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. Floridians line up for water, gas, ice and generators 1 outside the few stores opened after Hurricane Wilma cuts a costly 2 deadly swath across the peninsula.

2. Election officials say Iraq's constitution was adopted by a majority in a fair vote during the October referendum with Sunni opponents failing to defeat it.

3. Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern Civil Rights movement dies of natural causes. She was 92.

4. The White House sidesteps questions about whether Vice 3 President Dick Cheney passed his top aide the identity of a CIA officer central to a federal grand jury probe.

5. And a thrill-seeking grandmother in Australia celebrates her 92nd birthday in high style by making her very first tandem 4 skydive jump

 

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. swathe
4 swathe
If a person or thing cuts a swathe through something, they pass through it causing great destruction or change.
The storm cut a swathe through southern England.
Keegan's team have been cutting an irresistible 5 swathe through the first division.
PHR: V inflects, PHR n The noun is also spelled swath

2. thrill
1 thrill thrills
If something gives you a thrill, it gives you a sudden feeling of great excitement, pleasure, or fear.
I can remember the thrill of not knowing what I would get on Christmas morning.
It's a great thrill for a cricket-lover like me to play at the home of cricket.
...the realization 6 that new adventures, new thrills, and new worlds lie ahead.
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n/-ing

3. tandem
3 tandem
If one person does something in tandem with another person, the two people do it by working together.
He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.
PHR: usu PHR after v, oft PHR with n

4. skydiving
skydiving
Skydiving is the sport of jumping out of an aeroplane and falling freely through the air before opening your parachute.
N-UNCOUNT



n.发电机,发生器( generator的名词复数 );电力公司
  • The factory's emergency generators were used during the power cut. 工厂应急发电机在停电期间用上了。
  • Power can be fed from wind generators into the electricity grid system. 电力可以从风力发电机流入输电网。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.同时发生;配合;adv.一个跟着一个地;纵排地;adj.(两匹马)前后纵列的
  • Malcolm's contract will run in tandem with his existing one.马尔科姆的合同将与他手头的合同同时生效。
  • He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.他正配合欺诈重案办公室的官员工作。
adj.非常诱人的,无法拒绝的,无法抗拒的
  • The wheel of history rolls forward with an irresistible force.历史车轮滚滚向前,势不可挡。
  • She saw an irresistible skirt in the store window.她看见商店的橱窗里有一条叫人着迷的裙子。
n.实现;认识到,深刻了解
  • We shall gladly lend every effort in our power toward its realization.我们将乐意为它的实现而竭尽全力。
  • He came to the realization that he would never make a good teacher.他逐渐认识到自己永远不会成为好老师。
学英语单词
administrative power
aquometer
Arrats
artificial transmutation
atonalyl
awowe
biotopes
boot boys
cabbler
Caen
callalou
campiest
cattle-grid
chain initiation
check gauge
chemical dependency
chemical fuel motor
cold junction compensator
comb joint
Commodian
conference on data system language
cumberland pt.
dept. cost center
desexualises
dollar oil
dual in-line package
egoistic
elastic money supply
electric logging device
electro-horticulture
emery disk
epicondylar fracture
erythrocyte virus
exemplifies
fantasia
gear shift lever ball housing
gravity purity
greek to me
higher degree
horizontal bottom furnace
ichthyosiform dermatitis
illegalizations
indium(ii) bromide
inexquisite
infracapitular gland
IOPA
jitim
law of constant return
lawn sugar
leahter
lentick
loss of buoyancy method
mamillate
mandelate
market supply and demand
medial temperature
megaton bombs
metaconstitutional
michelia bodinieri finet et gagnep.
Michler's carbinol
monthly payment
nantoquita nantokite
narrow exchange rate margin
nonstochastic forecasting model
obstinate
overgeneralizations
passive indication device
personal authentication code
pivot tripod
plastic yield
polarization tube
police procedurals
power brand
profound influence
put the change on sb
recommended temperature ranges for heat treatment
room air plant monitoring system
Ryhage separator
short-save propagation
Sitasjaure
slip off something
soft swell (can)
sphenosquamosal
supraorbital incisure
surveyor general
take it to the street
tax-plannings
the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
throw oneself at sb
tip drills
towing hawser
triflyl azide
triphosphopyridines
trochlea femoris
U-galena
unstubborn
upatissa
vertical blanking width
water-treating system
with a will
worm type of reduction gearing
yrself