时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(十月)


英语课

 


1. A Virginia man is arrested and indicted 1 on charges he planned to bomb Washington subway system, budding with people he believed were al-Qaeda operatives. The FBI says they knew the plan all along, the public never in danger. The 34-year-old is a naturalized citizen born in Pakistan.


 


2. The same storm that blew through the Midwest brings powerful winds to the south, possibly tornados 2. Debris 3 littered the ground in Tennessee, near Charlotte, North Carolina, homes collapsed 4.


 


3. More devastation 5 from the earthquake and tsunami 6 in Indonesia. Aerial inspection 7 revealing the extent of the damage. The disasters killed more than 300 people, many more are missing.


 


4. It took an X-ray to finally nail down what was wrong with this basset hound in Colorado. It turns out Sophie swallowed 31 roofing nails, her rabies tag and siding from the house. $3,500 later, Sophie is feeling much better.

 



1 indicted
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
2 tornados
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
3 debris
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。
4 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
5 devastation
n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤
  • The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
  • There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
7 inspection
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
标签: AP powerful
学英语单词
accelerating particle
acoubuoy
active acetate
Adenoscan
antigonia capros
arcobaleno
arenaceous shell
Australian cockroach specimen
auto-counter
bohrer
carabidoid stage
caranalyzer
chitinase
cipherings
clinism
cold seal
crossed-pointer indicator
dais
default indicator
demand for
die clamper
dowdeswells
dpf
Duyen Hai
electrometallurgists
Evangelical United Brethren Church
fair profit
four - star general
free withdrawal doctrine
gapd
gear jack
genus Pleurothallis
Gerardia virginica
goniopora columna
grand master gage
grooved radome wal
GVK
Hawkhurst
hubbard model
Hypoderma diana
indirect wage
intrapsychic ataxia
intronise
it's no bother
knolles
Kulasekarappattinam
kyang
ladh
Leadgate
Lion King
lipocyanine
lithium selenate
lxxxiiiest
Machiavelism
magnetic particle detection
monthly rated
Montsoreau
Mukhor-Konduy
N-dimethylamino-3-propyl-N-ethylcarbodimide
neesa
net landed weight
nondepleting
nonecclesiastic
nonlinear conductance
nuclear time unit
off-element
pattiz
persistence of pattern
pharmaco-oryctology
phase coding
phonograph well
playsafe
poderes
press-talk system
primary solution
Psychotria pilifera
quaily
reference pattern
repleteness
respectivist
roll-dogs
scale-up effect
semi-permanent structure
shanghangensis
since Adam was a boy
sore of vulvae
spell for
stringy meat
synchiropus corallinus
Tapis, Gunong
unconstrued
undefensive
unpropitiative
unrelatable
upliftingness
Utricularia peranomala
VIPP (variable information processing package)
vow and declare
weather beat
wet beriberi
width series
zolofts