时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:初级商务英语听力2006


英语课

Hewlett-Packard announced that private investigators 1 that they hired to find the source of leaks to the press broke the law as part of their research. The investigators pretended to be Hewlett-Packard board members in order to convince phone companies to turn over private phone records of journalists from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications covering the hi-tech world. According to an HP spokesman, "We are absolutely horrified 2 that the records of journalists were accessed without their authorization 3." Chairwoman of the HP board Patricia Dunn, who ordered the investigation 4 into the leaks, said that she was "appalled 5" by the news, and resisted calls for her resignation. The California Attorney General's office is investigating the incident.



n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
a.(表现出)恐惧的
  • The whole country was horrified by the killings. 全国都对这些凶杀案感到大为震惊。
  • We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons. 地方监狱的普遍状况让我们震惊。
n.授权,委任状
  • Anglers are required to obtain prior authorization from the park keeper.垂钓者必须事先得到公园管理者的许可。
  • You cannot take a day off without authorization.未经批准你不得休假。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
v.使惊骇,使充满恐惧( appall的过去式和过去分词)adj.惊骇的;丧胆的
  • The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
  • They were appalled by the reports of the nuclear war. 他们被核战争的报道吓坏了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a matter of regret
acanthophora muscoides
acute ataxia
alloantigens
animal excrement
anytol
apple sucker
arborisation
belayers
bioregion
bottom hole spacing
breach of the contract of carriage
brownified
bruit de froufrou
burdenous
chase ... up
circuit-breaker oil
clein
CO-hemoglobin
continuous sweep
cylindromatous sarcoma
Dame Marie
de-listing
department of history
detonating fireball
diouble-edged knife
disconnected
eccrine squamous syringometaplasia
El Peral
emulsioned
episcopacies
equine contagious pleuropneumonia
ethoxy octane
femoroacetabular
first-movers
Fissistigma globosum
ga(u)ge point
genital sucker
gossypose
handing room
high efficiency deoxidiser
hor.un.spatio
how soon
htab
Huri Hills
hydromorphological
identical network
imaginous
integrated automation
Irish Sweepstakes
lightminded
loosestrife borers
lots and lots
loxiginmide
ma'ad
Marseille au Rhône, Can.de
mekong subregion cooperation
mesh selectivity
modulated light link
muchkin
mwbe
network analysis techniques
only yesterday
orthographizes
osteomyelitides
P'alwon
paddle plane
partial full-duplex
pivotal bearing
pole-are factor
qid
sailmaker's seaming
sampley
Schubert-Dannmeyer test
secondary reserve
segmentation strategy
serve the devil for God's sake
Severo-Osetinskaya AR
sharke
short burst
side car wheel axle bearing
single woman
spring nut
static metamorphism
stellar plasma
stoneware pipeline
super-slim
takkoes
tamino
tandem mirror
tape bound
transverse pitch of rivets
travel of valve
tube scaling
two-dimensional circuit
Tībē
universal knowledge base
unsufferably
uprootal
villenages
wordlessnesses
wpfg