时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. A day of remembrance around the country. President Bush laid a wreath 1 at the Pentagon for victims of the 9/11 attacks in the afternoon, and stood with first responders in New York in the morning.

2. Passengers aboard a United flight had to calm their nerves 2 when the plane was diverted 3 to Dallas. It was heading from Atlanta to San Francisco. The airline says an unclaimed hand-held computer was found on board/onboard. All 50 passengers had to get off and be rescreened before the flight could continue.

3. Police in the Bahamas say Anna Nicole Smith was in the hospital room with her son when he died on Sunday. 20-year-old Daniel Smith was in the Bahamas visiting his mother who gave birth to a little girl last week. No word on how Daniel Smith died.

4. Hurricane Florence has passed Bermuda, leaving behind blown-out windows and knocking out power. Strong winds and rain are expected to last for the next several hours. Forecasters expect Florence to lose strength as it heads northeast. It is not expected to hit the US, but it is causing high surf and strong rip 4 currents along the Eastern Seaboard.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. remembrance : n-uncount
If you do something in remembrance of a dead person, you do it as a way of showing that you want to remember them and that you respect them.

2. unclaimed : adj
If something is unclaimed, nobody has claimed it or said that it belongs to them.

3. rip current : n-count
A strong, narrow surface current that flows rapidly away from the shore, returning the water carried landward by waves. Also called rip tide, tiderip.



n.花环,花圈,花冠
  • She is weaving the flowers into a wreath.她把花编成花环。
  • She made a wreath for head.她编了一个花冠。
n.神经紧张 vt.鼓起勇气
  • What he said at the meeting strung her nerves up. 他在会议上的发言使她的神经很紧张。
  • At the end of a day's teaching, her nerves were absolutely shattered. 教了一天课,她精疲力竭。
使转移[向]( divert的过去式和过去分词 ); 娱乐; 转移(某人)的注意力; 改变(资金、材料等)的用途
  • Northbound traffic will have to be diverted onto minor roads. 北行车辆将不得不绕次要道路行驶。
  • Traffic is being diverted onto a side road because of the accident. 由于交通事故,车辆行人改走边道。
n.拉裂,破绽,激流,浪荡子;vt.撕裂,激昂地说,贬损;vi.裂开,仓促地冲过...
  • He had seen the rip in the book.他看到了书里的裂缝。
  • I tried not to rip the paper as I unwrapped it.我把纸打开的时候,尽量不把它撕破。
学英语单词
all-weather operability
appertainance
assigned summer freeboard
astreus hygrometricuss
baroport
bath stone
big with news
Bilozerske
bitemporalis hemianopsia
blendo
boiler deposit
Buelau's method
bullinger
calcium pantothenate
canaan pk.
categorial
chromatographic theory
Chu Ki-chol
clastic limestone
clay crucible
collision bulkhead
comital
complete equipment for production of alcohol
concentric squirrel cage mill
contaminated
contor
control valve plug
controlled valency
cruise attitude
d'oyly
despera
developing capacity
Donje Crnjelovo
ellipsometry
episternums
erevans
evenflo
Flow Meters
gene sequence
geoblocking
grey sheeting
H-shape steel
hamdog
Holice
horizontally split connecting rod
hypoelectrolytemia
influenza pneumonia
inspection clause
intracytoplasm
Kamyshnoye
Kuwayt, Jūn al
licopyranocoumarin
life or limb
light heavy weight
lindt
liquid waste discharge pump
low-frequency impedance
lump parameter
magnetospectrograph
makes for
Mankes
marine telephone set
middling product
multiple regressing
nasal bone
Nduru
nonmason
nontotemic
opened end
operator algebra
originality and device
pea leafminer
Pecos Plains
pignatelli
polytone
portable tea pruning machine
pre-investments
pro-Allied
rational cohomology group
registered ship
rock-hopping
room-dry condition
rotating service structure
rough bearded grass
shape for crossing ferry
sheath-reshaping converter
siltier
simazin
sonic carburetion
stiffening diaphragm
stuck in my heart
subfornical organ (sfo)
thorium lead age method
tidal current scour
to move on
tower-type batch plant
uncancerous
well counter
wet-looks
word-strings
yttrium oxalate