时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2010


英语课

On this date in 1856, a grassroots anti-establishment, low government political movement convened 1 in Philadelphia to nominate its first presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore, the party was called the Know-Nothings.


On this date in 1861, a grassroots anti-establishment, low government political movement convened in Montgomery to inaugurate its first leader Jefferson Davis.  That group was the Confederate States of America.  What a coincidence.


Let‘s play “Oddball.”


We begin in Britain with Murdoch‘s Sky News coverage 2 of the Obama-Biden stimulus 3 availability


yesterday.  Anchor Kay Burley discussing the U.S. economy with correspondent Greg Milam.  Neither of them realizing it was the first day of Lent also known by Catholics as Ash Wednesday.


 


-Waiting for Joe Biden to introduce the president within the next few moments.  The vice 4 president as you said—what happened to his head?  I’m sure that’s what everybody’s asking at home.


-He’s been up to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics and was the face of the administration there.  So, whether there was some accident or what little incidents being up in Vancouver, we don’t know.


-It’s probably happened on those T trace down the lounge or something.  Certainly, it looks like quite a bruise 5, doesn’t it?  Anyway—


You see what happens, Henry VIII—you see what happens when you kicked out the Catholic Church? Forget about that Papal assignment you two are hoping for.  Eventually, somebody called in.  She apologized, claimed she was a very bad Catholic and went to break.


Speaking of breaks, Internets LOL, and keeping with fashion week here in New York, there’s a fashion show from some other location on the planet.  Two models strutting 6 their stuff on the runway, on the runway, styling the latest trends with this fall, or make that one model styling the latest—medic?



1 convened
召开( convene的过去式 ); 召集; (为正式会议而)聚集; 集合
  • The chairman convened the committee to put the issue to a vote. 主席召集委员们开会对这个问题进行表决。
  • The governor convened his troops to put down the revolt. 总督召集他的部队去镇压叛乱。
2 coverage
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
3 stimulus
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
4 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 bruise
n.青肿,挫伤;伤痕;vt.打青;挫伤
  • The bruise was caused by a kick.这伤痕是脚踢的。
  • Jack fell down yesterday and got a big bruise on his face.杰克昨天摔了一跤,脸上摔出老大一块淤斑。
6 strutting
加固,支撑物
  • He, too, was exceedingly arrogant, strutting about the castle. 他也是非常自大,在城堡里大摇大摆地走。
  • The pompous lecturer is strutting and forth across the stage. 这个演讲者在台上趾高气扬地来回走着。
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action oriented program
alban hills
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allocable profit oil
american society mechanical engineers
annual fish
blue jasmine
Brimsdown
CAIRS
calamitously
calidris alpina
Chinese elm
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Courcy
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different sections of the population
diplomatic parlance
directionlessness
dose-independent ADR
dramatized teaching
drifts away
driving pile
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extensive function
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full functor
Goa powder
Godφy
gravity type
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indie rock
inelastic liquid
internal focus
inversion barrier
isobaric analog resonance
itterly
lipid bilayer
log-they
long - range planning
mainframe computer
matched boarding
Most Active
multiple connector
multitranscript
Mīrpur Batoro
National Group
newly industrialized country
number of twists
ocreas
orthoxylenes
outwent
Patton Seamounts
persistent overheating
plant hunter
Poya, Circonscription de
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romantico-
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