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
abdelhamid
ad-hocracies
advanced composite materials (acm)
algol-type
alkaline phosphatase
angiosperm
asch-
automatic segmentation and control
aviation institute
bad economy
baitz
bank atoll
Betafo
bikini-bottom
bring into service
Buchbrunn
bulb-bowed ship
capability
capital of Iowa
cautious running
chrominance signal correction
ciliations
complex beltconveyor
conditionally compact space
conjugatenetwork
days of heating period
dazomets
dedicated to
diazs
dictyosporium subramanianii
dispersed latex
divestest
division levels
doublegelical gear
drotning
dubaya
enfleshment
esonant flip-flop
evoked
extorsions
field circuit loss
frequency variation
front part theoretical length of turnout
garden balsam
gaseous emissivity
genus Heliothis
Germanization
GM_suppose-supposing-and-what-if
graded-test
HFB
high burn up
high-current microtron
hyperphonesis
incineration at sea
inspection of fit clearance of propeller
interconnect thermometry
ionospheric reflection
key cut
komlans
landline
legal review
lifo algorithm
longicorn beetles
look-at-me request
mediterranean-type
melizitose (melicitose)
metal powder oxygen cutting
methane chloride
microslice
microwave radiation scale
mission-oriented results audit
multiangulum major
multivariate processes
Newton's law of viscosity
nonwheeled
nsfus
operation request
outer complement
overwithholds
papyrus
parting gift
personal communicator
poor little rich girl
presphenoid bone (praesphenoid bone)
racch
reaction tower
relative concentration
ridgerope
rockalls
rules of procedure
schmidt's number
Silene trachyphylla
statistical of counting
subscriber telephone
torreyinol
truncation part
unsplitpattern
upstager
vidicon camera tube
wash and disinfectant house
water-mole
wild-oatss