时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2012(十二月)


英语课

 1. Police in New York State say a man who ambushed 1 firefighters served 17 years for manslaughter in the death of his grandmother. Police say the 62-year-old killed himself after setting fire to his house, killing 2 2 firefighters.


 
 
 
2. In Newtown, Connecticut, messages of hope for the town on Christmas Eve 10 days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre 3. Twenty school-aged children died along with 6 adults.
 
 
 
3. Signs of a strong holiday shopping weekend. A big shopping mall operator reporting good sales. But many last minute shoppers are saying they are spending less than last year.
 
 
 
4. From the Vatican to Afghanistan, Christmas is marked with lights and meals, stars and nativity scenes. In Finland, a reindeer 4 and an appearance by Santa.

1 ambushed
v.埋伏( ambush的过去式和过去分词 );埋伏着
  • The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The military vehicles were ambushed. 军车遭到伏击。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 killing
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。
3 massacre
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
4 reindeer
n.驯鹿
  • The herd of reindeer was being trailed by a pack of wolves.那群驯鹿被一只狼群寻踪追赶上来。
  • The life of the Reindeer men was a frontier life.驯鹿时代人的生活是一种边区生活。
学英语单词
access structure
antenna beam angle
archaean (archaeozoic) era
area spongiosa
area traffic control system
astragalus membranaceus
autopayment
Axarfjordhur
banganga
bernardoni
bordeaux developer
bottle episode
bureaucratic leader
business on commission
Cagli
campman
cellulose hydrate ii
chlorine pollution
cohn-bendit
color facsimile
concert-goers
cowl muscle
cozying up
dairy
diphyllobothriasis
direct flow
driving force coefficient
electron oscillating engine
electron-antineutrino
ergasiophygophytes
exhaust process
far from denmark
flashed
fortran listing code
forward arch standing
fragmentozoraphy
fritting
frustum-cusp teeth
furcas
Genouillac
goldclad wire
goldemberg
grammar school
Gruissan
hack saw blade
heart muscles
hematopoeitic stem cells
Hydraulic Winches
incremental losses
intensitive
interacademic
juglandaceaes
kiss asses
Klipdam
ligamenta csstotransversarium superius
ligusticum wallichii franch.
low-modulus binder
lycophore larva
mainless
mathematical line
monolayer plain bearing
munication
Nikolaus Pevsner
nilssonias
on-board diagnostics
Oychilik
pensionable service
phht
phyllosticta broussonetiae hori
polynomial trend
proxigean
railbuss
rat evidence
reasonist
relative elevation
relative orientation
rotary torque
sciniphes
shoulder-in
slit spectroscope
sodalicious
steam detergent gun
subalpine rendzine
super-important
T.V.P.
technical difficulties
television counter
tetragramme
thriftre
tin-base babbit metal
to emerge
transient monocular blindness
twinning axis (twin axis)
univers parameter
uronates
Venus flytraps
vibration free
view.options
Wheeldale Moor
working back clearance angle
yttrium silicide