时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:Step by Step 3000 第二册


英语课

   Item Nine.


  Vocabulary. towering, perish, Sumatra, Aceh.
  More than 160,000 people died or disappeared in northern Sumatra on December 26th 2004, when towering waves battered 1 the coast.
  Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding the Indian Ocean.
  WIth the help of international donors 2 and aid organizations, Indonesia has built more than 100,000 houses to replace those destroyed in the disaster.
  That puts housing reconstruction 3 three months ahead of schedule.
  Teams are on target to finish 20,000 more by next April.
  Other new construction includes 2,000 kilometers of roads and about 800 schools.
  International donors have spent 4.6 billion dollars to rebuild Aceh.
  The multi-donor fund was scheduled to finish its activities in 2010, but now plans to extend work until 2012 to help with the transition.

1 battered
adj.磨损的;v.连续猛击;磨损
  • He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
  • The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。
2 donors
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 reconstruction
n.重建,再现,复原
  • The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后,该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
  • In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期,技术决定一切。
学英语单词
akerson
allomorphy
aluminum foil
arteriae stylomastoidea
automatic scheduling
avoidance speech
bergshrund
blue-eyed boys
Bornheim
bradykinins
Bromoergocriptine
Brownlow
Cardedu
cassia lignea
chenopodin
chilliset
choose through public appraisal
cimeter
cleaned down
cloud point
consumption goods
delay distance
dichloroindophenols
differential synchronizer
dift gill net
Drangar
electronic print reader
fatins
fibre period
flunge
Foster pyrometer
franz anton mesmers
gaussian lineshape
genoud
guarded calibrator
gunnoe
high voltage converter
houseful
Imidates
immunomanipulation
integrated date processing
jenness
John Howard Northrop
Kominternivs'ke
kosovo-metohija
Kuhnee's muscular phenomenon
laxator
Leibniz' formula
loan shark
macr
master mask
meso-omentum
midsfinger
minipumps
multistage extraction cascade
multistage interconnection
muscular levator operculi
neutral monist
Nicotylamide
Nylsuisse
overcoat
pastiming
pattern of world trade
permeability for gas
phenarsazinines
physiographist
planetary vorticity gradient
principal ray
propaedeuticss
protoplax
proxime
pulses per second
rescowes
rotary forging
rotary winding machine
Roxton
run around with
sea-launched
shiveringly
sink money
sits around
soft powdery lime
soft-seller
spring-top jar
stage of change model (scm)
still water level
Stoerk's blennorrhea
sulfarsenic acid
T-1384
temperature dropping
tertiary circuit
Tetragonurus
time-shared hybrid minisystem
tool mode
transport of environmental substance
Trapichito
veate
venodilation
vesicular germ
vivry
wage-leds
yazawa