时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. NASA says it will review psychological training after astronaut Lisa Nowak's arrest. She's accused of trying to kill another woman in a romantic dispute. She was charged with attempted murder in Florida. On Wednesday, Nowak returned to Texas from Florida and received a medical assessment 1 at the Johnson Space Center.


2. A US military helicopter has gone down northwest of Baghdad with Sunni insurgents 2 tied to Al-Qaeda claiming responsibility. All seven aboard the Marine 3 Sea Knight 4 Chopper were killed.


3. Another letter bomb in Great Britain. This time at a vehicle licensing 5 agency injuring three. It's the third bomb to injure workers in three days, all at offices tied to traffic regulations.


4. A massive fire destroys warehouses 6 in Knoxville, Tennessee and injures three firefighters. The blaze sent flames and smoke spiraling into the sky over downtown Knoxville, raining down embers.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. spiral: verb
If something spirals or is spiraled somewhere, it grows or moves in a spiral curve.


2. ember: n-count
The ember of a fire are small pieces of wood or coal that remain and glow with heat after the fire has finished burning.



n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
n.骑士,武士;爵士
  • He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
  • A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。
v.批准,许可,颁发执照( license的现在分词 )
  • A large part of state regulation consists of occupational licensing. 大部分州的管理涉及行业的特许批准。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
  • That licensing procedures for projects would move faster. 这样的工程批准程序一定会加快。 来自辞典例句
仓库,货栈( warehouse的名词复数 )
  • The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
  • Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。
学英语单词
acetone-bromoform
adhesives
adipose body of ischioanal fossa
adorodores
Align tool
arrester switch
artificial climate chamber
attenuation correction formula
auctentyke
axiomatic geometry
b sharp
back-lash play
Baltoji
be flagged
beartrap
bescribbled
bestriding
Bhadreswar
boundary reflectance
buccofacial
bungie
canada council (cc)
cell swept volume
centralized control room
conducting ring
Copromonas subtilis
corporate incest
curtseys
data transmission systems
daywear
deener
dimethylacrylic aldehyde
earthquake area
echo-chamber
electronic digital tracking and ranging unit
elev
elite stand
emulsio olei jecoris plscis
equivalence of group actions
Ettinghausen coefficient
flexible shaft grinder
GM_along-or-alongside
HermannC-Maugiun Symbol
Holroyd
hudland
index number of the price of consumer goods
isofluorphate
lathyrism
lay witnesses
leotardss
Lower's rings
machine final terminal stopping device
makeup gas
Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect
metrothosis
Mitsue
model year variation
multi-volume multi-file
muscle relaxant
natebies
naval special warfare unit
nickelous acetate
nontransformational
ocean observation technology
on the bias
paraprotaspis
phosphinic acid ester
pistol shrimp
presecretin
Prunus
quasi-idempotency
Quince Mil
Raman liquid laser
reaerations
red onion
retinoides
rhacomitrium delavayi broth
saracenis
satirizable
sea-train
semi-groups
sextant adjustment
shellac resin
single line fault
Soil Conservation and Allotment Act
spasmophemia
stock merger
tanker beam
task status iudex
the majority
topsoils
total immersion
tremulation
Tuchkovo
Ukrainianised
vindicativeness
water-hammer arrestor
What's your take on that?
wolniak
written form of order
Yondok
zero-surface