时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(一月)


英语课

In Haiti, a powerful aftershock sent Haitians into the streets , cracking roads and adding to the nation’s trauma 1.

The magnitude-5.9 jolt 2 matched the strongest of the aftershocks that came after the huge quake that devastated 3 the capital Port-au-Prince.


The republican, taking over for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat,says he is heading to Washington soon. Scott Brown gives the GOP the 41st vote they need to sustian a filibuster 4, potentially blocking the president’s health care.


The so-called White House “Gate Crashers” take the Fifth, with officials wanting to know how this couple made though security into a state dinner. But the Salahis are not talking to a congressional committee, involking their right against self-incrimination.


A California man was all set open his new strip club. Now he has some cleaning-up to do. A 150 ponds goat smashed its way into the club and the incident was all recorded on tape

 


 



1 trauma
n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
2 jolt
v.(使)摇动,(使)震动,(使)颠簸
  • We were worried that one tiny jolt could worsen her injuries.我们担心稍微颠簸一下就可能会使她的伤势恶化。
  • They were working frantically in the fear that an aftershock would jolt the house again.他们拼命地干着,担心余震可能会使房子再次受到震动。
3 devastated
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
  • The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
  • His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
4 filibuster
n.妨碍议事,阻挠;v.阻挠
  • A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.一个参议员硬把这个题目拉扯进来,作为一种阻碍议事的手法。
  • The democrats organized a filibuster in the senate.民主党党员在参议院上组织了阻挠议事。
标签: filibuster
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a fall guy
adrenaline-filled
agglutinogens
aggradation plain
antisatics
balance of mutual accounts
broad bud
Campina Grande do Sul
chamel
chip disposal
chromatopathy
city parks
compensatorily
consentment
constant resistance network
Copper Canyon
crimebusting
crutchlike
cyberphile
demer (le demer riviere)
display of force
due share capital and dividends
electrical engineerings
electro-chemical
electrohydraulic lithotripsy
enumerative definition
fire whirl
firehose instability
forgery of negotiable instruments
Galigher tilting filter
guaranteed line of credit
histophysiological
hopak
Kasuko
kelung-insulare
lageracetal
laluna
laticiferous tissue
ligamenea cinguli extremitatis superioris
lipacidaemia
made no doubt
manganapatite
map set
Mauritiella
monoaryl
mopazine
non-adiabatic process
nonpredictable ADR
Obernheim
oesophageal diverticulum
on-chip capacitive coupling
outes
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Peschanoye, Ozero
pianissimos
pightles
pre-cinematographic
price-cuttings
profluvium lactis
proportional counter spectrometer
pulsating extractor
pure coma
purple milk vetches
R.D.E.
Re.I
recolonises
record access block
restoring and treating injured soft tissues
rift-sawn
road managers
Rockerville
Royal Academy of Arts
running tool
sacred promise
screen effect
self-holding taper
self-motivatings
selfpubs
semi-real-time processing
semmelweiss
shamshak
sleeptherapy
soft fail
solid-state high-energy electronics
stable glass fiber
streptococcus septicus liquenfaciens
Streptomyces erythrochromogenes
supraoral tooth
switch room
there'll be the devil to pay
thigh-protector
towie
trasmutable
trot sb around
truck-mounted pile frame
unassumed
Uncaria macrophylla
visitor centre
wall attached jet
web-winged
well-heling
yungchia