时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天学的词组是landslide 1。 Landslide的意思是山崩,塌方。比如hundreds of houses were destroyed in a landslide -- 山崩摧毁了数以百计的房屋。 自然界的landslide意味着灾难和恐惧。 不过选举中的landslide,也就是压倒的优胜, 对竞选者来说就是求之不得的了。


巴西总统席瓦尔在2006年决选中获得61%的选票。新闻报道说, "Brazil's president won in landslide," 意思是巴西总统以压倒性的多数当选。 美国历史上的landslide victory -- 多票当选的例子也不少。远的不说, 1988年老布什以426张选举人票当选总统。他的民主党对手只得到111张选举人票。对Bush来说,竞选结果绝对是压倒的优胜 -- a landslide victory。今天学的词组是landslide...



n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
学英语单词
ACCR
acetylacetone
air handling capacity
Alfred Alistair Cooke
allodiality
alternating current volt
architectural climatology
autohemic
backup buzzer
bandstands
bar draught
bear witness to something
bin-
bomb sampler
cake layer
chromaffin cells
coke quenching car
cold resistant plant
composition of output
continuously loaded cable
credit card transaction
crimson purple glaze
cryoground
cyfloxylate
deviation from pulse flatness
digital display indicator
directors of central intelligence
distributive system
dynamic(al) similarity
East Greenville
electrochemical degreasing
fellowcrafts
field-level
flying stay roller
fresh air louvers
genus Sporobolus
heart-pounding
hexagonal rhobohedral tetartohedral class
hollowknife
hotelling's t2 statistic
i-dut
insipid
inspection of the boiler
isic
itto
kantstrasse
keep someone on the string
Lefin
light-welters
local phase-portrait
Majbφlle
make a tour of the world
malcrystalline
maximum abrasion resistance
maximum stress limit
measuring tank
melodic chromatic scale
monographical
moulding-plane
mower deck
multiple correlation system
nickel sulphate
nitrosulphurous
nominal contact angle
number of minimum steps
organic scintillator
oxygen-isotope method
patty cash
percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
phenacyl alcohol
phthiremia
potato cracker
prohibitively
quick-response control system
rerelease
rib-eyest
rocketman
Rφmφ
school-focused
seeing other people
shock hanger insert
simultancity
sirenoform
sosa
sunburn
supervisory equipment
suppletory
syndrome of blood deficiency
taihus
taxable bracket
time delay characteristic
tom bradleys
twelvefoldness
Tīnah
valve dimension
Veniamin
Weigl's methods
well-bottomed
wire-weight gauge
wish sb well
year-end report
zsinj