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
adrenosterones
adsor-ptive bubble separation method
Amomum medium
angular discrepancy
anoxemia
autoclast
bilayerlike
biomedical libraries
borislavs
Borsche carbazole synthesis
calanticids
call statement for creating task
car-pooler
case-death ratio
casualty invstigation
chasey
chernozem like aluvial soil
choke hold
Coelogyne sanderae
collision warning light
combination factory ship
composite moniker
concordancy of cable
constant field commutator motor
continuous draw bar
cost saving
creational patterns
differential mode voltage
dinitropropyl phenol
division value
doven
empty-hand
endurance-boosting
epicondylus
extra expenditure
Falls' test
flat ground
formalized computer
fubbery
Giraldes'organ
gun-laying radar
Gypaetus barbatus
haberdashing
henderson cinder roasting process
high-speed bus
honey bees
hydridocobalamin
hyperdorism
indicating impulse
intercondyloid eminence
interfile relationship
jaal-goat
joint cutoff
Lealgin
left-side
liquid shock absorber
magnetic drum coating
melanocytes
mounted point
neptunium 237
neutron energy groups
Ngoura
normal approximation
novae
oversialylated
pattern-notes
perambulators
peripheral sink
philagra montana
photograph index chart
play the gallant to
poling board
polinices didyma didyma
proportional governor
protohydrogen
ramdom variable
ringsail
sessile bellwort
single roller escapement
sok
soldering sleeve
spill-proof
stelled
strappadoed
stripping time
subtropical convergence
sufflations
take a pique against sb
teddybear
theissen
tonson
toughening treatment
trice
tube pyrolysis furnace
UFCA
unlawly
Utroya
V-type piston pump
variable elements of semi-variable costs
wooden-head
work to proportional limit
yoke mooring system