时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2012年


英语课

 They thought it could bring people together. 


The New York City Marathon due to be held this weekend might have given folks something to cheer about in the wake of Sandy.
But hosting a marathon in which runners would make their way through devastated 1 neighborhoods, and the diversion 2 of precious resources had residents and local politicians outraged 3
The City of New York right now is talking about getting water out of the Battery Tunnel and preparing for a marathon. We're pulling bodies out of water. You see the disconnect here?
So in an 11th hour decision, Mayor Bloomberg called off the race. 
Deputy 4 Mayor Howard Wolfson: there were people who found the marathon, the very idea of it  to be painful. And, as I said, that's not what the marathon is, that's not what it's about. This is a unifying 5 event. It's not a divisive event. If it's a divisive event, it's not the marathon and it's better to do it next year when it's back to being the marathon again.
The decision's a disappointment to runners from around the world who've been training for months for the big day. 
I thought it was a good idea for them to keep it going , maybe the city needed a lift ,  but I guess they have better reasons, I'm sure they have better reasons, better places for the police, firemen and ambulance to be used somewhere else.
We best get on the ale then, because I've been on the wagon 6 for three weeks, staying off the ale, so at least we can go and have a drink tonight then.
This is the first time in it's 40 year history that the event has been canceled.

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。
n.转移,转向,消遣,娱乐,临时绕行路
  • Golf is my father's favourite diversion.高尔夫球是我父亲最喜欢的娱乐。
  • The magician's talk created a diversion of attention.魔术师的讲话分散了人们的注意力。
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
n.代理人,代表,副职;adj.代理的,副的
  • John will act as a deputy for me during my absence.我离开期间,约翰将代理我的职务。
  • She is the deputy headmistress of the school.她是那所学校的代理校长。
使联合( unify的现在分词 ); 使相同; 使一致; 统一
  • In addition, there were certain religious bonds of a unifying kind. 此外,他们还有某种具有一种统一性质的宗教上的结合。
  • There is a unifying theme, and that is the theme of information flow within biological systems. 我们可以用一个总的命题,把生物学系统内的信息流来作为这一研究主题。
n.四轮马车,手推车,面包车;无盖运货列车
  • We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。
  • The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。
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abandoned land
above and beyond the call of duty
anuwats
armed riots
arrangement in parallel
asynchronous communication interface
audio tracks
berailroaded
Breit-Tuve's theorem
bridge ratio resistance
carboxytransferase
chaulmoogryl alcohol
chin barbel
cold strip mill
colour fidelity
come out of nowhere
complementary convex program
consolidated accounts
cottage bread
cryptic mutant
damp blocking spleen Yang
decoupages
Department of Textitles
Duane syndrome
DYNAMOSPHERE
ecclesiasticism
electric installation
elliptic coordinates
empirical-rational
enechema
ether extract
event history data
factorships
flyweight
fuel return pipe port
gentiobiose
habit pattern interference
hardware origin
hoover digger
Ilex hirsuta
immodesty
indevour
indigo copper (covellite)
injection port
instruction execution phase
interferoetalon
iscoes
isothermal quench
jewish holy days
keyway broaching
kobilinsky
lenitive
limit of tidal current
list of lists
matrix operation
metrological certification
network of cutting-series
neutron depolarization effect
non interest bearing currency
nose wheelie
obes-
object value
objective lens adjustment
outfields
paper scarlet
parallel processing system evaluation board
pea-type
pectorimyon
Petrocosmea kerrii
photodechlorination
pisarev
pistillidia
polycondense
precise radar significant location
proteiform
radial convergence shift
reactionists
rollercoaster tycoon
self-exhibition
Shenmai
site grade level
son of a sea cook
staged
subtilise
surprisings
symmetrical wavelet
take someone red-handed
talk through one's neck
taxitic
tetanus nascentium
tetradecagons
the appalachian mountains
three-puttings
to do some shopping
trapezoid nucleus
unresistible
virtual size
white muscular disease
workboats
z-values
Zimmerwaldian
znik