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 letter of sympathy
aboveness
additional mechanism
administrative management school
algrens
amiantos
anti-auxins
Ashmyanskaye
ball type dust collector
basoplasm
beaneys
case document
cash covered options
Chippewa, Lake
cirrate antenna
Clematis obscura
cluster of keys
cluster-type system
color appraisal
companion-in-arms
control instrumentes
credit-sales
dance to music
DICYEMIDAE
disruption time
dopey
Dore Monts
double ended wrench (double ended spanner)
draw curtain
embroidery gauze
estuarine muds
exponential generating function
Facebook Chat
fele
field phase
filleroy
fin tube type metallic recuperator
fixed shunt resistor
Flemming's solution
function subprogram name
gizzed
haughtinesses
heavy duty machine
heuene
horse gin
inward transit
iwamotoes
joint acquired property
kaif
Lobatto quadrature formula
Mac OS X Tiger
magnetic analysis inspection
magniac
Miyake Yoshinobu
motion angle for actuating travel
mucidin
neuroderm
non-competing groups
nonvisulization
nose boom
packless valve
Perthshire
pole-dancing
pored wood
pork liver sausage
portable telephone set
prowesses
pulsation interference
pulvinaria polygonata
quadrilingual
retinols
Sanhala
satsuma phoenicis
Scutellaria teniana
self-acting braking
service unit for foreigners
Shimabara-wan
shunt excited motor
sine-consine condenser
skuleskogen
slack-moutheds
spokeshaves
squeezing roller
stire
stolen-bases
stopford
stuckert
tabots
tailpipe center piece
taufa'ahau
tellurium(vi) fluoride
temperature of coolant returned to the reactor coolant system
the Permian period
Thirty Years' War
topological groups
Trustee Ordinance
tsarist, Tsarist
twin-direction clutch
upsie-turvy
voice communication assembly
wet without rain
wish to goodness