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. North (Korea) denies reports that it's getting ready to test a long-range missile. But the U. S. and Japan are taking no chances. Both are urging the Koreans not to go forward with any testing.

2. Discovery has a July 1st launch date. NASA officials made the announcement today. This will be the first shuttle mission in nearly a year. Engineers have been working on fixing the foam 1 on the shuttle's external tank. Flying foam hit the wing of the Shuttle Columbia in 2003, causing the shuttle to disintegrate 2 on re-entry to earth.

3. Former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling says he thought about killing 3 himself after his company crumble 4d and the government began pressuring him. In an interview with the Wall Street Journals, Skilling says he went into a deep depression. Skilling will be sentenced in October for lying to investors 6.

4. It's a day fit for Queen in England. Today was the last day of celebrations for Queen Elizabeth's 80th birthday. Royal Air Force jets marked the occasion with a flyover 7. The Queen was actually born in April, but celebration always happens in June when the weather is better.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. long-range : adj
A long-range piece of military equipment or vehicle is able to hit or detect a target a long way away or to travel a long way in order to do something.
e.g. He is very keen to reach agreement with the US on reducing long-range nuclear missiles.

2. take no chances ---不冒险, 力求万全
take a chance : phrase
When you take a chance, you try to do something although there is a large risk of danger or failure.
e.g. You take a chance on the weather if you holiday in the UK.

3. disintegrate : verb
If an object or substance disintegrates 8, it breaks into many small pieces or parts and is destroyed.

4. re-entry : n-uncount
Re-entry is used to refer to the moment when a spacecraft comes back into the earth's atmosphere after being in space.
e.g. The station would burn up on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.

5. crumble : verb
to begin to fail or get weaker or to come to an end
e.g. a crumbling 9 business / relationship

6. flyover : n-count
A flyover is the same as a flypast. (AM)
flypast : n-count
A flypast is a flight by a group of aircraft in a special formation which takes place on a ceremonial occasion or as a display. (BRIT; in AM, use flyover)



v./n.泡沫,起泡沫
  • The glass of beer was mostly foam.这杯啤酒大部分是泡沫。
  • The surface of the water is full of foam.水面都是泡沫。
v.瓦解,解体,(使)碎裂,(使)粉碎
  • The older strata gradually disintegrate.较老的岩层渐渐风化。
  • The plane would probably disintegrate at that high speed.飞机以那么高速飞行也许会四分五裂。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
vi.碎裂,崩溃;vt.弄碎,摧毁
  • Opposition more or less crumbled away.反对势力差不多都瓦解了。
  • Even if the seas go dry and rocks crumble,my will will remain firm.纵然海枯石烂,意志永不动摇。
(把…)弄碎, (使)碎成细屑( crumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 衰落; 坍塌; 损坏
  • He crumbled the bread in his fingers. 他用手指把面包捻碎。
  • Our hopes crumbled when the business went bankrupt. 商行破产了,我们的希望也破灭了。
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
n.立交桥,天桥
  • It took workers more than one year to build this flyover.建造这座立交桥破费工人一年多时间。
  • All that came to his bakery should go over a flyover first.所有来他店的人都必须先经过一座立交桥。
n.(使)破裂[分裂,粉碎],(使)崩溃( disintegrate的名词复数 )v.(使)破裂[分裂,粉碎],(使)崩溃( disintegrate的第三人称单数 )
  • Particles rain down from the slug and it finally disintegrates. 颗粒从上面纷纷下落,最后腾涌消失。 来自辞典例句
  • When the uranium disintegrates, it changes into lead. 当铀蜕变时,它变成了铅。 来自辞典例句
adj.摇摇欲坠的
  • an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
  • The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。
学英语单词
adult intelligence
air punch
amebly
auto-exchange telephone
automatic computing
bergaptol
black-necked stilt
cassinetta
celltransformation
cerodontha (dizygomyza) omissa
change pinion
choke joint
clearance papers
clouding ups
coinmaker
combustible gas mixture
condescendment
corsino
Davaran
day-book
dazzling white
design size
dialcom electronic mail
direct acquisition
do someone proud
dominator
drawing diameter control
eclipsing variable
electron-sensitive
episternum
eventhood
expected elapsed time
feel free (to do something)
field surgery
gabbana
generalized edema with abdominal distention
ginaca
hand bore
hemipsocus chloroticus
hetaeillin
heterophil(antibody)
hydrogene mineral
Hymenaic
i feel good
inclined ship lift with turntable
incompetence of cardiac valves
inconceptible
irregardful
jackals
jaspure
kap
korakuen
launch plan
Le Grand-Lucé
lenticular regeneration
livestock industry farming
Loddon
metaclase cleavage
methodology of social science
micrometeorogram
mitsuzuka
moonball
neighbourhood court
novel of manners
nozzle flapper mechanism
of no avail
outside report
plateletcrit
Plimmerton
pontoon ship
prerequisite course
prurient
rhythmic deposition
riding hawse full
rodeleros
rotating-field pump
sarkin
satellite-borne sensor
sceneman
screen vibrator
scything
seal by wedg-like gasket and O-ring
sheetiron
solitarious
spider ferns
sputteringly
staphyloptosis
static short-circuit ratio
stratagems
stud ring
Svedberg, The(odor)
system of coalition
tail section heating line system
take a cast of
Tolinon
traditional value
two-line clamshell
Tyrtaeus
unginned
US Navy
vitani
wet construction