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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abstract poem
airletter
approach arc of contact
AR-DF26
assembling production
auto-radar plot
automatic damper
bailfully
baltoro gl.
barium chloride
birthday boy
boswellia bhawdajiana birdw.
brain hormones
bridge casing
bulkhead girder
burnt-sugar
Canapiare, Cerro
cane roller
caper-cousin
cellulitis of parapharyngeal space
chemotic
coin-box
Comstock's mealybug
conjugate
cressman
dasyprocta agutis
data-management
dependent symbols
diatomic excimer
discontinuously distributed suction
disspirit
distress flag
driving horse
equi-magnetic potential surface
facial bristles
falciformis
file drum
fine-grained material
finessable
first-waver
free-draining
front axle truing gage
gossiply
graphocatharsis
graveline
grease hole plug
gulleting machine
have the gift of gab
Indian rhododendron
intrapentoneal injection
jiggliness
knock sb's block off
know-what
linnarz
Louhans
lunan
macerating
Makuza
meat extract bouillon
minimum honing diameter
muslin weave
nonoption
nonrecipient
occult virus
oficina
Okarito brown kiwi
on-the-fly printing
ordinary written law
out slot signaling
pampero seco
Paschim Bārigaon
peace-process
perforation of gallbladder
Phalacrocorax
plan of redemption
point efficiency
prickly poppy
radio telemetry system
requere
rhus sylvestris sieb.et zucc.
Rivesaltes
sean penn
seed-savers
simple objective
sorcerors
split the layout line
star valve disc
stringiness
superior temporal fenestra
surface acoustic wave device
syncroshear
Taygeta
tidal scheme
undermilled rice
unicasts
upboost
us colonialism
Valenciennes lace
volplanist
westmost
work-girl
zirconia clinker