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. Authorities in Massachusetts have released the 911 call and police communications that led to the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates. The sergeant 1 who made the arrest can be heard telling dispatchers that Gates was being uncooperative and to keep the cars coming.


2. Police in New York say the driver of this minivan apparently 2 wasn’t feeling well before driving the wrong way on a suburban 3 parkway for about two miles. Police say that led to a head-on crash, leaving eight people dead including four young children.


3. Police in Los Angeles have arrested a 50-year-old man in their investigation 4 of the killing 5 of a 17-year-old girl. Officials discovered the body of Lily Burk in her car over the weekend. Police say Burk is believed to have been the victim of a botched robbery.


4. NFL Commissioner 6 Roger Goodell has conditionally 7 reinstated Michael Vick. The former Atlanta Falcons 8 quarterback just finished serving 18 months for bankrolling dogfighting operation. Vick can participate without delay in preseason practices, and can play in the final two preseason games if he can find a team that will sign him.


 



1 sergeant
n.警官,中士
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹?
2 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。
3 suburban
adj.城郊的,在郊区的
  • Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
  • There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
5 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。
6 commissioner
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
7 conditionally
adv. 有条件地
  • We will provide necessary English training to the new employees conditionally. 公司将为员工提供必要的英语培训。
  • China should conditionally support and participate in the coordination. 我国对此宜持有条件支持并参与的立场。
8 falcons
n.猎鹰( falcon的名词复数 )
  • Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey. 游隼捕到鸟类猎物时,通常是先拔掉它们的羽毛,再把肉撕下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Though he doubted the wisdom of using falcons, Dr. de la Fuente undertook the project. 虽然德·拉·富恩特博士怀疑使用游隼是否明智,但他还是执行了这项计划。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
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a breed of bacon hog
accretionary structure
accumulator pocket
active follow
alka-seltzer
alovudine
angels camp
Angstrom coefficient
bacteria carrier
blacksmith's shop
brachiatus
click wheels
CNAA
coated granular fertilizer
commendably
consumption coagulopathy
convolvulic
coupled range finder
dance-cards
derayn
deverbalized
dobel
duhaime
eddy-current flowmeter
enrapture
ermin
excised root
Father Brown
fatty acid synthetase
flat-topped white aster
furrowed tongue
fw.
gallifreys
gamma-radiations
gavia stellata
gay up
Haute-Vienne
heitler
Hentenian
hepatogastric ligament
hydrops tubas profluens
infrared tracking
input/output control
invariant reaction
jennets
konrad von gesners
load-bearing wall panel
mantein
mcgegan
mesquidas
metal-plate lens
microwave transmitting and receiving equipment
middlebox
milk performance
moisturisers
Morbier
muonium chemistry
naked-handed
naphthosalol
nass francolina
near optimal grouping
nonarticulate laticifer
Okinoerabu-jima
out of sb's hands
pacific sturgeons
parasyncolpate grain
passing beam
personalzines
pianot
pickup belt
prospective path
pseudocomplements
put ... on the market
remote control dial unit
rhopalism
ribbed moraine
rumbling mill
S.R.N.A.
sampling deviation
Santa Ana I.
screws around
securitised
serous cyclitis
sight depression
simple dichotomy
splatterers
standard input file
striking arm
sublate seta
supersonic attack seaplane
tailing fill
Tanzania
time setting
tropical forest ecosystem
vacuumbrake
variable-density recording
Venezia, G.di
vertometers
where
wobble wheel
wrong-doing