时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2008年(十二)月


英语课

Good morning on this Christmas Eve, I'm Reggie Aqui from the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
 
The Wall Street is limping toward the end of what has been a brutal 1 year for stocks. The Dow lost 100 points on Tuesday. US markets will close early this afternoon and won't reopen until the day after Christmas.


Who is on Santa's naughty list this year? A CNN opinion research poll finds Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is the naughtiest politician in 2008, followed by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and then former senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards.


The former Utah state trooper who police say is a suspect in Monday's deadly rush-hour shootings in Dallas is now in a hospital. Police say 37-year-old Brian Smith tried to commit suicide and he is now in serious condition at a local hospital. Police used ballistics test that links Smith to shootings where one driver was killed and another injured.


The IRS says it conducted more audits 2 this year than last, but collected nearly five percent less in taxes. It says it collected just under 56 and a half billion dollars for 2008. Your best bet for getting audited 3 this year was if you were in the income bracket between 200, 000 and a million dollars.


A Mexican beauty queen is in custody 4 after police say she was found riding in a car with 7 heavily armed men and more than 50, 000 dollars in cash. The group was stopped outside a checkpoint in Central Mexico. The 23-year-old model and the men now face arms charges. The model reportedly told police that she was traveling with the men to go shopping.


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naughty list



1 brutal
adj.残忍的,野蛮的,不讲理的
  • She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
  • They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼,骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
2 audits
n.审计,查账( audit的名词复数 )v.审计,查账( audit的第三人称单数 )
  • Requires that use of all bond funds is subject to independent audits. 需要使用的所有债券基金是受独立审计。 来自互联网
  • Support the locations during customer-visits, audits and quality-improvement programs. 支持客户参观,稽核和提高品质等项目。 来自互联网
3 audited
v.审计,查账( audit的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The accounts have to be audited by a firm of external auditors. 这些账目必须由一家外聘审计员的公司来稽查。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • E. g. few if any charities collection publishes audited accounts. 例如很少义款收集有公布经过查核的帐目。 来自互联网
4 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
学英语单词
a & h
a nasty bit of work
aeroboat
annealing range
art weave
automatic back-action mallet
automatic synchronizing set
belly of the beast
biceps femoris reflex
briber
calibration of simulator
cattail family
centralized hydraulic system
Cephamondol
chaoboridae
chorda serica chirurgicalis
colead
coneine
crush roller
discoid lupus erythematosus
dollarise
double quartet
drive crank
dublike
e.p.
envelope material
epiphyseal plate
european monetary system (ems)
exotic cheroot
field strength unit
folding foot rest
furthy
Gaferut
gang tool
ginger groups
gnaw away at
goldless
guard of honor
hard rolling car
heavy-duty tool block
heightened
hillsite
Hu Hanmin
ingentle
interruptings
jirka
kelyphitic(celyphitic)structure
keynesian-style
knyvett
lalie
lanpo
leak-tight system
Lederject
libelling
likuta
lose returns
low pressure separator
Mangkalihat Tg.
melt back diffusion method
merchandise production
mesocaine
Mobula hypostoma
multiplexer terminal unit
nonperforated
nuchal flexure
numeric field data
O. B. E.
observations required to interpret the observation
Olympian Games
phats
philosophisers
pipe end threading machine
Planobispora
procalcifying
quarter-on-quarter
radiocarbon datings
raw food
reinfunded
sanguine temperament
serum leucine aminopeptidase
shaking conveyor swivel
sheep industry
sprayed-metal bonding
star drift
submerged decompression chamber
superbradyons
Taylor connection
tectostratigraphy
telescoping (pneumatic) cylinder
Thalictrum minus
themsevles
three-dimensional curve
tongue tear strength
transfixing
triassic acid
uinta
ultimate purchaser
uniform settlement
unit capital cost of plant
variable impedance transformator
withhold from doing sth
zero gate voltage source current