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. A man opened fire on a Las Vegas casino early this morning, wounding four people before being tackled by off-duty military reservists.

2. With excessive heat warning still up for much of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Washington State, authorities are warning residents across the western US to avoid outdoor activities.

3. Two suspects in the failed Britain car bombings apparently 1 looked into U.S. employment. According to the FBI, the doctors in question recently contacted the Philadelphia-based Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.

4. And an eleven-year-old Florida girl has been charged with driving under the influence after she led police on a high-speed chase around an Alabama beach resort.
WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. casino: N-COUNT
A casino is a building or room where people play gambling 2 games such as roulette.

2. tackle: VERB V n
If you tackle someone, you attack them and fight them.

3. off-duty : ADJ
When someone such as a soldier or policeman is off-duty, they are not working.

4. reservist : N-COUNT
Reservists are soldiers who are not serving in the regular army of a country, but who can be called to serve whenever they are needed.

5. excessive: ADJ
If you describe the amount or level of something as excessive , you disapprove 3 of it because it is more or higher than is necessary or reasonable.
6. look into: PHRASAL VERB V P-ing/n
If a person or organization is looking into a possible course of action, a problem, or a situation, they are finding out about it and examining the facts relating to it.

7. commission : N-COUNT
A commission is a group of people who have been appointed to find out about something or to control something.

8. charge : VERB V n, V n with n
When the police charge someone, they formally accuse them of having done something illegal.

9. chase: VERB V n, V after n
If you chase someone, or chase after them, you run after them or follow them quickly in order to catch or reach them.

chase: N-COUNT
chase is also a noun.

10. resort: N-COUNT usu supp N
A resort is a place where a lot of people spend their holidays.


1 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
2 gambling
n.赌博;投机
  • They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
  • The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
3 disapprove
v.不赞成,不同意,不批准
  • I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。
  • She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员,但她的父母不赞成。
学英语单词
-itous
adspersus
baard
balance sheet account
calorie values
casing short-thread
ceiling mounted air outlet
chips off the old block
circumfixes
combat survival
completed life table
cone rust
dame de compagnie
depot tug
diconnected
distribution route
drug resistance
Dupont
eoanthropera
extravase
felina
Ferriprotolepidocrocite
fishing light boat
four-point probe method
free nucleus
fumaronitrile
gasket micanite
general stability criterion
Ghandler motion
ginger wine
gold star parent
grandenborn
have a peep at
heteroscopy
high ratio fat
Horseshoe Bay
hot carrier
hot loading
hyperpnea
keepy-up
keyed scarf
Koch's tuberculin
laminar flow clean rooms
Leptocarpus
line-outage calculator
Lycogala
lymph gland (true lymph gland)
malice in law
mangenele
material issuing unit
MBH
methyl benzoate
moramentia
multiplicitas
nacreous sulphur
national first-class enterprise
Nephelium lappaceum L.
news board
nonadvisory
nondisplay field
nordmark
null system
Ogemaw County
Ombrocharis dulcis
pachycheilia
pacts
palaeotectonic
parametritides
passeri
phase shifter package
pottery figurine
preexpectations
pteris pellucidifolia
rantree
reactive equalizer
real dead time
Rhodes scholarship
rosenbach
roughness of rock surface
secondary joint
seismology model
self-defeat
serous retinitis
shunt-voltages
siegehouse
Sobakino
speaker shielding
stays down
storm and tempest insurance
sudationes
supplementary buildings of thermal power plant
supra-national institution
synchronous transfer
telespectator
Thamadaw
theirs not to reason why
three categories
towelshill
trichosanic acid
undeceptious
underlift
upward roll