时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:国外媒体新闻


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总结奥巴马在峰会期间的表现,美国媒体热衷于用"握手外交"、"魅力攻势"等字眼形容。奥巴马本人也对峰会成果感到满意,称从古巴、委内瑞拉等美国在拉美的传统对手处看到"积极信号"。


After days of handshakes with unlikely leaders, President Obama is ending his four-day trip to Latin-America today. He's attempted to warm up relationships between the US, Cuba and Venezuela and he is set to give closing remarks in Trinidad and Tobago just before noon Eastern.


Have you seen this story out of Erie, Pennsylvania? It is sparking a whole lot of outrage 1 and basically this is the premise 2. An off-duty police officer is caught on camera at a bar, mocking a man he watched die.


Yeah, now we are gonna show you a piece of this now we are gonna show you more of it later, but I wanna warn you, pretty graphic 3 stuff here, some graphic language are also just serving the hideous 4 thing talked about. Again, this is the police officer in the bar joking as he discussed this murder investigation 5.


Ok, he’s talking about the mother of that murdered victim there and her reaction on the scene, he goes on. This is like an eight-minute clip here, but er, the video is provoking a lot of outrage and protests as well.


Look at some of these videos here. This is from Oklahoma lines of storms with strong winds hit Oklahoma overnight. This is in the northeastern port of the State, the National Weather Service confirming that a tornado 6 did in fact touched down in Linston, Oklahoma .That’s not too far outside of Oklahoma City. Four homes we know of leveled; also a horse trailer was turned upside down. No reports of injuries from this tornado, but you can see the damage that it did right behind.


We have a heartbreaking story out of Texas to tell you about. Five children are dead after the car they were in veered 7 off the road and it was swept into a flooded creek 8. The children were ages one, three, four, six and seven. Now the driver and another person did escape and police say that driver lost control when he tried to answer a cellphone, but they say alcohol and the weather may have also played a role.


Before the September 11th attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest terror attack on the American soil. That was 14 years ago today. That Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bombed the borough 9 federal building, killing 10 168 people. Hundreds of others were injured. A live picture we wanna show you now from Oklahoma City where the residents there, government officials and also many, many others will be taking part in ceremonies marking the 14th anniversary of that attack.



n.暴行,侮辱,愤怒;vt.凌辱,激怒
  • When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
  • We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
n.前提;v.提论,预述
  • Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.让我引述一些史实作为我立论的前提。
  • We can deduce a conclusion from the premise.我们可以从这个前提推出结论。
adj.生动的,形象的,绘画的,文字的,图表的
  • The book gave a graphic description of the war.这本书生动地描述了战争的情况。
  • Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.用图标来区分重要的文本项。
adj.丑陋的,可憎的,可怕的,恐怖的
  • The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.整个经历就像一场可怕的噩梦。
  • They're not like dogs,they're hideous brutes.它们不像狗,是丑陋的畜牲。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
v.(尤指交通工具)改变方向或路线( veer的过去式和过去分词 );(指谈话内容、人的行为或观点)突然改变;(指风) (在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向)逐渐转向;风向顺时针转
  • The bus veered onto the wrong side of the road. 公共汽车突然驶入了逆行道。
  • The truck veered off the road and crashed into a tree. 卡车突然驶离公路撞上了一棵树。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
n.享有自治权的市镇;(英)自治市镇
  • He was slated for borough president.他被提名做自治区主席。
  • That's what happened to Harry Barritt of London's Bromley borough.住在伦敦的布罗姆利自治市的哈里.巴里特就经历了此事。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
学英语单词
acrylic resin adhesive
activation pointer
arched collecting tubule
ballata
before you can say Jack Robinson
brocchi
Bullenbaai
Carnot's solution
cartway
chipcore
claim the protection of the law
clarified brine storage tank
closed confinement
co-omnipotent
consignment-out
cottise
craneages
cylinder scavenging system
deferred rate
Difuradin
diphenylmethanols
disappointed with
domain name tasting
drill pointing machine
epoxybromobenzene
F-F (form feed)
ferrodistortions
frequency domain signal
gamonts
gift pack
grassmann's law
Grey Cardinal
groundages
hammer something into someone's head
hear tell
Hopkinson coefficient
howsons
ideal gases
igun
iidaka metal
image information processing system
immunity to
impurity-band conduction
karabin
kenbridge
Lambertian surface source
Levasseur's sign
light area
mechanical seal with inside mounted spring
miniature rifle
mixed bacteria
motionlessness
must-carry
Neutrogena
Olbelam
optical directional coupler
peat bed(bag)
phosphorescent light
polyhedrosis virus
Ponte Gardena
positive temperature coefficient
power-actuated safety valve
pre-records
precaution code
quadrantopia
ranunculus albertii regel et schmalh
regularises
Risnjak
rites de passage
Rivne
rotary sampler
sand-gravel ratio
Sappey's subareolar plexus
scaling back
semicrouches
shilly shallied
side forklift
siliceous o?lite
solid rate
spiky texture
story editor
stratigraphy geology
striggio
sulfamethoxazol
superharmonic function
surface-flatness checker
tabernacle
telluryl
templegoing
the tabernacle
thermal capacity value
thermal transmission coefficient
to whitewash
trambooze
troaks
two-shaft turbine
unguentum acidi salicylici
vasomotor tumentia
Vigevano
well-distributed points
woodworkings
zinebs