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
'best
accidental activation
aeoluss
aerogun-sights
alcogas
alimentary hypertriglyceridemia
antiofficial
antipsychotic drug
arbitrageuse
automadesign
automatic radiometeorograph
bag in
bend of Varolius
bend piece
boskins
burs? mm. lumbricalium pedis
cloxyfonac
combat plane
core commodity
crean
Cremonac
dairy temperament
dark red silver
definite intent
digital type torquemeter
disturbance error function
El Negrito
element cycle
expansion reducer
eye memory
family Fistulinaceae
faulted condition
felonious taking
Flores, Cachoeira das
foot screw
free space anchor point
fuel economy label
Gammaridae
Garnet Star
gartering
gegs
GeoRSS
gios
gley's cell
grandmums
Hamasaka
have it on
high-explosive antitank (heat)
Holmsley
hortenses
hot application type rust preventive
hyperspace drives
hypnum densirameum
inconsumptible
interfacial shape
jawbone economics
jump field
Karacakιlavuz
kedjeree
library module
lipophilic interaction
lose the battle but win the war
lpez
Mars black
melosis
nano-decomposition
neutron chain reaction
nicotianoside
nonantigenic
normal slip
Nouzonville
original silkworm egg
ovipositor
palmster
pasteurisations
Plexus rectali inferior
Poa sinattenuata
port tower
private warehouse
put-on
putrescible
quadraphonic
quadrature-axis sub-transient short-circuit time constant
radiochemically
sand shadow
slasher beam
stand on one's legs
sub potestate
sublimation
sugarbush
synchronization loss
taxable supply
temporary reduction
thermal transport formula
undermeasurement
vituperations
water-jet exhauster
whiteishness
wood assortment
writh's
zootoxins