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
aertryckosis
aglomerating
airsome
angle of cut off
bidirectional translocation
blue chipper,blue-chipper
Bodélé Dpr.
bow freeboard
braided diameter
branchial cysts
Carpodacus mexicanus
Cartesian geometry
Cavalluccio, Pta.
Centrolobium robustum
cnloranil
community antenna television line extender
compact Abelian group
current parameter stack segment register
derivatizes
drag oneself along
droit administration
drop ships
duty in arrears
eatings
education research information center (eric)
electric-shocks
error state
evilest
feather-checking
felt roller
fish ground
floors it
floorscape
genus Melanoplus
Grias cauliflora
grid structure
Helen, Mt.
helicobasidia
hengraves
herbal pieces prepared for decoction
Ihud Gebeya
immediate allergy
impact line printer
joint doctrine
land developments
linear programming/mathematics optimization subroutine
magnetogyric ratio
makali
mandatory bid for minority share-holdings
marketing functions
McFarlane
megaregolith
member of academic committee
mesophase carbon micro bead
military volunteer
morgenthalers
nabobish
noncommunications jamming
other head
Ovalipes
parcellize
Pennatulidae
Performance System International Network
petalochlamys formosana
picrasin
pipe radiator
planetary stirrer
Plodia interpunctella granulosis virus
postmortem rigdity
pre-apology
purchase group
quadrate foramina
reflex movement
retend
ribbed bolt
right-about
Rock River
running scastings
sapstreak
savoie (savoy)
self destruct device
self START
sewage treatment plants
skid preventation
smeriglio
spatial concept
state-based
stud nut
supplier appraisal
symphonized
temporalizes
term mortgage
Texan tuxedo
thought control
thousandel
thout
tidologist
tyranosanrus
Uwa-kai
xenobiotic metabolism
xerograms
zakim