时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月


英语课

1. It looks like Illinois state lawmakers won't be getting into the criminal case against Gov. Rod Blagojevich as they consider whether he should be impeached 1. Federal prosecutors 2 today asked them not to delve 3 into the case, saying they're concerned it could hurt their own investigation 4.


2. Some commuters in Washington got a scare this morning as a massive water main break turned this road into a raging river. A number of people had to be saved, including this pair who had to be airlifted to safety.


3. Winter weather is leading to hundreds of flights being canceled in Chicago and delays at both O'Hare International and Midway airports. Dozens of Amtrak passengers are also reporting being stranded 5 in Chicago for more than 12 hours awaiting a New York-bound train.


4. A couple of giant pandas are getting used to their new home. The two arrived in Taiwan today. They are a gift from China as the rivals try to better their relationship.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. delve: v.


If you delve into something, you try to discover new information about it.


2. water main: n.


a large underground pipe that carries the public supply of water to buildings


 



1 impeached
v.控告(某人)犯罪( impeach的过去式和过去分词 );弹劾;对(某事物)怀疑;提出异议
  • Elected officials can be impeached. 经过选举产生的官员可以被弹劾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The judge was impeached for taking a bribe. 这个法官被检举接受贿赂。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
3 delve
v.深入探究,钻研
  • We should not delve too deeply into this painful matter.我们不应该过分深究这件痛苦的事。
  • We need to delve more deeply into these questions.这些是我们想进一步了解的。
4 investigation
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。
5 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
学英语单词
a sea of troubles
academicise
advoutries
afterdamps
akrotiri pen.
army fever
barrier ice
bicycle parking
bromyls
cervicis
character unit
chromel/alumel thermocouple
chungo
clock-hand
clothing indices
colloquialized
comes off it
conduct a study
congratulate yourself
countermarch
cyclic expansion
danelian
delphinidin-monoglucoside
development system step
directional separation filter
dropcy
eddy flux
Edison phonograph
eideses
electroporation
evenomate
farin
finish with sb
flash polymerization
foundation-laying
gale
gas seepage
globosum
glucous
gradual case analysis
guancos
hexabromobiphenyls
inklike
interdepartmental profit
Jack of all trades and master of none
knocky
laminated material
leaking-out
low temperature reaction
lower our flag
make oneself known to
Marble City
Marinduque I.
menons
metachloral parachloral
mirante
mixed-strand bar
multi-branched
nectria castaneicola yamamoto et oyasu
Norton pulpstone
nower
on-light
orchido-epididymectomy
outer gland chamber
P. N. P.
parent comet
pen-driver
persoonias
polyposic
power peaking
pressor beams
prior user right
pulmonological
pyrogeology
rank vegetation
res incorporales
sanatron circuit
seat back cushion
sintered brass
skux
steel wire rope clip
stemphylium botryosum wallroth f. lactucum padhi et synder
strominger
sunitizing
swadlincotes
talk, Table
teared up
testifiable
thin-disk population
thin-film carrier
Trillekamine
twirls
two-quantum annihilation
ultracontigs
uncomputerised
unrescindable
vacheron
was offered
wedge shaped belt drive
well-fleshed
wembere r.
xanthogramma fasciata