时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(四)月


英语课

1.Pirates reportedly threatened to kill their American hostage if the US attacked them. That's according to a Somali who's been in contact with the pirates. Captain Richard Phillips earlier tried to swim to freedom but was recaptured.


2.Fans and teammates are remembering Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher 1 Nick Adenhart. Adenhart and two others were killed early yesterday when a suspected drunken driver apparently 2 ran a red light and smashed into their car.


3.Several parts of the country are dealing 3 with severe weather. Witnesses say a tornado 4 touched down in central Tennessee earlier today. Meantime, crews are searching for victims after a deadly twister hit Mena, Arkansas.


4.And in Rome, Italians are flocking to a chocolate store to get their fix of sweet Easter candy. That's because it's one of the few chocolate makers 5 that still does everything by hand, using traditional chocolate-making methods.



n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acid-resistant concrete
adrenal glands
affected set
alert control
Anglo Indian
anterior pharyngotomy
antileukemia
Archidona
averaged light measuring
battered woman
bobbin draft
breeding for double low content in rapeseed
bridging course
bunch density
cable current transformer
Callands
carbon ribbon apply indicator
Chāh-e Shūr
clouser
co-opere
compound transposition
crepan
dietreyne
divided steam-flow design
double circuit power supply
driver sweep
Eden Project
expiatory
fiesta flowers
find what's what o'clock it is
foreign trade surplus
forlano
fringe trees
gerbier
hair of the dog
haut-fond
heat transform
heylerosaurids
Horsa
househunting
human terrains
hurry to
If, Château d'
infant marketing
isochronous oscillations
Koser's citrate medium
Lancereaux-Mathieu disease
land filtration
make a move on
medical evaluation
metachloridine
milk protein
Moritz tests
Not worth a tinker's dam
number agreement
oil paint
open-wire carrier telephone channel
oscillator doubler
outdoor insulator
packet type indication
panoramic view
phrenoglottic
plain transit
poplitaeal
primary-colour filter
programmed pressure gas chromatography
propagandists
pyoflavin
queu(e)ing analysis
raised character
recoins
reference stream
relative knowledge
retractable dome
rose-engine
Rosecta-wood
Royal Insurance Company Limited
sap lath
scoring equipment
secondary radial
sensory receptors
shoals
sparking-plug
spiral parity checking transmission codes
standard deviation ellipse
Stoke St Gregory
stowse
São José dos Pinhais
tannages
THYRIDIAE
thyristor switchable capacitor
tiring out
to jeopardize
tramp boat
treble hook
two-way trunk line
unpremeditated
uveoparotid tuberculosis
wall-mounted switchboard
wood-tar creosote
xinmaitong tablets