时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   A man, who was swimming today at Murawai beach near Auckland, was attacked by a shark and died in the water. The man lived at Murawai. He was married with a young family.


  One fisherman, who was on rocks nearby, said he saw two sharks. Another fisherman thought there were 3 or 4 sharks. One shark expert said that it was possibly a Bronze Whaler shark because the Great White is usually alone. However, the police said it was a Great White. It was 4m long.
  A police officer shot at the shark from a helicopter. Another officer shot from a rescue boat but the shark swam away. Beaches in that area are closed for the next 2 days. Surf Life Saving 1 volunteers and police recovered the body of the man.
  Shark attacks are very rare in New Zealand. Since records began in 1830s, 14 people have been killed by sharks in New Zealand. The last fatal 2 attack was in 1976.
  Vocabulary
  ?Surf Life Saving – people who rescue swimmers in the sea (Listen to January 8th 2013 to hear more about Surf Life Saving.)
  ?volunteer – not paid
  ?recovered – managed to find the body
  ?rare – not usual, almost never
  ?records – data e.g. in newspapers
  ?fatal – someone died

n.节省,节约;[pl.]储蓄金,存款
  • Energy saving is term strategic policy of our country.节约能源是我国长期的战略国策。
  • Old-fashioned housewives were usually very saving.旧时的家庭主妇通常都很节俭。
adj.致命的,灾难性的;重大的,决定性的
  • The enemy got a fatal blow in the battle.敌人在战斗中受到致命的打击。
  • I made the fatal mistake of letting her talk.我让她讲话是犯了严重的错误。
学英语单词
address bus driver
agitating form
agricultural output value
Antsiafabositra
breadier
capitals of liberia
caprio
ceruminous deafness
chionite
coarse setting
Cupressus chengiana
darling rivers
DC of S
deep foundation method
deterministic grammar
Dhurnāl
DTPA
dump steam
effective exposure
enzymatic synthetic
equitable defenses
evaporant ion source
fixed quantity weight
flow limit (yield point)
for one's own sake
geminated tooth
Gretz rectifier
hardin-simmons
hatefest
Helcionellacea
impulse shopping
include file
indie-dances
inductive drop
initial excitation system response
inner-tube core lifter
iris repositor
judgement means
jug up
konosirus punctatus
Lavoisierian
lightning arrester
lii
littlewit
Long Cay
luminous vapor trail
magnolia dawsoniana rehd. & wils.
maintien
many-group calculation
maradonas
microwave meteorology
multilevel algorithm
neutral tone
no load power consumed by transformer
non-contradictions
non-exchanger
non-violences
nonpresentational
orbital attitude and maneuver system
os1
paijanne l.
paper-type
parameter stack
pastry doughs
photographic tape
plugging uterine
polygama
post-emergence application
prestressed pile
redwood national parks
role transition
sadegh
sampling circuit
scale stone
scandalizations
schedule performance evaluation and review technique
self-communication
sentence position
slipped epiphysis
spore spectra
statutory protection
stelite
stem mother
stepping it up
strain tester
string trimmers
submarine's trimmed surfacing
subsemigroup
super hard alloy
superiority
synthetic rubber tank
tankias
trade debtor account receivable
transaction register
Trévoux
Turin, Shroud of
Tëtkino
unpianistic
varnishment
viscuous
wall impedance