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
ADS (automatic dispatching system)
ageing star
alimentary therapeutic
amygdal
aperiodic recovery
apticular capsulitis
attrition cone
bellori
Benioff
between-group design
blew his own trumpet
cathartess
churkin
closed-cell stratocumulus
corsaire
countersalue
crystal of Reinke
cut her loose
depth contour
dimethylmaleic acid
diodes
directive rule
dispatch network
displacement gyroscope
distributed real time resource manager
disty.
dollar-euro
double tonguing
down country
Duhring's rule
explosive train
extremely finely crystalline
federalist parties
flecainides
float alarm gear
flos sophorae
genus cynodons
girlest
gradacac
grating equation
gullet-saw
hell bent
high sensitivity detector
higher-preference
HPN
Illigera pseudoparviflora
individual branch circuit
intermittent type meter
julians
Kutta-Zhoukowski airfoil
lay undue emphasis on sth
Library-College
link attached terminal
little stuff
Logogwi
measures for the prevention of fire
memory compression
methera
microphytobenthos
mohair sicilian
multipole interaction
multirange indicating instrument
n-nitrosamine
nonpseudomorphic
numerical instability
Olearias
opsonic immunity
organs of Corti
over-strict
patrolmen
Phormidium persicinum
plebe
post emulsifiable penetrant
posterior distribution
prevention and cure of snail fever
pulsilogra
put through the mill
quasi-religious
quotidian ague
replication filters
sekota (sokota)
self-made
shrub rustling
silica valve
six-phase star connection
slawnes
soporific perfume
soubrette
spearsmen
spiral over
stand by your man
stylosteophyte
taken-for-granted
The battle is not always to the strong.
to be uncertain
trawlink
unimpressionability
vertical submerged pump
weijing decoction
westerfeld
work spouse