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
-gillin
Agbonou
aifld
anticollision light
antithetic variates
Arkansasian
arteria renaliss
articulations
basilicum
be an example to
beckermen
blank bar
Bollwiller
bowlings
brains out
Campomanes
chemosphere
colour coder
costae cervicales
crimpage
current fertility
Dicliptera elegans
disinterested witness
DLCL
double cylinder slasher
drilling boat
enter mode
feederliner
flosculiferous
fracture of capitulum radii
gadolinium molybdate
gauge of cloth
gromas
ground water runoff
Hasan
high-frequency tuner
induction magnetometer
inhomogeneous linear difference equation
Juncus aletaiensis
karuk
kersanton
kiloparsecs
knoxia valerianoides thorel
lightened floor
load maintainer system
MacGillivray's warbler
magley
mail inquiry
manganese copper nickel
methylalloxan
mining method
montefalco
Mycobacterium piscium
nitrogen turnover
Omanise
operations concurrency
osteochondromatosis synovial
palmoplantar mucosal melanoma
pelvimeter
pexelizumab
pharyngo-oesophageal system
physiognomics
plutonium hexafluoride
position title
power trip
primary refrigerant pump
prior transaction
profitpush
projection join mapping
Prosign.
quarter-miler
reabsorbs
Republitards
restrict competition
ringed seal
saws down
sea water carbonate system
self-recognitions
semisimple representation
Serravalian Age
set something down
smergal(smirgel)
specific test reactor
spontaneous radiation
stator before rotor
stealed
superdepartments
supergiant radio galaxy
taffias
target heater
TayehFormation
tera-lumens
thorugh
through-going shaft
too-big-too-fail
two redundance(-cy)
vanadium cast iron
vibratory feed
well-blacked
wheel web
wood-smokes
X-ray astronomy