Also on the front page, after early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration’s tough immigration policies, a recent blitz of measures has antagonized immigrant groups and many of Mr. Obama's Hispanic supporters.
And the biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections. And some of its physicists are starting to desert the project at least temporarily. After 15 years and nine billion dollars, the giant particle accelerator outside Geneva has yet to collide any particles at all.
Pledge 作名词,保证、誓言
to collide 碰撞
blitz 闪电战
physicist 物理学家
Blitz:a big effort to make people notice something or buy something
e.g. a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz
The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz.
We decided to have a blitz on the kitchen (= to clean the kitchen thoroughly).
Antagonize 使对抗; 对...起反作用; 使敌对; 中和
e.g. Do not antagonize your customers.
Riddled: 布满的;充斥的,泛滥的
e.g. riddled with sth.: very full of something bad or unpleasant
The whole house was riddled with damp.
By this time her body was riddled with cancer.
riddled with holes: full of small holes
The wall of the fort was riddled with bullet holes.
Particle accelerator 粒子加速器(谁能告诉我这个机器到底干哈的)
posted @ 2009-08-05 17:59
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A possible explanation for that wrong-way crash in Westchester County last week. Officials say the woman at the wheel was drunk and had marijuana in her system. Diane Schuler’s blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit and authorities say she'd smoked marijuana less than an hour before the crash. With five children aboard, she drove her minivan the wrong way for more than two miles before crashing into an SUV.
Newly released court documents showed that ghost writers paid by a pharmaceutical company had a hand in 20 scientific papers backing hormone replacement therapy for women. That benefited the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth. It paid the ghost writers. It also markets two hormone replacement drugs. A later federal study said the benefits have been overstated and that hormone therapy poses significant risks.
At the wheel 在驾驶; 控制; 掌管
If I fall asleep at the wheel wake me up.
With her at the wheel, the company began to prosper.
Marijuana 大麻
minivan 小型货车
SUV:Sports Utility Vehicle 运动型多功能汽车
Court document 诉论记录,法院公文,法院文书
Ghost writer 为人代写的作者
Pharmaceutical 制药的
hormone:激素
therapy:疗法
overstated:夸大的
have a hand in
参与或介入...;对...有一定责
搭配:pose + risk
e.g.
Pollutants in the river pose a real risk to the fish.
posted @ 2009-08-05 17:41
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