时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Today, we remembered the terrible earthquake in Christchurch two years ago. It killed 185 people and injured many more.


  Last year’s memorial service was held in Hagley Park, the place where so many people gathered, waiting for news after the earthquake. Listen to February 22nd 2012 to hear about this service.
  This year’s memorial service was held in Latimer Square which is a big area of grass. This is very close to the CTV building where 115 people lost their lives. Latimer Square was also the place where USAR teams set up their headquarters. Doctors and nurses also worked in Latimer Square, treating injured people.
  Today a large crowd of people gathered together in Latimer Square from midday, for a service to remember the earthquake. The Prime Minister spoke 1 about the grief that families still feel today. At 12.51pm, the time of the earthquake, there was silence for one minute while people remembered those who died that day. It was a very emotional time.
  For the first time, there was no fence around the site of the CTV building. People brought flowers to that empty site today. There were flowers in the top of road cones 2 and some people threw flowers in the Avon River to remember this sad day.
  Vocabulary
  memorial service – like a church service to remember the dead
  gathered – met together
  CTV – Canterbury Television
  USAR – Urban Search and Rescue (urban = city)
  headquarters – the centre of their work
  treat – doing something to help
  grief – great sadness
  emotional time – some people cried, others felt very sad
  site – the land
  road cones – red and white cones (like large upside-down ice-cream cones) where there are road works
  Grammar
  kill – transitive verb – needs an object e.g. X killed Y; often used in the passive e.g. Y was killed (by X)
  die – intransitive verb – no object e.g. Y died.

n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.(人眼)圆锥细胞;圆锥体( cone的名词复数 );球果;圆锥形东西;(盛冰淇淋的)锥形蛋卷筒
  • In the pines squirrels commonly chew off and drop entire cones. 松树上的松鼠通常咬掉和弄落整个球果。 来自辞典例句
  • Many children would rather eat ice cream from cones than from dishes. 许多小孩喜欢吃蛋卷冰淇淋胜过盘装冰淇淋。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
accelerator system
acute corrosive esophagitis
alloskin
ammonium phosphotungstate
archhydra
armed forces history
aulacaspis actinidiae
authorized surveyor
Barsukovskaya
bloodguiltiness
boot compartment
boratrane
bowl metall
brisk commerce
building-materials
cabin passenger's ticket
cavolina gibbosa
chain floor trolley
common ram
comptes
conditional instability rate
corporate policy
dennebol
dermosol
dial into
dialefes
Directory System Agent
dispense notes
edge ahead
elapsed time value
enclosed lamp sign
explosive-ordnance disposal
family Phaethontidae
feed on animal's blood
fire size class map
fornix conjunctivae superior
freshlings
gilhool
graphical solution
hunt-and-peck
ill-defined
inactive front
infect tube
instrument line break accident
internal reference electrode
Ismotic
isolating cock
logic behaviour
LPG platforming
manabozho
maritime trade
masnulonucleus
membrane compressor
membron
midget socket
mini-dvd
Mogenson screen
momentum screw
monilated
musths
no reporting knowing crimes
non-performings
Open Source Initiative
out of the dark
own court
PEC (printed electronic circuit)
perlita
permanent base
pin rib
pinnatin
polysemant
postcard paper
programming language research
promontoires
public discussion format
quartz spectral photometer
quick disconnection
rice leaf roller
rocard
Rostrospirifer
self-taughts
seminarize
sex-chromatin body
sexually mature
sfw
souray
Spergularia rubra
steel-tape sheath
sublayering
suction hose
tail production
take a wife
tax on price of land
tractus corticobulbaris
trailing spark plug
uninformedness
unit element of ring
vertical digester
vertical edge l head half round scraper
Wampumpeag
warm nersery paper
woolsorter's pneumonia