时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(二)月


英语课

1. It's the chaos 1 after the storm. Rescue crews across the South are picking through the debris 2 left by a cluster of tornados 3. At least 50 people have been reported dead and neighborhoods leveled in five states.


2. John McCain is calling for all Conservatives to join his bandwagon. The maverick 4 Republican has been facing some harsh rhetoric 5 from the far-right. But following his wins on Super Tuesday, he says it's time for everyone in the GOP to unite.


3. The space shuttle Atlantis is ready for its big trip. It's supposed to take off tomorrow and carry a new science lab to the International Space Station. Thunderstorms, though, could keep it on the ground.


4. The Year of the Rat is starting up with a bang. The Chinese New Year begins today. In Beijing, that calls for a night of fireworks, dancing and partying.


 



n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
  • They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网
adj.特立独行的;不遵守传统的;n.持异议者,自行其是者
  • He's a maverick.He has his own way of thinking about things.他是个特异独行的人。对事情有自己的看法。
  • You're a maverick and you'll try anything.你是个爱自行其是的人,样样事情都要尝试一下。
n.修辞学,浮夸之言语
  • Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗?
  • Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后,他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
学英语单词
acquisition budget
alternating geyser
anholocyclic
baby milk
barkier
beefwoods
binary backward counter
bottom dollar
bunker oil tank
card catalogue
Centaurium Hill
Chinghai
cigar filler
clearing obstacles
clinical investigation
close the defective parts
cloud searchlight
concrete reinforcement
confrontation states
constant heat flux
crowd shovel
cycas circinaliss
deferences
delayed-channel amplifier
drop bottle
dry-farm
electric blower
electric two-speed drill
fanship
filter rate
fixed-handle breaker
flat spot
freight base station
German typewriter
give sb a fair show
headmates
heat-supply
hedire
index of program performance
iodine-131s
juxtapositionally
krulak
lapis amiridis
large induction motor
lebanese pound
manganocummingtonite
massaging machine
nanoencapsulation
nine-month-old
nisse
Nǔngnado
off one's form
open thermodynamic system
opt-
outclassed
outloading conveyor
over current overdraught
oxyphenisatin acetate
partes posterior
passacantando
patellapexy
peercasting
photohadronic
pin for fixing tie rod
post-pubescent
pozzuolana
prevailing
programme control gear
project level
pyrimidine nucleosidase
quatation
re-attempt
reeks of
remarketing
remultiplication
responder-beacon
Schonbein's operation
sensations
sharlee
spatial correlation
speech understanding program
subcutaneous saw
suffocatingly
sulfamate
supplemental data
surface renewer theory
synformal anticline
termination of traffic separation scheme
thermal aerosol generator
thermobank defrost
Tiszanagyfalu
topographical divide
triglycolamic acid
tripping of unit and remote tripping of unit
undecylate
VEGF165
waddons
water reservoir
water-hammer arrestor
web longitudinal stringer
Zam-buk