSA.


4. Any Martians out there may want to be on the lookout 6. Astronomers 7 say an asteroid 8 hurtling through space may be on a collision course with the red planet and could strike late next month.



1 impartial
adj.(in,to)公正的,无偏见的
  • He gave an impartial view of the state of affairs in Ireland.他对爱尔兰的事态发表了公正的看法。
  • Careers officers offer impartial advice to all pupils.就业指导员向所有学生提供公正无私的建议。
2 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
3 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
4 perjury
n.伪证;伪证罪
  • You'll be punished if you procure the witness to commit perjury.如果你诱使证人作伪证,你要受罚的。
  • She appeared in court on a perjury charge.她因被指控做了伪证而出庭受审。
5 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
6 lookout
n.注意,前途,瞭望台
  • You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
  • It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来,公司的前景可就不妙了。
7 astronomers
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪,为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 asteroid
n.小行星;海盘车(动物)
  • Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
  • It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小,但这样的危险还是存在的。
学英语单词
a slave to
adjournment sine die
aquacises
arbortristoside
auto purification
azodicarboxylate
ball valve with insulation jacket
Bas-Zaïre, Rég.du
bellum omnium contra omnes
benign mucosal pemphigoid
beran's tests
beta-HCG
Blambangan, Semenanjung
blocking journal
bridewain
Brussels net
C. P. Snow
capillary bronchitis
card image transaction
Chabda
chart quadrat
club-house
coefficient of consolidation
combined altitudes
cream-white
cryptogrammatic
d-channels
DC auxiliary generator
deconfine
desert wind
dynamic economies
galbe
good selves
half-wave transmission line
heines
high-beta torus
holothuroid
horkheimer
ilche
inquietudes
insure against
internal exile
kazuya
knee of internal capsule
lap-jointed
leptyntic
Lithocarpus henryi
luke-home
master scale
midtrimester abortion
mine safety
mizz-maze
moper
mussel plum
neutron collimator
nonexternal
nonfacultative
noxious retention theory
osteoonychodysplasia
peritoneal tuberculosis
Pingzhen City
podolite
polarization discrimination
post-office box number
power-to-flow ratio
proestrue
psilopogon pyrolophus
qi depression
rated power of steam turbine
red copper oxide
reheels
rehumanize
renal pyramids
reserve notes
resolution of a force
rheumatologists
shana
single files
single spindle miller
sortkey
spacelike interval
spontaneous symmetry breaking
spur-mark
steel-smelting furnace
storage method
strain-hardening strength
stumblebum
tenantcy
threshold hollow
tile joint
timelily
tuning-fork control
under voltage reverse phase relay
Vandopsis gigantea
verb phrase
walfair
What did you ask him
Wilburite
wilkatt
yustes
zero polt
Zhigang