时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(二)月


英语课

1. Hillary Clinton says she is heartsick at a motorcycle officer died in a crash this morning while escorting her motorcade. The Democratic Presidential hopeful plans to visit the fallen officier's family. The officier apparently 1 crashed into a concrete barrier near downtown Dallas.


 


2. A snowstorm is moving across the Northeast and it's worse than predicted. Up to ten inches of snow could fall in New York City. It's causing major airport delays and traffic snarls 2. And schools in Ohio and Connecticut closed.


 


3. A Minnesota woman faces charges in connection with a deadly school bus crash. Police say the driver of a van failed to stop at a stop sign Tuesday and slammed into a bus, killing 3 four students. Officials say the woman doesn't have a valid 4 license 5 and may be in the country illegally.


 


4. Our computer keyboard is about to be a thing of the past? Microsoft's Bill Gates predicts in the coming years computer users will interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards.


 



1 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
2 snarls
n.(动物的)龇牙低吼( snarl的名词复数 );愤怒叫嚷(声);咆哮(声);疼痛叫声v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的第三人称单数 );咆哮着说,厉声地说
  • I don't know why my hair snarls easily. 我不知道我的头发为什么容易缠结。 来自辞典例句
  • She combed the snarls out of her hair. 她把头发的乱结梳理通。 来自辞典例句
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
4 valid
adj.有确实根据的;有效的;正当的,合法的
  • His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
  • Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗?
5 license
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
学英语单词
a snowball
accuracy of analytic model
advection radiation fog
al-rifai
alpine bearberries
American twinflower
answering-relay set
anthrarufine
arch ring stress adjustment
automated nephelometric
bandabast
bathycentesis
batted
bedke
bertholds
calcined
capacitive tuning
cetirizine
Chalfont
charges on purchased material
citric amide
co-manages
collateral claim
command execution unit
condenser cleaning equipment
cookdom
cow dung
Daqing crude oil
dishlike
dissidency
drip proof screen protected machine
emergency terminal switch
examining judge
fine ore bin
florescue
fluid heat transfer
foot-shock
ganaderia
geostrophic potential vorticity
germanized
give as good as you get
gravimetric method by means of volatilization
Grosspertholz
half-moons
Hohne
horizontal pass point
instructest
keep improving
kermesite
Kianfu
livestrong
Marsupella
Mashārif
misanalyse
muchassi
nitroglycol
non-adjustable end stripping plier
norm-referenced
orthoclase feldspar
over-prices
overtread
parallel-plate chamber
performances of test piece for welding
perineal urethrdomy
phaenerophyta herbaceae
phyllobrotica sauteri
Phymosomatidae
physiotherap
Pompeiians
poppet type safety valve
predicate table
Pseudohemophily
reasonable range
Rhabditida
rib holding forceps
risk-based design
safety lanes
school yard
Sequillo, R.
ShamWow
shell ring
shift variant systems
sitzkrleg
sliding attachment
soap drying plant
spectral luminous efficacy
speedingup
split extension of group
stscsrs-s
suborder nothosaurias
surveillance inspection
survival sex
Tarpaulin Swamp
tatler
transom
transverse springs
upholstresses
wall-mount
waterproofing material
Western Europe
widgeons