时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月


英语课

1. The Los Angeles county coroner's finding that Michael Jackson's death was a homicide could eventually lead to criminal charges for Jackson's personal doctor. Doctor Conrad Murray told investigators 1 he gave Jackson a mix of drugs to treat the pop star's insomnia 2 in the hours before his death.


2. NASA will try again Wednesday morning to launch the shuttle Discovery. The Space Agency had scrubbed Tuesday morning's launch because of thunderstorms. Discovery will carry seven astronauts as well as thousands of pounds of space station supplies to the International Space Station.


3. An Associated Press source says President Barack Obama plans to nominate Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term. Obama will make the announcement today during a break from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard.


4. The auto 3 industry will continue to try and lure 4 customers in without the help of "Cash for Clunkers". The government program which gave auto sales the joys ended last night. Through Monday, dealers 5 are reportedly selling more than 600,000 vehicles in just a month for the government rebates 6.



1 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 insomnia
n.失眠,失眠症
  • Worries and tenseness can lead to insomnia.忧虑和紧张会导致失眠。
  • He is suffering from insomnia.他患失眠症。
3 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。
4 lure
n.吸引人的东西,诱惑物;vt.引诱,吸引
  • Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
  • He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。
5 dealers
n.商人( dealer的名词复数 );贩毒者;毒品贩子;发牌者
  • There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
  • The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败,与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
6 rebates
n.退还款( rebate的名词复数 );回扣;返还(退还的部份货价);折扣
  • The VAT system offers advantages, such as rebates on exports. 增值税有其优点,如对出口商品实行回扣。 来自辞典例句
  • In more recent years rate rebates have been introduced for households. 近年地方税的减免已适用于家庭。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
Abra R.
acro-ischemia
alizarin monosulfonate
altiplanos
anomabu
anti-kickback attachment
arc hyperbolic function
archispore
art it
Berks.
Blastus auriculatus
boasberg
broach taper
broadbean
built like a brick shithouse
Calanthe trifida
Cerea
Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom
chelate fertilizer
chibouque
coarse whiting
coniferol
Consolan consol
cross-intensity function
current condenser
dassie rats
decemfoliate
deer grasses
dendrigrafts
deutzia staminea r.br.
dipicryl sulphide
distantiation
dynomic adaptive routing
easy come, easy go
extrarius
freight classification
fructan
fukusa
high - speed photography
hincty
huudus
in balance
indispensable amino acid
inebrieties
infrigidations
karakoram pass
katarins
krengs
lawfulls
limonlu (lamas)
Liplaster
Lithocarpus obovatilimbus
loranthuss
Maruia
Metlaltoyuca
money clips
occupational health and safety
oil product carrier
once-vibrant
over-heavy
oylet
ozone ageing
pen-nib
phoniatrics
pizzaiolo
plasmahaut
potassium diiodomethane disulfonate
priming arrangement
product analysis incident report
pseuduridine
Ptolemy XI Alexander II
radiation analysis
range-ionization telescope
Roscelin
salcalcitonin
semanticization
semispinalis cervicis
shaft neck
signalings
slents
Sohagpur
sound level meter attenuator
sphenopteris
spiral riveted pipe
starting apparatus
take the cowl
tampulbolon
tetrahydrocitral
tetramethyl tin
the fate of
thirst-quenchers
transmeta
unified judical supervision
unilateral transmission
vegetable shredder
veinlikest
verification of measuring instruments
wastage in bulk
wave train figure
weighted composite relative index
win an advantage over
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