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
-fix
abdominal aortic
acrylic monomer
aluflex
American dillweed oil
angiotelectasia
anticlinal limb
automated guided vehicle
azotemia
Bacillus vermiculosus
Bazarnyye Mataki
biotecture
Bottni's operation
BPCE
branch condition true
bullingdons
calorimetric gas meter
camolar
carbon ring assembly
cathode ray character matrix
cepstral analysis
chimeric molecule
chlorothalonil
circuit length
commodities option
comparative rhetoric
contone printer
counter coil
cross control rod
crs
Dan Dume
dental crown
depriving of
dilution of precision
diplomycin
display counter
drinking-water
dynamic statement mix
eesily
electrical drainage
erection equipment
Etaples
exploited class
fat pocket
filter concentrate storage
flutter test
former name
function-preventing fault
gage factor
gymnosporangium ameleanchieris fischer
hackable
hemi-demi-semi
historical necessity
hygr-
Hypermastigia
international double taxation
iron-fluoprotein
isofacies map
Japanese croaker
Jucuaran
jumping into
juxtaglomerular cell hyperplasia
keeps quiet
langstones
lock nut
malt-dust
massicotite
Maze-gawa
melibionic
menhaden oil
metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor
millimeter wire gauge
nonunionist
overdates
points counterbalance
put bond
range of oscillation
Rawlinna
rc-circuit
Reflex Blue paste AG
relative reality
roomba
routing control
saltville
sequential memory location
snots
speed reading
summation actinometer
the mostest
three wire method
trades union
uncombined oxide cathode
underpadding
united kingdom standard towage conditions
Urocit-K
vanderfords
vapor-pressure curve
variable span wing
VCNS
wast-coat
well-rehearsed
wyosine