时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(七)月


英语课

1.The lawyer for Michael Jackson’s personal physician says his client will not comment on rumor 1, innuendo 2 or unnamed sources. That statement follows a law enforcement official telling the AP that Dr. Conrad Robert Murray gave Jackson a powerful anesthetic 3 to help him sleep. Authorities believe that drug is what caused Jackson’s heart to stop.


2.Conjoined twins born with a single body and two heads have died just five days after being born. The boys died from organ failure within minutes of one another. They were born in an Indonesian hospital last Thursday with two hearts but shared all other vital organs.


3.Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford says he wants to be moved from a private prison to a federal detention 4 center because he's been without air conditioning. Stanford also says he has to share a cell with up to ten other inmates 5. He's jailed on charges of operating a 7-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.


4.A Californian judge has appointed a lawyer to keep a close eye on the earnings 6 of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets. He says he wants to make sure the babies aren't exploited for financial gain. The family accept to star in a reality show this fall.



1 rumor
n.谣言,谣传,传说
  • The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
  • The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。
2 innuendo
n.暗指,讽刺
  • The report was based on rumours,speculation,and innuendo.这份报告建立在谣言、臆断和含沙射影的基础之上。
  • Mark told by innuendo that the opposing team would lose the game.马克暗讽地说敌队会在比赛中输掉。
3 anesthetic
n.麻醉剂,麻药;adj.麻醉的,失去知觉的
  • He was given a general anesthetic.他被全身麻醉。
  • He was still under the influence of the anesthetic.他仍处在麻醉状态。
4 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
5 inmates
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 earnings
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得
  • That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
  • Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
学英语单词
a ghost town
adjust to zero
agorot
alyea
anthrax bacillus
appointment and dismissal
automatic circular knitter
ballistic gelatin
bibliomaniac
blackjack bearing series
blow off line
bond-buying
brush aeration
Caraquenian
Cecidomyia
classification of industry branches
collyrial
come low
convective transfer
cut two ways
cylinder array
cylinder with inserted liner
desmiognathic parasite
duchesse set
election-winner
emulsion cosmetic
engine run
Enya
eons
family carapidaes
Ficus virens var. sublanceolata
filing date
flexible disk coupling
format vertical
generalized solvable group
give a chance
glucose formate agar
goyische
have no difficulty with
hawse-piece
howell bunger valve
Hubli
hug it out
hypertext organization
hypoelectrolytemia
immersion filter
inkstone
Insurance Items
Kozeny-Carman equation
latex agglutination inhibition test
living will code
lvfas
macroorganism
majority judgment
manyear
mechanics in the earth's crust
moderatorlattice
modulator band filter
multiple domain names
multiple key database
Newton-Laphson iteration
Olah
organ of Leydig
oversimplifies
percentage by weight
Phased array.
phono-selectoscope
PLA (programmed logic array )
pleural ossification
prefused eutectic
private acts of parliament
pulse jet intermittent duct
pygophora trimaculata
rathaus
re tighten
reperpetrating
roller painter
saleable high
sgm (segmentation message)
shammeses
shift out stake
singlestage
spine sign
spinifer
sports health
stamping form
striding gait
suffiction
sweep clean
Thatcheresque
the stuff of legend
theodicean
topographic adolescsnce
trigger action reelay
U.S.A. screw thread
unstatistical
wayne
weight number
winning configuration
wood-
Xmases