时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课

1.New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is giving late-night comedians 1 plenty of material, but in political circles no one is laughing. The State Assembly leader says if Spitzer doesn't resign over a call-girl scandal, he is ready to call for an impeachment 2. Spitzer is holed up in his New York apartment.


 


2.Barack Obama and John McCain are the big winners in yesterday's Mississippi presidential primary. Obama won almost all the black vote but just a quarter of the white vote. He and Hillary Clinton are now focusing on the big delegate count in Pennsylvania where the primary is still six weeks away.


 


3.Andre Carson is the new Congressman 3 for Indiana. The grandson of the late Congresswoman Julia Carson won a special election to succeed her. Carson becomes only the second Muslim ever elected to Congress.


 


4.Dawn Wells is best known for playing Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island". But the proverbial girl next door is now on probation 4 in Idaho. She was allegedly caught with marijuana in her car when she was pulled over for erratic 5 driving last October.


 



n.喜剧演员,丑角( comedian的名词复数 )
  • The voice was rich, lordly, Harvardish, like all the boring radio comedians'imitations. 声音浑厚、威严,俨然是哈佛出身的气派,就跟无线电里所有的滑稽演员叫人已经听腻的模仿完全一样。 来自辞典例句
  • He distracted them by joking and imitating movie and radio comedians. 他用开玩笑的方法或者模仿电影及广播中的滑稽演员来对付他们。 来自辞典例句
n.弹劾;控告;怀疑
  • Impeachment is considered a drastic measure in the United States.在美国,弹劾被视为一种非常激烈的措施。
  • The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career.他遭弹劾后得到的判决毁了他的政治生涯。
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
n.缓刑(期),(以观后效的)察看;试用(期)
  • The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱,而且将他缓刑察看一年。
  • His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后,他的工资增加了800元。
adj.古怪的,反复无常的,不稳定的
  • The old man had always been cranky and erratic.那老头儿性情古怪,反复无常。
  • The erratic fluctuation of market prices is in consequence of unstable economy.经济波动致使市场物价忽起忽落。
学英语单词
a plant that lives two years
acuition
affiliation order
all air system
ameloblastic hemangioma
anglers
australosepsis frontalis
back hook
BART Bay Area Rapid Transit
bidirrectional triode thyristor
black surround
boiler room grating
booster box
Brenner's tumor
broadwell
Bulbophyllum bittnerianum
certainly
Chlorguanid
coastal belt
conjoined element
crewing
cue code inserter
dazed bread
deformation-time dependency
design head of pumping station
dioxathion
East Kālihāta
egoscan
Ellulian
epidermal growth factor (egf)
estately
exfiltrates
fan mails
flanged sleeve
flint mill
foreshifts
goal oriented
gonel
group of smoker
grout stopper
guy fawkes'night
hydrographic curve
initial exanthem
irreluctant
macintosh blanket
made a pig of himself
magic guide bush
marginal desirability
measuring beam
media communications processor
mercator
metaglygh
micro-mechanics
micro-rotation
milk saucepan
milling work
mineral streaking
Morse taper shank keyway cutter
Mudi
nakare
Newburn
nimnod
Novopoxide
null axis
obfustication
penalty shoot-outs
periosteosis
permit aluminium alloy
petty-minded
Plastic Paddy
plunger spring
polymericular weight
potestative
precious metal contract
predictive policy analysis
PSPMT
quinolones
reconceptualised
reducing union
Reichschancellor
reliability specification
right sibling
science and technology park
self-aligned contact
semi-quotes
share library user report
Shekārī, Darreh-ye
shoal reef
shock proof
singing of oscillation
skin packaging machine
stamp hammer
street shoes
strengthfully
suit someone's palate
thrown wall
Toro Timmi
trask
tungsten sulfide
uniform command language
vernor
voiue