时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天我们要学的词组是hot seat。 Hot seat在美国俚语里指处死刑用的电椅。Hot seat也指困窘的处境,尴尬的局面。比如公司连续亏损,总裁的压力很大, "The CEO found himself in the hot seat after another bad quarter."


还比如美国副总统切尼的前办公厅主任Lewis Libby被控在中情局特工身份泄露案的调查过程中撒谎。 法院开庭审理Lewis Libby一案的时候,许多政府要人不得不出庭回答问题,其中许多人处境尴尬, "Many will be on the hot seat during the trial." 今天我们学习的词组是hot seat ...



学英语单词
'look
-ish
a bad turn
a vio
acetamides
aim ... at
airtight bulkhead
amsinckia grandifloras
ancillary judicial personnel in court
annonacinone
anti-rightist
antistacking
Archer, William
assembly of reduction furnace
bamfordite
bluegreen algae
body bag
brotherstons
capillary electrophoresis
chain-smoke
cleptolagnia
coarse grained fracture
coevolution
continuous wind
continuums
crestal-surface trace
cropshin
Cuddebackville
cyclomicrophyllidine
cyclosa mulmeinensis
danger of collision
DAT file
DC resin
dibenzoylornithine
donkey jackets
earth radiation budget experiment (erbe)
enzalutamide
fan cooling
Ferro, Porto
filled level checker
film festival
fission product production
fistula corneae
give sb a hard time
grief tourist
hand rammer
heloise
hypothesises
imprudences
incretory glands
irregular articulation
isocrackate
knees together spring sitting
lactaldehyde
Ladoeiro
lambda
large scale ore car
Larva-fly
lifting apparatus
loading-unloading blast
lot tolerance
lower right quadrant
lupus verrucosus
macro accounting
madapolam
minimax theorem
mogis
monitoring for water pollution
monkey patched
motherload
mwai
non-uniform insulated winding
optional registration service
oscillographic
parallel-axial twin
pawnor
point-spread
port rate
portable downdraft submersible pump
range gate deception
rath
repeated breaches
rope hoist
rough swell
snap header
Snuff-it
soft-headeds
squirral cage induction motor
sticky dust
svp
tidal station
tolpentamide
transitional series
trimethyl phosphate
unpopped
v5 data link address
Venn
virginoparous female
Waihou R.
weed oil
weld handle
winter jasmine