时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月


英语课

1. Ben Bernanke sees the beginning of the end of the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve chairman says economic activity in the US and around the world appears to be leveling out and the prospects 1 for a return to growth in the near term appear good. Though he warns difficult challenges still lie ahead.


 2. President Obama is describing the elaborate homecoming of the freed Lockerbie bomber 2 in Libya as "highly objectionable". He was freed from a Scotland prison because he's dying of prostate cancer. 


 3. A possible glimpse of the defense 3 for Casey Anthony. Attorney used for the Florida mom charged with killing 4 her two-year-old daughter Caylee claimed Friday that she could not have killed the child because the toddler's remains 5 were left in the woods while she was in jail.


 4. This python put the squeeze on people looking for cash at this ATM machine in Serbia. Customers found the six-and-a-half-foot python sprawled 6 over the machine in the center of town. Firefighters eventually captured the reptile 7.  



1 prospects
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
2 bomber
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
3 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
4 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。
5 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
6 sprawled
v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词);蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着)
  • He was sprawled full-length across the bed. 他手脚摊开横躺在床上。
  • He was lying sprawled in an armchair, watching TV. 他四肢伸开正懒散地靠在扶手椅上看电视。
7 reptile
n.爬行动物;两栖动物
  • The frog is not a true reptile.青蛙并非真正的爬行动物。
  • So you should not be surprised to see someone keep a reptile as a pet.所以,你不必惊奇有人养了一只爬行动物作为宠物。
学英语单词
ablatitious
aeroperformance
alloparent care
anlike
azulon
Bactrian camel
bearinglike
bog brushes
CANTRAN
cardiomeasurator
Caryophyllaceae
casebook
chimneyed
class gnetopsidas
coaly lignite
column type
compaind race
cough syncope
counterstealth
counts corrected for coincidence
Culswick
decaserpyl
defined benefit
delavan
denturist
dislocated shoulder
docteur
dotted line report
ease one's mind
elvitegravir
encoding format of tickets
Endamoeba histolytica
Ficus tikoua
fifteen-sixteen
fixedtype metal-clad switchgear
flush slag
flux flow ratio
gallinula chloropuses
gas turbine operation
glash
Gum Lake
Handest
Hartia nankwanica
high pressure reactor
Hildebrandt's test
horizontal centering amplifier
horizontal invertor
hot plasticity
Islamicizes
joggle frame
jujuism
just freezing solid
Kōtsu-zan
load extension curve
loading rate limiter
Lombrosian school
magnetoelectric
maianthemum harae
mandolist
mendeleviums
mockheroic
mountain battery
multiviews
muricola ruminantium
number of cycle of washing
one threaf sizing
oxykaersutite
papakaingas
pencil glide
percent of firing shrinkage
performance-linked pay
pile puller
plani-
porous-type reservoir
positive phase sequence impedance
practical joke
pre.amp.
Présailles
razorbills
rhythmoiphone
ribbon cable connector
Saccolabiopsis
Salinidol
self extinction
serial processor
sex plus
sharp-lip inlet
simulated output program
sliding gate measuring valve
Spennymoor
St-Médard-de-Guizières
surfles
swabby
tablinum
the way to sb's heart
thrift industry
tripersonalists
triply derived key
urubupunga fallss
westvale
winch cover
yolk blastopore