时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:初级商务英语听力2006


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Hewlett-Packard announced that private investigators 1 that they hired to find the source of leaks to the press broke the law as part of their research. The investigators pretended to be Hewlett-Packard board members in order to convince phone companies to turn over private phone records of journalists from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications covering the hi-tech world. According to an HP spokesman, "We are absolutely horrified 2 that the records of journalists were accessed without their authorization 3." Chairwoman of the HP board Patricia Dunn, who ordered the investigation 4 into the leaks, said that she was "appalled 5" by the news, and resisted calls for her resignation. The California Attorney General's office is investigating the incident.



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》
a.(表现出)恐惧的
  • The whole country was horrified by the killings. 全国都对这些凶杀案感到大为震惊。
  • We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons. 地方监狱的普遍状况让我们震惊。
n.授权,委任状
  • Anglers are required to obtain prior authorization from the park keeper.垂钓者必须事先得到公园管理者的许可。
  • You cannot take a day off without authorization.未经批准你不得休假。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
v.使惊骇,使充满恐惧( appall的过去式和过去分词)adj.惊骇的;丧胆的
  • The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
  • They were appalled by the reports of the nuclear war. 他们被核战争的报道吓坏了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias
-ated
a round
adrenaline junkies
alkaptonase
alonso model
arithmetic constant word
arming range
calcite saturation level
changer lever
character-coded
chemical excitation
coachbuildings
coefficient of volume decrease
confuseness
cooperation association
core polarization
creutzfeldt-jacob
Deblin
dethronest
developing factor
differential weight distribution
Diocletian, (Gaius Aurelius valerius Diocletianus)
drainage slope
driners' thigh
dry movement
Dutch hands
enodable
estlin
evening shifts
extra feed tank
family Tilletiaceae
feeding niche
focal reducer
formaldehydes
garcinia
hairy about the heel
hortas
hot tower
in a haze
infracristal
intercondylar Y fracture
internal bleeding
jack chuck
lamoille
laservisions
lavette
Lei, Day
Leicester
long drink
LS antigen
Lucy Show
luvumbu
make enemies
make her market of
man of the year
memory configuration
myelines
needle bar connecting link adjusting screw
Netlib
non-example
oscillating control servomechanism
ostringer
pentagraphic
pernambuco
pluripotency,multipotency
Potentilla reptans
pta.
reconstructionist
reservoir solution gas
retention form
ritmoselle
rotation anemometer
salt-water front
sanitray towel
sashimi
scarletwork
shortrange project
snivels
soulangeana
St. Croix
tasiocera (dasymolophilus) kibunensis
thorium-lead age method
three-jaw self-centering chuck
tigershark
timber support
timed pulse amplitude analyser
total cyanide
town-head
trailbaston
transductional
triclinics
two concentric eyes
two-force member
unoc
unrepairable
ventral root of sac
watch-keepers
yaffingale
zarphs