时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(七月)


英语课

1. Ships are heading back to resume work on the leaking oil well in the Gulf 1 after the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie have breezed past. Dozens of vessels 2 evacuated 3 the areas as the storm bore down. It weakened to a tropical depression before moving over the well.


 


2. German police have raised the death toll 4 to more than a dozen in a stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans. Police say dozens more were injured. They're still trying to determine exactly what happened at Love Parade music festival.


 


3. A Canadian air force jet crashed and exploded in a ball of flames during a training run for an air show. The pilot was able to eject from the plummeting 5 plane before it hit the runway. He is treated and released from a hospital.


 


4. A week after Argentina legalized same-sex marriage, the Ministry 6 of Tourism hosted a "Winter Queer Tango Festival." The gay tango movement started five years ago, setting up to show that dance does not always have to involve a man and a woman



1 gulf
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。
2 vessels
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
4 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
5 plummeting
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的现在分词 )
  • Prices are rising, falling, going up, going down, shooting up, plummeting, etc. 物价在上涨、下跌、上升、下落、猛然上涨、骤然下跌等。 来自辞典例句
  • The enemy plane went plummeting into the sea. 敌机直直掉进海里。 来自辞典例句
6 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
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学英语单词
a.a
absorptivity wave-meter
acquirer
Amber, River
amplitude probability analysis
ampotis
background inking
Bagaroua
be upon one's dignity
bellmakers
bid tap
binary field
blue box (link trainer)
brace position
braille typewrite
butadiene-nitrile rubber
carrying tongs
Chinta Valley
coal and electricity production joint venture
collimating telescope
copunctal
cosigner
current linkage segment register
departmentalized specialty store
differential pulse-code modulation
distributed application program
electrically-driven valve
equivalent wing
F-preserve mapping
fixation of knee joint
fluorescent color
form of safety certificate
FPCL
green-eyed monsters
hematophage
Hledobo
Intefuran
is real
isocyanic acid phenyl ester
jhonny
John Harvard
kieselguhr dynamite
knock someone off his pedestal
kronkite (kr?hnkite)
large correction
lonicera kochneana rehd.
Luan Chau
Mangyshlak
measurement-recording system
metaphophate
mircorp
miscellany rate
monochoroacetone
monovalent alcohol
motor-in vibrator
musaji
mutual generation of five phases
negative-sequence current incremental component
oclv
off the latch
Ophiorrhiza paniculiformis
orange chrome
orange mushroom pimples
outside broadcast programme circuits
packet disassembly
plead for the accused
pornographic movie
Primula hypoleuca
probationatory
pseudoprecocious puberty
reflected shock operation
remote computing monitor
Remote Data Objects
rhythm sections
road-train
sandfly fever
sanguiniss
searching ship
seefeldt
select query
selector set
self-extinction of arc
send sb away with a flea in their ear
setting speed signal
Sialon ceramic
spued
squappe
steam desorption section
strazza
strong hydraulic lime
suprafluid
the telegraph
tiemco
tracing of shadows
trust inter vivos
underbills
unglowing
unquiet
Venturi jet
Vuottas
walkt
wasted costs order