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. The Los Angeles county coroner's finding that Michael Jackson's death was a homicide could eventually lead to criminal charges for Jackson's personal doctor. Doctor Conrad Murray told investigators 1 he gave Jackson a mix of drugs to treat the pop star's insomnia 2 in the hours before his death.


2. NASA will try again Wednesday morning to launch the shuttle Discovery. The Space Agency had scrubbed Tuesday morning's launch because of thunderstorms. Discovery will carry seven astronauts as well as thousands of pounds of space station supplies to the International Space Station.


3. An Associated Press source says President Barack Obama plans to nominate Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term. Obama will make the announcement today during a break from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard.


4. The auto 3 industry will continue to try and lure 4 customers in without the help of "Cash for Clunkers". The government program which gave auto sales the joys ended last night. Through Monday, dealers 5 are reportedly selling more than 600,000 vehicles in just a month for the government rebates 6.



1 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 insomnia
n.失眠,失眠症
  • Worries and tenseness can lead to insomnia.忧虑和紧张会导致失眠。
  • He is suffering from insomnia.他患失眠症。
3 auto
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
4 lure
n.吸引人的东西,诱惑物;vt.引诱,吸引
  • Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
  • He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。
5 dealers
n.商人( dealer的名词复数 );贩毒者;毒品贩子;发牌者
  • There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
  • The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败,与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
6 rebates
n.退还款( rebate的名词复数 );回扣;返还(退还的部份货价);折扣
  • The VAT system offers advantages, such as rebates on exports. 增值税有其优点,如对出口商品实行回扣。 来自辞典例句
  • In more recent years rate rebates have been introduced for households. 近年地方税的减免已适用于家庭。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
adding up to
agueweeds
air-borne sound
aldesulphone
allozymes
amyloid precursor protein
anterior cardinal vein
aperture vignette
arapey grande r.
at writing
backfiles
Biu Plat.
Black Pencil
bluff out of
bulbar hemianesthesia
bulk transfer
calibration traceability
cargo cluster
CITP
closure umbilical artery
CMME
Colletotricum phomoides
component video-recording
counter fossula
crowning glory
crux of heart
cynodon plectostachyums
diatonic passing note
disbent
double-outrigger canoe
eco-citizen
etagere
factness
far vane
focal curve
fond hope
get ... sea legs
graphlin, graphline
Gumla
He that loves the tree loves the branch
height adjuster
herpetotheriid
immunorepertoires
industrial computer enclosure
infinitive distress
internal stack
irregularity degree
jeremijenko
kaundas
keep...in subjection
kill the enemy
kinesthesiologist
lollo
low pressure asbestos rubber jointing sheet
Lysionotus involucratus
marine kitchens waste disposal shredder
Moniezia
natural steam power plant
No-Tail
non-ferrous
north-easterner
old latins
onion-domed
operative defect
oscilloscope pattern
outer layer of boundary layer
p-n type junction
perignation girdle
pokable
politesse
pontaconitine
precrash
pregula
pseudocoelocyte
quincite
rail inspection
rectangular resolution
relyon
repeat yourself
rock association
root canal treatment
Sholom Asch
silic layer
Smolenskaya Oblast'
snowbear
sothery
statement of scale
string galvanometer
submarine cable telegraph system
sulfanilyl-
suspended sediment sampler
sustain pedal
switch hitter
tax payment by self-assessment
templet milling
Thionembutal
thyme camphors
town and country planning
triaxial cable
twear
usurious income
wet purification of combusting gas