美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-15
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Hundreds of Iraqi police and army troops fanned out across Baghdad， setting up checkpoints and fortifying 2 polling stations ahead of a historic constitutional referendum.
2. Thousands of birds were culled 4 in Romania after poultry 5 in the Danube delta 6 tested positive for bird flu this week.
3. Russian security forces try to clear out the last pockets of rebel resistance after more than a day of fighting that killed at least a hundred and eight people.
4. Pakistan called off the search for survivors 7 of last week's devastating 8 earthquake to concentrate on helping 9 the millions left homeless.
5. And Daniel Craig was introduced as the first blond James Bond and only the second Englishman to star as 007 in the film series.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. fan out
1 fan out fans out; fanning out; fanned out
If a group of people or things fan out, they move forwards away from a particular point in different directions.
The main body of British, American, and French troops had fanned out to the west.
We fanned out from the farmhouse 10 in twos and threes.
PHR-V
= spread out
2. fortify 1
1 fortify fortifies 11 fortifying fortified 12
To fortify a place means to make it stronger and more difficult to attack, often by building a wall or ditch round it.
...British soldiers working to fortify an airbase in Bahrain.
VB
fortified
He remains 13 barricaded 14 inside his heavily-fortified mansion 15.
...fortified castles and villages.
ADJ-GRADED
3. cull 3
2 cull culls 16 culling 17 culled
To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers.
To save remaining herds 18 and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
VB
+ cull culls
Also a noun.
In the reserves of Zimbabwe and South Africa, annual culls are already routine.
N-COUNT
culling
The culling of seal cubs 19 has led to an outcry from environmental groups.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
4. delta
delta deltas 20
A delta is an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea.
...the Mississippi delta.
N-COUNT: oft n N
5. pocket
4 pocket pockets
A pocket of something is a small area where something is happening, or a small area which has a particular quality, and which is different from the other areas around it.
Trapped in a pocket of air, they had only 40 minutes before the tide flooded the chamber 21.
The newly established government controls the bulk of the city apart from a few pockets of resistance.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
- This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
- This treaty forbade the United States to fortify the canal.此条约禁止美国对运河设防。
- Fortifying executive function and restraining impulsivity are possible with active interventions. 积极干预可能有助加强执行功能和抑制冲动性。
- Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face, fortifying himself against still another disappointment. 文戈不再张望，他绷紧脸，仿佛正在鼓足勇气准备迎接另一次失望似的。
- It is usually good practice to cull the poorest prior to field planting.通常在实践上的好方法是在出圃栽植前挑出最弱的苗木。
- Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。
- The herd must be culled. 必须有选择地杀掉部分牧畜。 来自辞典例句
- The facts were culled from various sources. 这些事实是从各方收集到的。 来自辞典例句
- 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?
- He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
- The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔，形成了一个三角洲。
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- We fell for the farmhouse as soon as we saw it.我们对那所农舍一见倾心。
- We put up for the night at a farmhouse.我们在一间农舍投宿了一夜。
- He fortified himself against the cold with a hot drink. 他喝了一杯热饮御寒。
- The enemy drew back into a few fortified points. 敌人收缩到几个据点里。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- The police barricaded the entrance. 警方在入口处设置了路障。
- The doors had been barricaded. 门都被堵住了。
- The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
- The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
- Big business culls the brightest from among college graduates. 大企业从大学毕业生中选拔最优秀的人材。 来自辞典例句
- The mathematicians turned to culling periodic solutions. 数学家们转而去挑选周期解。 来自辞典例句
- It took us a week to find you, a week of culling out prejudice and hatred. 我们花了一个星期的时间找到你们，把偏见和憎恨剔除出去。 来自演讲部分
- Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
- There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。
- a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
- Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Tidal channels, deltas, and washover fans are characteristically associated with offshore bars. 潮汐水道、三角洲和冲刷扇典型地与滨外砂洲伴生在一起。
- I know many of the early civilizations prospered on deltas. 我知道很多古老的文明都是在三角洲上蓬勃发展起来的。