时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. Ice and snow are making for treacherous 1 travel this holiday weekend. Power is out to thousands of homes in the Midwest. At least five people have died from pileups in several states.


2. In an early morning tragedy, fire destroyed a Baptist church in Jacksonville, Florida. No one was injured.The flames lit up the sky. The sanctuary 2 burned to the ground, but the gymnasium was spared. Church officials say that is where they will hold Christmas services. An investigation 3 is underway.


3. Roger Clemens is again denying he ever used steroids or injected anything into his body. The all-star pitcher 4 posted a video on his website and Youtube. His name was prominent in the Mitchell Report that detailed 5 baseball players' steroid use. Clemens says he plans to answer questions about allegations in the future.


4. Santa Claus is getting an early start to Christmas. He is greeting boys and girls at his home in Finland. The North Pole is too busy for guests at this time of year. Tomorrow night, Saint Nicolas will be off on his sleigh, delivering toys to children worldwide.



1 treacherous
adj.不可靠的,有暗藏的危险的;adj.背叛的,背信弃义的
  • The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers.路面的积水对驾车者构成危险。
  • The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.在冻雪上行走有潜在危险。
2 sanctuary
n.圣所,圣堂,寺庙;禁猎区,保护区
  • There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
  • Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。
3 investigation
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。
4 pitcher
n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
5 detailed
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
学英语单词
acrosomal cap
Alleynians
annual value product
auxiliary power unit (apu)
Batama
belted galloway
benzoylene
Bergatreute
bring on
burner zone wall heat release rate
buzhaye
charles louis napoleon bonapartes
chilled drinking water
Clark, Adam
compensation and damages
continuation bet
cyclanes
dan nguyet
demand growth
dihydrosanguinarine
Distichodontinae
economical facing point lock
effects buses
electrically melted
encoring a
error performance index
estimating of molecular weight
etopside
fangled
fetch one's breath
flatness of field
fuel pellet stack
Geranium sinense
glouttonnous
glyhexylamid
grab hook
Grant Park
habitfroming drug
hard top
Hertzel's sign
high-heel
imposition of death penalty
incestually
interchange agreement
intermediate group selector
iron-ring support
irrigation basin
jaghire
Lellinge
ligamenta tarsi dorsalia
limit of inflammability
line steel
Litvinov
lumped reactor
Lyapunovo
measure of approximation
millenium
motor hunting
neoscona scylloides
nephrotresis
non - compete clause
O-Demethylbuchenavianine
outer chiasma
ovipositing
Pareto efficiency
payload efficiency
picralluminite (picroallumogene)
pilous
prepruning
radix echinopsis larifolii
rauvoxine
resilient trip
return route concealment
rhamniose
road-repair
secretion vitrinite
sheet metal drawing
silt particle
source bubble
space launching market
special talent
steam-blown fiber
sync section
Tanakaea
territorial sea strait
Tetradium daniellii
thebanine
three fourth running down clause
thyrsoidea
time study people
TM radar
took kindly to
trouble oneself
tuballoy
under-hold
van der waal's equation
vitreous texture
voltmeter multi-cellular electrostatic
weleryt (whlerite)
well-concorded
wrap-party
Zaysan