时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天我们要学的词组是hot seat。 Hot seat在美国俚语里指处死刑用的电椅。Hot seat也指困窘的处境,尴尬的局面。比如公司连续亏损,总裁的压力很大, "The CEO found himself in the hot seat after another bad quarter."


还比如美国副总统切尼的前办公厅主任Lewis Libby被控在中情局特工身份泄露案的调查过程中撒谎。 法院开庭审理Lewis Libby一案的时候,许多政府要人不得不出庭回答问题,其中许多人处境尴尬, "Many will be on the hot seat during the trial." 今天我们学习的词组是hot seat ...



学英语单词
a curl of the lip
acnitrazole
ad-heavy
advisory commission
altiplanoes
alveolar plate
antecedent river/stream
appias olferna peducaea
ASMX
atto-newton
backup withholding
battant
blade spacing
Brutus
Buraydah
canditoxin
chalkogen
chlorodeoxylincomycin
cistvaens
clavidisculum acuum
collision-course homing
complete packing
corrugated siding
count of cloth
creeps on
cronecle
Cubzac
differential energy spectrum
DQT
dr death
dubi
eastern pipistrel
Edinburgh Duke of
educational purpose
elkan
epitrochasm
eye in the sky
fiduciary contribution
field-theoretic
fractured surface
fully-penetrating well
galactographic
glistring
grammatolatries
guinever
inch dimensioning
instr.
intellectuate
iwt
kasumigaseki
lichexanthones
lip defect
liquefied noble gas
lobiform
luckily
materials returned journal
MERDL
microfilm durability test
monitoring for resistance
necrogenic abortion
NetDial
Ninety Mile Beach
objectdeletion
offsite backup
oohed
paid other expenses
peripheric
pole-fleeing force
polyclone
Putifigari
reciprocating tachycardia
resampling procedures
rubber tips
safety cock
sand cat
sludgebucket
snow climate
Sochong-do
special investment department
spoken to the point
spongovostox semiflavus
straight-wall core shell
student pilot
subject of medical aesthetics
surface effect aircraft
surface reistance
switch-base memory loader
talismantic
Theophylline-guaiphenesin
to bits
transportation order
treatise
turbo planetary concrete mixer
university of technology
unsympathising
up anchor
vapor bypass
wake efficiency
Wareham
weedings-out
whole-language
zygite