时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   A strong earthquake hit the Solomon Islands on Wednesday. It was 8.0 on the Richter scale 1 and was followed 40 minutes later by a 7.0 earthquake. This was only 10km deep. There was a small tsunami 2 – about 1.5 metres high – which killed some elderly 3 people and a small child.


  New Zealand officials gave a tsunami warning 4 to parts of New Zealand, especially the west coast. They expected a tsunami could reach New Zealand in 5 to 6 hours but that did not happen.
  There have been many after-shocks in Solomon Islands since the first earthquake. This morning’s after-shock was 6.6 and caused a lot more damage. There are more than 200 islands in the Solomons and communication is difficult. There is probably damage to telephones. Boat travel is dangerous if there is a risk of tsunami. Also the airport at the capital Honiara was closed by flooding.
  John Key has offered money and help. The islands are in the Pacific Ocean, north-west of New Zealand and east of Papua New Guinea. About 550,000 people live on these islands.
  Vocabulary
  ?Richter scale – one way of measuring the strength of an earthquake; 8.0 is very strong
  ?tsunami – very high waves caused by an earthquake
  ?reach – get to
  ?communication – contact between people by talking, mail, email, etc
  ?risk – danger

n.比例;程度;范围
  • The scale of this map is an inch to a mile.这张地图的比例尺是一英寸代表一英里。
  • He's in business on a small scale.他做的是小本生意。
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。
adj.年老的;年龄相当大的
  • He is getting elderly.他逐渐变老了。
  • The elderly man is quite energetic.这位上了年纪的老人仍精力充沛。
n.警告,告诫,训诫,警戒,警报
  • The other side paid no attention to our warning.对方不重视我方的警告。
  • He realized that his doctor was warning him off drink.他意识到医生在告诫他戒酒。
学英语单词
6-Hydroxytropinone
64-bit memory chips
a queen bee
ackerson
adrenal hypoplasia
Aeschynanthus radicans
aphthaus stomatitis
avoidable cause
backup and recovery
baregine
bitemary
Brewster magnifier
Briggsia dongxingensis
bundle of fun
cementing unit
chlorisondamine
chrome chromchre
compone
computation and adjustment of traverse
computer courseware
crowtrees
CZCS
dental floss holder
diamino dicarboxylic acid
diapiric fold
digital tracking system
dosze-peres
double solvent extraction
Drumfree
ego-consciousness
esselens
ethician
family lasiocampidaes
fuel-flow totalizer
genus Percina
hana odori (japan)
heat(ing) effect
Herfelingen
Huasco, Salar del
hyperbolic region
insurer's interest
kidney malpighian corpuscle
lateral supraclavicular nerves
law of association
lifter drawing bar
low-voltage distribution equipment
lower cannons
manipulating
meanies
meathook
Mereprine
Merkels tactile disk
minimum stress-intensity factor
N-acetylhexosaminidase
negative justfication
neutralizing hydrolysis
noncondensable
octavalvifer
Ophioglossum
optical glass fiber
overdocuments
parmarion martensi
passing loop
pathogen-related(PR)protein
pendulous fibroma
perforation of Meckel's diverticulum
phase matched for parametric processes
planning procedure
positive convergence
positive displacement screw type compressor
principal conjunctive normal form
pupilmaster
range tone
ratherest
reflection loss
rigidity factor
scotch carpet
scotias
sculling propulsion
seismic energy
self-stip
shuken
sine-curve shaped structure
SPVD
structural hazard
studio art
sulfinol process
sulfocarbimide
telemeter processor
transfer RNA gene
trencher
Trisetacus
type of documentation
una voce
unboasting
under detention
under its own steam
unpumpable
Ust'-Kulomskiy Rayon
voice frequency carrier telegraph
wizard sleeve
Zuitzer