美联社新闻一分钟 2005-09-21
时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2005
1.Strengthening rapidly to a category 2 storm, Hurricane Rita lashes 1 the Florida Keys with flooding rain and winds of 100 miles an hour.
2.With Rita bound for the Gulf 2 of Mexico, New Orleans' mayor suspends the city’s reopening, ordering nearly everyone to leave again.
3.Roadside bombings beyond Baghdad kill five US soldiers, pushing the total number of American forces killed in Iraq above 1,900.
4.Afghanistan's leader challenges the need for major foreign military operations there, calling for a new approach to tackling militants 3.
5.And Simon Wiesenthal, the holocaust's survivor 4 who tracked down Nazi 5 war criminals for decades after World War II has died at 96.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. bound
6 bound bounds bounding bounded
If the quantity or performance of something bounds ahead, it increases or improves quickly and suddenly.
The shares bounded ahead a further 11p to 311p.
The economy isn't bounding back as fast as people expected.
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2. tackle
4 tackle tackles tackling tackled
If you tackle someone, you attack them and fight them.
He claims Pasolini overtook and tackled him, pushing him into the dirt.
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- Mother always lashes out food for the children's party. 孩子们聚会时,母亲总是给他们许多吃的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Never walk behind a horse in case it lashes out. 绝对不要跟在马后面,以防它突然猛踢。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- 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。
- The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
- There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。