时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


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1. Hurricane Dean has lost some of its punch as it crosses the Yucatan Peninsula. But it's expected to gain strength as it sweeps the lower Gulf 1 of Mexico. Meanwhile Texas is breathing easier because the storm is too far south to threaten the state with anything more than high surf.

2. The space shuttle Endeavour has arrived home safely and NASA is defending its decision not to repair the gouge 2 in the shuttle's underbelly in space. The agency says the area was not exposed to overheating.

3. A teenager using his cellphone to send a text message has been seriously injured after he was hit by a train. One witness says the teen saw one train approaching but didn't see a second one headed in the opposite direction as he walked around the gate and onto the tracks.

4. Take a look at this. A thief brazenly 3 stealing a pistol from a display case at an Elvis exhibit at Presley's Graceland estate. The weapon was returned to police after it was found in a portable toilet behind the museu

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. lose one's punch:
If you say that something has punch, you mean that it has force or effectiveness.


2. breathe easy:
used when saying that someone can relax because a worrying or dangerous situation has ended

3. surf: noun
the white substance that forms on top of waves as they move towards the shore

4. text message:
短信

5. brazenly: adv
doing something openly, without showing or feeling any shame


n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
v.凿;挖出;n.半圆凿;凿孔;欺诈
  • To make a Halloween lantern,you first have to gouge out the inside of the pumpkin.要做一个万圣节灯笼,你先得挖空这个南瓜。
  • In the Middle Ages,a favourite punishment was to gouge out a prisoner's eyes.在中世纪,惩罚犯人最常用的办法是剜眼睛。
adv.厚颜无耻地;厚脸皮地肆无忌惮地
  • How dare he distort the facts so brazenly! 他怎么敢如此肆无忌惮地歪曲事实! 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • "I don't know," he answered, looking her brazenly over. “我也不知道,"他厚颜无耻地打量着她。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
学英语单词
address extension
admissions.
alkanisation
antherigona (acritochaeta) oryzae
argon filling
astronomy satellites
be on short commons
beef spreader
boaters
bolt body
bottle milk
breach of trading warranty
cardinal posterior
cixius meifengensis
codesigns
computed go-to
condensed state physics
copying layer
coupler jumper
crossing time
Digazdan
document embodying rights or claims
donja
dry shaver
dyssyntribite
engine-room auxilliaries
fast worker
femtoscopic
fleih
fret saw
fretwork saw blade wire
fuel assembly cluster
fulvia aperta
galah session
genderquake
gll. glomiformes
graded gravel
gridded data
Haruz
hyperthymestic
import employment
infundibular, infundibulate
instrument servomechanism
irrigated nursery
izenamicin
ketopregnene
line fence
lungfluke
lydiard
malfunctions
marine data manipulation
media multitasking
microdisarmament
minicluster
modfet switch
mould-vibrating block machine
neodymium complex
NSC48626
onstream
order of quality
partial assembly
phacus inflexus
photometric period
pilei
piston ring gap
plexus cborioideus ventriculi qearti
pogonophobia
potassium metaborate
pregreased
prognichthys brevipinnis
refinability
Rich man's family
riveret
RNAnucleotidyl transferase
roesel
schlepper
Seymen
siliquosa
sockmen
space communication line
Squadron Leaders
St-Fons
stage of pneumocardial compensation
standard rail
Steinem
stomach upset
subdominant harmony
surinamine
tar tape
Taubergrund
Thrombovasculitis
tinea manuum
tubular filter element
tubulo-alveolar
tuouche
turkestan volborthite (tangeite)
unransomable
vacuum-tube switch
vibrational motion
word-oriented computer
yoo hoo
zirconia ceramic