时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月


英语课

1. The mayor of Fargo, North Dakota says a levee breach 1 that allowed the Red River to flood an elementary school early Sunday is a "wake-up call". He said that shows a threat that the city faces for the next week. Water crept under a permanent dike 2 and flooded the school early Sunday.


2. Police say a gunman opened fire at a North Carolina nursing home Sunday, killing 3 six and wounding at least two others. The gunman was also injured before he was apprehended 4 by police after the 10 a.m. shooting. It happened at Pinelake Health and Rehab in Carthage.


3. Anti-nuclear groups held protest vigils for the 30th anniversary of America's worst nuclear power plant accident. A small amount of radiation was released into the air of Three Mile Island in 1979. No nuclear power plants have been built in the US since then.


4. Australians gathered and killed thousands of toads 5 this weekend. Officials in Queensland say the toads eat other animals and ravage 6 the landscape. They'll be turned into fertilizer.



1 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
2 dike
n.堤,沟;v.开沟排水
  • They dug a dike along walls of the school.他们沿校墙挖沟。
  • Fortunately,the flood did not break the dike.还好,这场大水没有把堤坝冲坏。
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
4 apprehended
逮捕,拘押( apprehend的过去式和过去分词 ); 理解
  • She apprehended the complicated law very quickly. 她很快理解了复杂的法律。
  • The police apprehended the criminal. 警察逮捕了罪犯。
5 toads
n.蟾蜍,癞蛤蟆( toad的名词复数 )
  • All toads blink when they swallow. 所有的癞蛤蟆吞食东西时都会眨眼皮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Toads have shorter legs and are generally more clumsy than frogs. 蟾蜍比青蛙脚短,一般说来没有青蛙灵活。 来自辞典例句
6 ravage
vt.使...荒废,破坏...;n.破坏,掠夺,荒废
  • Just in time to watch a plague ravage his village.恰好目睹了瘟疫毁灭了他的村庄。
  • For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.20年来,这个国家一直被内战外侵所蹂躏。
学英语单词
a.g.m.
adjusted figure
aglaonema commutatum elegans
Aldonar
antirust
Antony, Mark
Arafune-yama
ARMELLINI
at a simmer
bladed stance
by installment
categorifying
certificate of public convenience and necessity
Chantemesse's reaction
cheerleading news report
Cloyes-sur-le-Loir
Cmoss
Cobaltosphaerosiderite
comb-brush
committed transaction
communication subnet
comparison value
computing depreciation
coni
corbellings
cross tool carriage
curve flattening
Cyrtodactylus
digital coast line generater
directivity gain
drawn-tube
embassadors
farewell letter
finish presser
frame harps
frowstiest
glottization
grassland establishment
Hansen, Mt.
hyponatraemias
hysteresivity
idolify
in a dither
in strict accordance with
interface trapped charge
Jeppel's oil
lamb succory
lepto-
libitums
light sleeper
London tower
low-frequency gauge
lunatic fringes
man-women
management through costs
Masters of Arts
matrix transpositions
memba
microchannel inverter
MIDnet
Mocanal
mortal fear
mushroom stalagmite
Nephele
Niitsu
non-pulsatile perfusion
noodles soup with shredded chicken
normal place
numeric display
Nureyev
over-controlling
palladiurn bichloride
parking garage
pearson product-moment correlation
phosphor copper
Pleurotus phosphoreus
portable cold store
precious little
Pressler's indicating percent formula
quadraturism
quick attachable coupling
red bed facies
robberson
screen write transaction program
self-assembling
semenick
sesquiterious fascia
sex worker
sinanomycin
single-tower
sleathy
st. vitus dances
sternal orifice
synovi-
tactfully
target angular size
test tool
Tutubeia
two-way specification
unps
unsleeved
UPGMA