时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. Hezbollah's leader warns his group is ready for "open war" with Israel. That's according to an audiotape that was released shortly after Israel blasted Hassan Nasrallah's home and office in southern Beirut. The leader wasn't hurt.

2. President Bush says he's told Russian activists 1 the US cares about what type of government Russia has. The president arrived in Saintt Petersburg in advance of a G-8 summit. There's concern that Russian President Putin is backing away from democratic principles.

3. Police just released the surveillance video of a landmark 2 New York City town house being leveled by an explosion. Investigators 3 believed the homeowner might have caused the blast, so his ex-wife wouldn't get money from the property during their divorce.

4. Ben Roethlisberger says his motorcycle accident changed his life. The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback told reporters the wreck 4 was a wake-up call that showed him he might have been taking his life for granted

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. back away: phr-v
If you back away from a commitment that you made or something you involved in the past, you try to show that you are no longer committed to it or involved with it.

2. landmark: n-count
A landmark is a building or feature which is easily noticed and can be used to judge your position or the position of other buildings or features.

3. wreck: vb
A wreck is an accident in which a moving vehicle hit something and is damaged or destroyed.

4. wake-up call: n-count
If you say something is a wake-up call to a person or a group of people, you mean it will make them notice something and start to take action.



n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
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》
n.失事,遇难;沉船;vt.(船等)失事,遇难
  • Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
  • No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
学英语单词
absolvant
agroinfiltration
application for quotation
artificial fluctuation
base-one peak voltage
cachars
cherry l.
closed subvariety
coating chocolate
color metallography
condenser yarn
constructive-engagement
continuous evaporator
coordinated joint motion
crusher hammer
dermosupraoccipital bone
djordje
EDRM
electrical mains
elephantin
emergency operations system
employee pensions
endolithophytes
equal vote
experiencers
fabric axis
find relief from
fishgig
fullery room
fulmaruss
gains from proportionate stratified sampling
go on the parish
head spring
heighfer
high peak current
incidence relation
inner packaging
isaacsons
Jesuits' bark
kerargyrite
Kerrymen
late spring coldness
livecast
loading shift
los seises (spain)
lypesthes fulvus
main longitudinal girder
mangano
manisan
Marfan's syndrome
mcwalter
morrel
nacaduba berenice leei
Neoshirakia
Neuroretinoangiomatosis
nitrogen fixing capacity
non-entres
noncontradictory
norite porphyrite
o-kay
paleocontact
panel group
Peptavon
perceptual experience
perfecting
policy of grab
polyphylly
pull-no-punches
pupillarities
R star
rate of metal consumption
regiones parietalis
regular school
relief mechanism
salame
segmental aplasia
senile nanism
senior counsel
shin kyong (tibet)
Single up!
smack of
sound-deadening quilt
special-need
straighten something out
structural detail
syndetic pronoun
tachyscopes
the trek
tiller type mixer
Tomilin Glacier
total alkali
Townswomen
train mates
turned your back on
typological concept
uprr
USPharm (United States Pharmacopoeia)
Užventis
vibrating-reed type
waimea
Yellow Eye
zentall