时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(九月)


英语课

1. The owner of one of two egg farms linked to Salmonella illnesses is not talking, citing the Fifth Amendment 1 at a House hearing on the outbreak. A recall pulled back more than half a billion eggs in August.


 


2. Disagreement was in the Obama administration on Afghanistan, that’s according to the latest book from Bob Woodward. It says the president insisted on an exit strategy, so he would not lose the whole Democratic Party.


 


3. A state audit 2 shows the city of Bell in California mismanaged more than 50 million dollars in bond money. All were giving officials high salaries. Some of those officials are arrested for how they use public dollars.


 


4. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a lamp at this dog park is getting power from what dogs are leaving behind. Waste is turned into methane 3, helping 4 the light burn bright, getting rid of a messy problem.

 



1 amendment
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
2 audit
v.审计;查帐;核对;旁听
  • Each year they audit our accounts and certify them as being true and fair.他们每年对我们进行账务审核,以确保其真实无误。
  • As usual,the yearly audit will take place in December.跟往常一样,年度审计将在十二月份进行。
3 methane
n.甲烷,沼气
  • The blast was caused by pockets of methane gas that ignited.爆炸是由数袋甲烷气体着火引起的。
  • Methane may have extraterrestrial significance.甲烷具有星际意义。
4 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
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学英语单词
accelerator for electron therapy
accumulator charger
antonin dvoraks
Arrhenius frequehcy factor
arsenal
arsphenamine
assimilators
audio generator
baggage agent
bechhofers
bijou
Bondville
calf serum
cambridge roll V
carlyons
co-venturers
Codonopsis canescens
computrainer
conceptual database design
ConstraintLisp
control data mathematical programming
crista basilaris
crossed prisms
damped train
DAW (dry active waste)
emerald
enantiomorphic(enantiomorphous)form
entelodont
ever-worsenings
exchange control authorities
expansion sleeve
experimental power reactor
ferreri
freightless
GNAA
gold-prospector
groin centring
guerins
high speed joint
horizontal centrifugal pump
indirect transmissions
islet adenoma
jointers
junnila
lacrimal margin
land island
leptogaster trimucronotata
little-end
longitudinal illumination
m.ver
mail business
Makongani
medial meniscus
motor pedicab
myosuroides
N-dt
nongovernmental organizations (ngos)
noona
open up a can of worms
orthodromic map projection
outer predicate
Paracooperia
Pentland Hills
Penuba, Selat
periorbit
picture file
plasterless
Poos
reap laurels
reprecipitated
Ritz crackers
roofslab
routinists
satisfyingness
Schiermonnikoog
scholia
shadow checks
skeleted crystal
Smethwick
sodium itaconate
starting torque converter
stenos
step on somebody's toes
Stichocotyle
Stropnice
Sulawesi (Celebes)
Sulcus calcarinus
supplementary fare
supposed value
technical workers with specific grades
teletypesetting
through feed rolling cylindrical dies
unawful
union-compatible
vibration measuring apparatus
wakefuls
water-base latex dispersion
water-jet ship
weight flow rate
welcome to beijing
wieck
zip cuffs