时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2005


英语课

1. Rescue and relief efforts continue in Pakistan. The UN's emergency relief chief fears they are running out of time to get help to remote villages cut off by blocked roads.

2. Scores of Islamic militants 1 launch simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in this city in Russia's turbulent Caucasus region, sparking battles that killed at least 49 people.

3. The European Union says the bird flu virus found in Turkish poultry 2 was the H5N1 strain that scientists worry it might mutate into a human virus.

4. British playwright 3 and poet Harold Pinter has won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation 4, the academy said the 75-year-old playwright was one who restored the art form of writing plays.

5. And a course in exorcism supported by the Vatican is underway at one of \Rome's most prestigious 5 pontifical 6 universities

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. turbulent
1 turbulent
A turbulent time, place, or relationship is one in which there is a lot of change, confusion, and disorder 7.
They had been together for five or six turbulent years of rows and reconciliations 8.
The turbulent world of Middle Eastern politics defies prediction.
ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n

2. strain
11 strain strains
A strain of a germ, plant, or other organism is a particular type of it.
Every year new strains of influenza 9 develop.
...a particularly beautiful strain of Swiss pansies.
N-COUNT: usu N of n

3. mutate
2 mutate mutates mutating mutated
If something mutates into something different, it changes into that thing.
Overnight, the gossip begins to mutate into headlines.
VB

4. exorcism
exorcism exorcisms
Exorcism is the removing of evil spirits from a person or place by the use of prayer.
The exorcism was broadcast on television.
N-VAR



激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
n.家禽,禽肉
  • There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
  • What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?
n.剧作家,编写剧本的人
  • Gwyn Thomas was a famous playwright.格温·托马斯是著名的剧作家。
  • The playwright was slaughtered by the press.这位剧作家受到新闻界的无情批判。
n.引用,引证,引用文;传票
  • He had to sign the proposition for the citation.他只好在受奖申请书上签了字。
  • The court could issue a citation and fine Ms. Robbins.法庭可能会发传票,对罗宾斯女士处以罚款。
adj.有威望的,有声望的,受尊敬的
  • The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
  • You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。
adj.自以为是的,武断的
  • His words criticizing modern society just right indicate his pontifical character.他用以批评现代社会的言论恰好反映了他自大武断的性格。
  • The lawyer,with pontifical gravity,sat on a high chair.那律师摆出一副威严庄重的样子,坐在一把高脚椅上。
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
和解( reconciliation的名词复数 ); 一致; 勉强接受; (争吵等的)止息
  • You mean long-lost mother-son reconciliations in a restaurant? 你是说在餐厅调解分开多年的母子?
  • Responsible for communications with financial institutions, daily cash processing and daily and monthly cash bank reconciliations. 负责与各财务机构的沟通,了解现金日流动状况,确认与银行往来的现金日对账单和月对账单。
n.流行性感冒,流感
  • They took steps to prevent the spread of influenza.他们采取措施
  • Influenza is an infectious disease.流感是一种传染病。
学英语单词
6-Methyl-5-heptene-2-one
abelson
Abū Du'ān
accessory veins
air force communication system
air police
alkynyl compounds
antigen-reactive
ashchurches
B-moviesque
bonin-mariana island arc
bush-babies
calibration card
Caria
Cascade Pt.
chloropentane
coino-axis
constrained extremal problem
contacts resistance
conventional software
D5NSS
dactyly
debris flow movement region
detail data
dipleural type
directivity of antenna
elles
endomyelography
eolian suspension
epilogised
etioplast membranes
Faradic treatment unit
farinosa
Fenbutamide
fraudful
fresh water capacity
fully compressible
gnathostomatics
god-consciousness
ground tackle
Hallian stage
hard-drinking
Haw.
hematouria
homogeneous solution type reactor
hullett
hydrargyria
in flight from
in strength
industrial fatigue
isthmolongispora rotundata
janmaat
Kalamare
kechen
kleinfeld
knock sth off
Kuusamo
laparocolectomy
le vice anglais
loading broker
lysinuric
Mallory's phosphotungstic acidhematoxylin stain
manufactured articles of daily use
melolonthidaes
meneghinite
methylpelletierine
n-octadecane
national cultures
net national product
network like structure
nonnull element
normal duplex printing
not a proposition
of yours
operators pulpit
pentasepalous
physiognomics
post-operatively
proacrosomic granules
put to the blush
pyelosinus
pyrindine
right flank force
rubber extruding
scintipan
second brake pipe
second order correction
softest
stearn
sweep-through jammer
time-angle
transducer directivity
transistor input resistance
Tropidia angulosa
ultrasound-modulated medium frequency electrotherapy
up - and - down motion
vielma
villainous werther
wagenburg
wing pad
wonderlands
xword puzzle