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
A.T.S.
Absolute Return
acylamino acid
adherescent
aircraft instruments department
anncamptic
approval ratings
atmospheric optical thickness
auriculatin
baby-bound
braided acetylene hose
brevity
character table
chondrosamine
chroodactylon ornatum
cooperating installation
crenilabrus
damage field
deinonychus
detrimental defect
document sorter
drag ring
earthy manganese
Easter term
economics of welfare
Embelia henryi
ex-child
family Anguidae
fertilizer sowing attachment
final carry digit
Finntorp
fire action
fixed pitch propeller(fpp)
follow one's nose
formal instruction
functioning machinery
furnace body
gas-tight damper
genus Cocos
giesswein
giraffas
hare off
Helmholz resonator
hydato
in safe keeping
inemanability
injector orifice
interchondral articulations of ribs
inthe
keyboard-interpretation function
kirchoff transformation
Koijärvi
large wheel
layout of warehouse
legal proceedings
m-dependent random variables
M25
made harbour
maply
microcomputer testing
mold stripping
morticians
mycobacterial ulcer
nerve block
nickel cathode
onychophora
opensides
ordinates
oxygen gasification
Pago Pago, Pagopago
pass for press
per capita gnp
power cut-off relay
proselytised
proximal sequence element,PSE
psychodiaguastics
pultar
rababoo
rack-jack
ratyl
republishers
resilient shaft coupling
resistance to water vapo(u)r permeability
scol
sovetskoye(mordovskaya bokla)
speed maneuver
split palatal strap
sposing
spreads
strigosus
submillimeter-wave astronomy
sulphaphenazole
temporary extinguished
top-stitched seam
tottering
tranel
uncircumscript
unicomp
wait ... for
Weismain
went out of fashion
wheat straw patchwork