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. Hurricane Wilma churns toward Florida as tens of thousands of residents are ordered to evacuate 1 vulnerable islands and coastal 2 areas.

2. Residents and tourists wander the flooded streets of Cancun Mexico in search of food as the sun returns after a battering 3 by Wilma.

3. The British government says the type of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly strain that's plagued Asia and Europe.

4. Nigerian officials report finding no signs of life after reaching the site where a passenger plane carrying 117 people crashed after takeoff.

5. And eight-time Oscar nominee 4 Al Pacino has been honored at the 20th annual American Cinematheque Awards in Beverly Hills.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. churn
2 churn churns churning churned
If something churns water, mud, or dust, it moves it about violently.
Ferries churn the waters of Howe Sound from Langdale to Horseshoe Bay.
...unsurfaced roads now churned into mud by the annual rains.
VB

+ churn up churns up; churning up; churned up
Churn up means the same as churn.
The recent rain had churned up the waterfall into a muddy whirlpool.
Occasionally they slap the water with their tails or churn it up in play.
...muddy, churned-up ground.
PHR-V

2. quarantine
1 quarantine
If a person or animal is in quarantine, they are being kept separate from other people or animals for a set period of time, usually because they have or may have a disease.
She was sent home to Oxford 5 and put in quarantine.
No mammals other than people may enter the country without lengthy 6 quarantine.
N-UNCOUNT: oft in/into n



v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
n.用坏,损坏v.连续猛击( batter的现在分词 )
  • The film took a battering from critics in the US. 该影片在美国遭遇到批评家的猛烈抨击。
  • He kept battering away at the door. 他接连不断地砸门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
n.牛津(英国城市)
  • At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
  • This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。
adj.漫长的,冗长的
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
  • The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。
学英语单词
acetate cellulose fibre
aerodynamic loading
agricultural fertilizer
akebia pentaphylla mak.
altitude above sea level
automatic lubricating device
auxiliary crate controller
available capacity
bank reinstatement method
bedizenment
bituminous priming solution
black and white group
Brownville Junction
bumetopia lanshuana
capillary bronchitis
carpodes
chemical glassware
choice activity
coded automatic gain control
contra-regularity
cost maintenance
counteractions
Crataegus oxycantha
cryoprecipitating
Cynanchum bicampanulatum
dip from
dissipative material
dividends receivable account
duck belting
dye leveller
East Aberthaw
elastic hysteresis loop
electric furnace steelmaking
emission point
emptying outlet
epigastric reflex
falling step
fast Fourier transform algorithm
fault-secure
forward reflection
g?-protein
galdosian
genus Phalanger
give the law to
Gordie Howe
GP (gauge pressure)
greca
haemorrhagic septicemia
haryencephalia
hedgehoggy
high strength alloy steel
immeshing
impact loan
in large print
intelli-sense
internal void fraction
Jigawa State
laike
lobbying expenses
meters per second
middle sample
Mittellandkanal
munge
number of flutes
off-line application
Ohlenstedt
overstrows
ownership of land
Pantholin
pavetta pulcherima
pentahydroborite
pneumatolytic metamorphism
pole height
precision code
pressure gauge with bakelite case
principle of action and reaction
pseudaletia unipunctas
pseudobarbella levieri(ren et gard)nog
psychophants
public welfare payment
rainbow sprinkler
random parameter system
rectifying developable surface
Regio antebrachialis anterior
rim-jobs
sanitary disposal
selforganizing system
Sergines
shihchienfang series
spy glass
stiff-tailed ducks
strip to the waist
taken up the gauntlet
tendon tube
the worst
therapeutic serum
tree function
trenching sampling
unsweat
uphigh
X-radiation X
zebrinus