时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(二)月


英语课

1. Hillary Clinton says she is heartsick at a motorcycle officer died in a crash this morning while escorting her motorcade. The Democratic Presidential hopeful plans to visit the fallen officier's family. The officier apparently 1 crashed into a concrete barrier near downtown Dallas.


 


2. A snowstorm is moving across the Northeast and it's worse than predicted. Up to ten inches of snow could fall in New York City. It's causing major airport delays and traffic snarls 2. And schools in Ohio and Connecticut closed.


 


3. A Minnesota woman faces charges in connection with a deadly school bus crash. Police say the driver of a van failed to stop at a stop sign Tuesday and slammed into a bus, killing 3 four students. Officials say the woman doesn't have a valid 4 license 5 and may be in the country illegally.


 


4. Our computer keyboard is about to be a thing of the past? Microsoft's Bill Gates predicts in the coming years computer users will interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards.


 



1 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
2 snarls
n.(动物的)龇牙低吼( snarl的名词复数 );愤怒叫嚷(声);咆哮(声);疼痛叫声v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的第三人称单数 );咆哮着说,厉声地说
  • I don't know why my hair snarls easily. 我不知道我的头发为什么容易缠结。 来自辞典例句
  • She combed the snarls out of her hair. 她把头发的乱结梳理通。 来自辞典例句
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
4 valid
adj.有确实根据的;有效的;正当的,合法的
  • His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
  • Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗?
5 license
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
学英语单词
absolute plumb line deflection
Acrostichinae
Adenan
Alfenol
alveolar surfactant
baroreflexes
bespeckling
Burgh St Margaret
car-ride
Cayley-Klein parameters
Cefdizime
Chipinge
com-munities
come close to blows
confidential memorandum
convallariae radix
copper chloride-oxygen sweetening
cross-birth
crossing buoy
Danysz bacillus
delayed healing
dialkyl group
discrete order policy
disjoint event
double reinforcement beam
dragqueen
dry cleaner's
elimination of air
engorges
Eugenia operculata
exclusion principle
fixing of insulated structure without metal frame
formation light
geometric mean of U.S.weighted index
gerretts
get ahead in the world
grid ticks
ham facing
hand transmitter-receiver
hand-bolt
high-fiving
hospitil
hydraulic single column press
individual record
INRI
interspeech
komoto
kosters
Laish
leland
madines
man-machine environment
manual manipulator
mascobado
microtoroids
molecule weight
mordovias
mucronulatum
multiwall sack
nasothurbinal
nozzle divergence half angle
objective audiometry
Omcilon
optical sound-film camera
ornithological ecology
ovariotomies
paracanthoma
passenger transportation
pensch
phaius tankervilleae
pivoted motion
plainings
preaggregation
pseudocompatibility
pseudodementias
radiation-emitting
regional model life table
repressor gene
roger de mortimers
root peeler
sea drift
seed ferns
small angle x-ray scattering
soft information
Solre-sur-Sambre
steny
stock character
sulfisoxazole diethanolamine
superfrontal
supertension line
surface-bound
swing for the fence
tapered pattern handle
Teutonicizes
unattracted
undermillet rice
venae obturatoriiae
virtual card
waited around
wave ridge
zurracapote