美联社新闻一分钟 2005-08-30
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Hurricane Katrina plowed 2 into the Gulf 3 Coast at daybreak Monday with shrieking 5 , 145-mph winds and blinding rain.
2. Katrina ripped 2 holes in the curved roof of the Louisiana Superdome, letting in rain as thousands of storm refugees huddled 7 inside.
3. President Bush considered the decision on whether to release some oil from US petroleum 8 reserves to help refiners hurt by Hurricane Katrina.
4. Thousands of Sunni demonstrators rallied in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit to denounce Iraq's new constitution. The demonstrations 9 came a day after negotiators finished the new charter without the endorsement 10 of Sunni Arabs.
5. And for the first time in a long time, rock music dominated the MTV Video Music Awards with Green Day winning 7 moonmen.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. plough into
1 plough into ploughs into; ploughing into; ploughed into
If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
PHR-V (AM) plow 1
2. shriek 4
1 shriek shrieks 11 shrieking shrieked 12
When someone shrieks, they make a short, very loud cry, for example because they are suddenly surprised, are in pain, or are laughing.
She shrieked and leapt from the bed.
Miranda shrieked with laughter.
VB
3. blinding
1 blinding
A blinding light is extremely bright.
The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
= dazzling
4. huddle 6
2 huddle huddles 13 huddling 14 huddled
If people huddle together or huddle round something, they stand, sit, or lie close to each other, usually because they all feel cold or frightened.
Tired and lost, we huddled together.
...strangers huddling together for warmth...
Hundreds of people huddled around a single transistor 15 radio listening to the announcement.
The survivors 16 spent the night huddled around bonfires.
VB
= cluster
- At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.每年这个时候农民们都在耕地。
- We will plow the field soon after the last frost.最后一场霜过后，我们将马上耕田。
- They plowed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland. 他们犁了将近10万英亩未开垦的高沼地。 来自辞典例句
- He plowed the land and then sowed the seeds. 他先翻土，然后播种。 来自辞典例句
- 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。
- Suddenly he began to shriek loudly.突然他开始大声尖叫起来。
- People sometimes shriek because of terror,anger,or pain.人们有时会因为恐惧，气愤或疼痛而尖叫。
- The boxers were goaded on by the shrieking crowd. 拳击运动员听见观众的喊叫就来劲儿了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They were all shrieking with laughter. 他们都发出了尖锐的笑声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They like living in a huddle.他们喜欢杂居在一起。
- The cold wind made the boy huddle inside his coat.寒风使这个男孩卷缩在他的外衣里。
- We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
- We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。
- The Government of Iran advanced the price of petroleum last week.上星期伊朗政府提高了石油价格。
- The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油。
- Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
- The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。
- We are happy to give the product our full endorsement.我们很高兴给予该产品完全的认可。
- His presidential campaign won endorsement from several celebrities.他参加总统竞选得到一些社会名流的支持。
- shrieks of fiendish laughter 恶魔般的尖笑声
- For years, from newspapers, broadcasts, the stages and at meetings, we had heard nothing but grandiloquent rhetoric delivered with shouts and shrieks that deafened the ears. 多少年来， 报纸上， 广播里， 舞台上， 会场上的声嘶力竭，装腔做态的高调搞得我们震耳欲聋。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- She shrieked in fright. 她吓得尖叫起来。
- Li Mei-t'ing gave a shout, and Lu Tzu-hsiao shrieked, "Tell what? 李梅亭大声叫，陆子潇尖声叫：“告诉什么？ 来自汉英文学 - 围城
- The little girl huddles herself up. 小女孩把身子缩成一团。
- The child huddles down in the bed, listening to the sound of the storm. 孩子听到雷雨声，就在床上缩成了一团。
- This make of transistor radio is small and beautifully designed.这半导体收音机小巧玲珑。
- Every transistor has at least three electrodes.每个晶体管至少有三个电极。