时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十一)月


英语课

1.Black Friday has arrived with shoppers across the country up thoroughly 1 this morning in search of holiday bargains. With the economy still struggling, many analysts 2 expect retail 3 sales to be about flat compared to last year.


2.Overseas stocks are taking a hit as investors 4 are skittish 5 about Dubai's debt problems. The news has triggered fears of a wave of heavy losses at banks that could hinder a global economic recovery.


3.The couple who crashed an exclusive state dinner at the White House the other night are aspiring 6 reality TV stars. The camera crew connected to Bravo's upcoming The Real Housewives of DC will still mean the couple getting ready for the event in an apparent audition 7.


4.It's moving day for this pair of giant pandas. The pandas are being flown from China to an Australian zoo where will be the only giant pandas in the southern hemisphere.



1 thoroughly
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
2 analysts
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
3 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
4 investors
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
5 skittish
adj.易激动的,轻佻的
  • She gets very skittish when her boy-friend is around.她男朋友在场时,她就显得格外轻佻。
  • I won't have my son associating with skittish girls.我不准我的儿子与轻佻的女孩交往。
6 aspiring
adj.有志气的;有抱负的;高耸的v.渴望;追求
  • Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
  • He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句
7 audition
n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)
  • I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音,可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
  • At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初,他们说他太小,但后来他们叫他去试听。
学英语单词
aggregate domestic supply structure
aliconazole
antar tablet
applied archaeology
arnaulds
arteria circumflexa scapulae
automatically corrected error
baader-meinhof gangs
back-off angle
bargaining set
Beclazone
bench blotter
blundering
bona fide taxpayer
bravais-miller symbol
bronco-busting
canvas lining
chargeable fault
closed-cycle gas-cooled reactor
common bamboo
cost,insurance,freight war risk
culturelike
databasenames
deep camber
depth wheel
directinsert
E1422 resonance
Echzell
ecumenicities
erosion shield for blade
ethnic-studies
Explotab
fat clients
Filaria immitis
four-byte signed integer key
frequency-modulation and voice frequency
fuscata
gaging hole
gravity computer
hammerblow
hang stand
happeneth
Heroina
hydnocarpus oil
identaical twins
in the middle
isogonal affine transformation
kultas
lactoria diaphanus
laforge
Lakeland terrier
leechfinger
Lewisian
locking rim
lysalbic acid
Maisonneuve's instruments
marking wave
metal locked up in furnace bottom
missile engineering
Napaltane
nuclear radiation source
off-the-shelf
offer remains valid until... (date)
oligoneustic
one-album
overworlds
parallel computing system
performance of program
pileolaria klugkistiana
plate engraving ink
powder aerated goods
premelt
PubMatic
rate of return on investment
rossett
rove-beetle
ruter
salix triandras
Saskatonians
schinostethus satoi
short-leg
siliceous sand stone
Sino-German
slat packing
solleret
song thrushes
sound spotting
spin-rate meter
spina scapul?
squash bugs
St Bees
strong-focusing synchrotron
superteachers
t-us
Tadoma
theophobist
traffic direction block system
tripartite
triple dub
ulnar surface
unheartening
Vasiliki