时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(五)月


英语课

1.US officials say there are new signs North Korea may be planning even more missile launches. Today it fired its sixth short-range missile since Monday and officials say there are signs of more activity.


2.Members of the United Auto 1 Workers union have ratified 2 a package of concessions 3, designed to reduce GM's labor 4 costs. The vote comes before an expected Chapter 11 bankruptcy 5 protection filing by GM on Monday.


3.Phil Specter has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. The 69-year-old music producer was convicted for shooting Clarkson at his home in 2003. Specter plans to appeal.


4.Prince Harry 6 has been taking a tour of the World Trade Center site. It's the first stop on his first official visit to the US. He placed a wreath with a hand-written note at Ground Zero and bowed his head as he stood over the 9/11 Memorial.



1 auto
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
2 ratified
v.批准,签认(合约等)( ratify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The treaty was declared invalid because it had not been ratified. 条约没有得到批准,因此被宣布无效。
  • The treaty was ratified by all the member states. 这个条约得到了所有成员国的批准。
3 concessions
n.(尤指由政府或雇主给予的)特许权( concession的名词复数 );承认;减价;(在某地的)特许经营权
  • The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工,公司将不得不作出一些让步。
  • The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
4 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
5 bankruptcy
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
6 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
学英语单词
acceptest
active placeboes
acyclo-gtp
adult-only
aerodynamic turbine
antiquer
athyroxinosis
atmospheric pressure chamber
bad bleiberg
bellows-type gas meter
binder energy
blitzed
blocking courses
call monitor instruction
callserver
cant spar
carbonate spring
card translater
cat fall
cauda muliebris
cherry knocking
chicoraceous
conventional spelling
countifies
depravedly
dexes
diameter of centre hole in bolts
digital data generator
distilled spirit
double row ball journal bearing
Egyptain clover
elongated lens
engine breakdown
equator of date
etisus electra
extractum nucis vomicae liquidum
Falcata japonica
farm plan
fast-dry
Fentonhill
Firmicuteria
fracture length
girth of paunch
glass rubbing machine
gres
hash sequence
high speed static pressure bearing
hold hand
in-process material
ioannis
Jepara
joint float
Koksu
Komondorok
lago de nicaragua
laminar fluidized bed
Letaba R.
lock/unlock facility
Luwian
magnetoswitch-board exchange
man-computer interaction
microthermoforming
monitoring feedback signal
monoclinic crystal extinction
nationwide power grid system
negative state relief model
Ntungamo
ocular finder
oculogravicillusion
Oria, V.de
outrigger canoe
pajs
PEAM
personal goalsetting
phillipsite tepherite
phosphodegron
planetary camera
pouring foaming
principle of allocation of cost
pubic body
rammen
Ramus pharyngeus
rangoes
San José de Mayo
secular trends in physical growth
seek exorbitant profits
self-regards
ship-bornes
sima(sima sphere)
superior sphenoidal fissure
suspended stiffening truss
synanche
tarsoclasis
technicoloured
thalictrinine
tilde
transition life-zone
trey
tsim sha tsui
waste head
xanthopimpla punctata
Yield-value