时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2010年(八)月


英语课

The landslide 1 pour to Zhouqu town in seconds, leaving behind mud and rock several stories high, buildings destroyed, families broken. Floodwaters cut through the disaster site in every direction. Even when rescuers do find a body, it takes hours to get it out. The dead lined the streets, and the makeshift more. There is a danger of disease spreading, heat stroke and a lack of clean water, but the digging goes on.


 


This muddy lake that you see didn't exist about a week ago. These are the floodwaters that have buried entire villages in the district of Ghotki in northern Sindh province. Thousands of people still stranded 2 in some of these villages. These are conditions these people have lived in for about a week now. They're saying about 1,000 more people left in this area stranded, but this hovercraft simply doesn't have any more room.


 


Source familiar with the investigation 3 has told us that Senator Ted 4 Stevens is among those who died in that plane crash. Senator Ted Stevens, you can see him there, was the longest serving Republican ever, in the, in the Senate, he was the Senator from Alaska, he lost his bid for re-election in 2008. That plane crash last night about 8 o'clock Alaska Time, 8 p.m. Alaska Time. It took rescuers about 12 hours to get to the plane, because it was in rugged 5 terrain 6 in southwestern Alaska.


 


Hey, I'm 80 years old. All my life has been from the beginning public service. That’s all I've ever done. Been in the Army, been a state legislator, been a federal prosecutor 7, 40 years here, and all I'm saying is that if it is the judgment 8 of people here, for whatever reason, that I resign, then heck, have the Ethics 9 Committee, expedite this. Don't leave me swinging in the wind until November. Hey, if I was you, I may want me to go away too. I am not going away. I am here.


 


This drive-through attack, happened in Toledo, Ohio, New Year's morning. Melanie DuShane became enraged 10 when she was told that McDonald's was only serving breakfast. It was 6:00 a.m.


 


She got out of the car, she punched the employee in the mouth a couple of times, as you can see there. Tried to climb through the window but couldn't get the leg up. Maybe she didn't have all her faculties 11 in place.


 


Then when the woman behind the counter closes the window, she grabs a half-empty beer bottle and throws it through the glass. Last month the woman got 60 days behind bars, 3 years probation 12 for her McNugget meltdown.

 



n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
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。
vt.翻晒,撒,撒开
  • The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
  • She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
adj.高低不平的,粗糙的,粗壮的,强健的
  • Football players must be rugged.足球运动员必须健壮。
  • The Rocky Mountains have rugged mountains and roads.落基山脉有崇山峻岭和崎岖不平的道路。
n.地面,地形,地图
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。
n.起诉人;检察官,公诉人
  • The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
  • The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
n.伦理学;伦理观,道德标准
  • The ethics of his profession don't permit him to do that.他的职业道德不允许他那样做。
  • Personal ethics and professional ethics sometimes conflict.个人道德和职业道德有时会相互抵触。
使暴怒( enrage的过去式和过去分词 ); 歜; 激愤
  • I was enraged to find they had disobeyed my orders. 发现他们违抗了我的命令,我极为恼火。
  • The judge was enraged and stroke the table for several times. 大法官被气得连连拍案。
n.能力( faculty的名词复数 );全体教职员;技巧;院
  • Although he's ninety, his mental faculties remain unimpaired. 他虽年届九旬,但头脑仍然清晰。
  • All your faculties have come into play in your work. 在你的工作中,你的全部才能已起到了作用。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.缓刑(期),(以观后效的)察看;试用(期)
  • The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱,而且将他缓刑察看一年。
  • His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后,他的工资增加了800元。
学英语单词
adaptive immune system
advocates-general
air starting valve
airtight coating
Albrechtschraufite
antihegemony
arkosic bentonite
attribute assignment
beef middle casing
before-separation costs
break a law
brother-sister
bust down
car-carrying capacity
card sharpers
cerium-142
circumscribed edema
consider that
contradictory
damage damaged
DEC (distance echo correction)
defeminnization
double-blind study
driving channel
dual capacity
Etoundou
factorial duality
fixed-doh
fluochrome
fosberg
Giovanni di Bernardone
Gistel
Heegner number
highest monthly mean level
homogeneous suspension reactor
hunner
Ida Tarbell
insider-dealings
institutionalizes
intermolecular orbital
juris possessio
khayas
lithic sandstone
long distance telephone exchange
low-note
Lynenol
manorialize
microaccelerometer
misdispense
monazite-(La)
Muju-gun
munida japonica
Naqib
noise temperature
none of that
nore
one word
open matte
Penex process
picture traverse
postocular spot
pyrrosia transmorrisonensis ching
quarantine area
quick learner
Radio approach aids.
reactor poison
redwood families
relational database (rdb)
reverse flow type viscometer
ring sb up
russula emetica
scammonite
setting retarder
sevenpences
shamika
silicon target camera tube
smart-assed
snarling test
sphinginer
spondylotic
stock distributor
strikee
subfamily Taxodiaceae
summerlee
through-neck
tinea blanca
toe pattern
trogs
tuberculous myocarditis
turret clock trains
type width
typier
uncourtlike
unfolders
uniform certified public accountant examination
vincamicine
Viola variegata
width of jaw
WNAP
word code
working cutting edge
zinks