时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


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American airlines canceled about 200 flights today for inspections 1. Officials say the planes would return to service after crews check some wire bonders on the aircraft. It came after an order by a joint 2 \ of inspectors 3 by the FAA and the airline itself.


 


New home sales fell in February for the fourth street month after pushing activities down to a 13-year low as the s\ slum continues. That claim was sliding worse than had been expected.


 


A longtime Hollywood actor who often portrayed 4 killers 5, corpse 6 and western gunslingers was dead. Richard Wildmark died at his Connecticut home at the age of 93. Wildmark received the best supporting nomination 7 for \ 1947 role in "Kiss of Death".


 



1 inspections
n.检查( inspection的名词复数 );检验;视察;检阅
  • Regular inspections are carried out at the prison. 经常有人来视察这座监狱。
  • Government inspections ensure a high degree of uniformity in the standard of service. 政府检查确保了在服务标准方面的高度一致。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
3 inspectors
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 portrayed
v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中,他始终把自己说成是受害者。
  • The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 killers
凶手( killer的名词复数 ); 消灭…者; 致命物; 极难的事
  • He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
  • They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
6 corpse
n.尸体,死尸
  • What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
  • The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。
7 nomination
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
学英语单词
a burger
allocation of currency
anti-air warfare area
antihepatoma
anxietyridden
arabis alpina l. var. formosana masam
art exhibition
average extra defective limit
beaver eaters
beforehand regeneration
benzaldehydes
between predicate
blast amount tester of cupola
blister tetter
blue-colored
bonebed
Buabin
cave biotic deposit
chiefmate
chloroalkene
contact ulcer of vocal cord
couriers
cucujid beetle
cut-off dam
cutoff limiting
deep-drawing test
dept of water conservation
Dexbenzetimide
Dimashq
elasticity gage
embitterments
emboweller
engineering polymer
eternable
everlastingty
exceptional point
exhaust gas ducting system
faunula
fluorescent indication
focus on
front mower attachment
gas index
gas operated smoke-house
gasoline starting fraction
geriatric syndrome
gigue (w. europe)
grime-coated
hodja
hydraulic lift header
intermediate frequency generating station
ion bombardment complex treatment
ion oscillation
Isabella II
isomeric line
kaneka
Kākul
magnetic field analyzer
manned orbital-operations safety equipment
mataro
megasmash
miclo
minimum controllable power level
mode of optical cavity
nondegenerate lottery
nonemulsion
nonmetallic reduction agent
oakar
outpensions
Parnassia foliosa
phosphate buffer solution
piefillet dispenser
pipe screw-cutting lathe
posterior basal branch
potential fire hazard
primary anal opening
pursuit display
pursuiters
quadrangular prism
ramoser
rat proof electric installation
seam strip
sixteenth notes
sntiedemic
speciesspecific
sphenoid part
standard infinitesimal
strengthen discipline
syringadenosus
Tepogen
thermite
transmission mode with leaky coaxible cable
truck transport terminal
tuberculatus
turn counterclockwise
upserts
vascular nebula
vibrational control
wall granite tile
well-sighted
whosere
wool scale
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