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
-uretic
a bad workman always blames his tools
a barrel of fun
activation-pulse generator
administrative jurisdiction
aerodynamically balanced control surface
al-nahayan
Almunge
Alwen Reservoir
amyl acetate-iso
barrier-bar trap
basimaxilla
beta-iterferon-lb
betuloside
blew your own trumpet
borough fund
bull nose
chondrocyte
colet
conductivity connected charge-coupled device
contracting chill
coupon payment
crossprime
Darwin ellipsoid
Deniges butter
disc crusher
do number one
elastic lateral bukling
elastomeric network
enclosed door bell
engineering geological map
entrapments
ethical norm
family Pinaceae
famous last words
freight consignment
friction plane
Frohn's tests
gaged arch
glass blowing out
ground clearance measurement
Gyrocheilos retrotrichus
heroica
hexabranchids
hexamethyl-disilazane
hvps (high-voltage power supply)
in eruption
katholikos
keratoid cusp
lagoon deposit
low speed air explosive bomb
main coolant system
management and operation
management bank
marine eel
material expenses
medial saddle
melanemesis
Milne
Opium-habit
orthopantograph
overleap
pain waxing
pass in one's dinner pail
pastuta
permanent-magnet machine
physiology of circulation
pretopology
primary air rate
program development time
protofluorine
Qostanay Oblysy
quasi-superordinates
Quercus robur
radar signal simulator
researchists
rested on
satellite landing control system
seed polisher
slip crack
snpersoft
spoon back chair
stage coach
stone splash-dam
subject to correction
torque identity
trailing transient
two-digit group
unridden
vertex of conic
vertical bar oscillator
Vila Pouca de Aguiar
virtual cylindrical gear pair
volume coefficient
Washington Park
wattless component of the current
Wellesley, Arthur
work as
wropper
yarke, yarkee
young mammals
Zorneding