AP 2010-03-19_在线英语听力室_免费在线英语听力学习网站

(单词翻译:双击或拖选)

1. Democrats¹ in the House may pass health care reform without actually voting on it. The idea is to vote on a rule for debate and that will be enough. Republicans are calling it sleight² of hand *.

2. Crews in South Carolina are trying to figure out a bizarre fatality³ involving a plane and a jogger on the beach. A man was killed instantly who was hit from behind by this plane which was making an emergency landing. No charges have been filed yet.

3. Tiger Woods is returning to golf at a familiar spot. He announced today that he will play The Masters - tournament he has won four times. He hasn't teed off on tours since before crashing his SUV and taking time off to deal with personal matters.

4. No, this isn't some big ad for the Republican Party. These elephants are part of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum Bailey Circus, march through Washington today ahead of those shows in the nation's capital.

点击

收听单词发音

1 democrats
n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。 The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。来自《简明英汉词典》

2 sleight
n.技巧，花招
参考例句：
With a little statistical sleight of hand they could make things look all right.只要在统计上耍些小小的花招，他们就能瞒天过海。 In the theater of the media there is an economic sleight of hand.传播媒介在经济上耍了一个大花招。

3 fatality
n.不幸，灾祸，天命
参考例句：
She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。 He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。