时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. Residents of the Mid-Atlantic region got hit with another day of triple-digit temperatures. Officials are urging people to conserve 1 electrical power and stay indoors. An excessive heat warning remains 2 in effect for the area until tomorrow.

2. Two Americans have been killed in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. One man was a soldier in the Israeli army from Philadelphia; the other man was a civilian 3 who'd been living in the area for some 20 years.

3. Many Cuban Americans in Miami have been waiting to hear word of Fidel Castro's health. Cuban officials announced Monday that President Fidel Castro had temporarily handed power to his brother following surgery. There is still much speculation 4 about the leader's status.

4. An SUV crashed to the front of a Rhode Island store, narrowly missing a customer inside. And it was all caught on tape by the store's surveillance camera. You can see the man ready to pay at the cash register when the SUV slams to the glass front of the store.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. conserve: verb
If you conserve a supply of something, you use it carefully so that it lasts for a long time.
=save

2. word: n-uncount
If there is word of something, people receive news or information about it.

3. speculate: verb
If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.
Noun: speculation

4. cash register: n-count <美>收银机
A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that ia used to add up and record how much people pay, and in which the money is kept.



vt.保存,保护,节约,节省,守恒,不灭
  • He writes on both sides of the sheet to conserve paper.他在纸张的两面都写字以节省用纸。
  • Conserve your energy,you'll need it!保存你的精力,你会用得着的!
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • 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。
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机
  • Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
  • There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
学英语单词
African lynx
air-vent needle
ample room
ansi standards
arctic mire
Ashcroft sodium process
autolithify
automatic exposure control device
autosynch
ballistic mortar
Binucleata
bridge cut off relay
bza
Caltagirone, Fiume
car vibration damper
cascalote
casting votes
ceress
character transliteration
close button
coast dredging
cogil
cold open
collaboration software
combination of automata
cooling theory
cosh pocket
cross purchase agreement
Damvillers
dendrobium affine steud.
diagonal conducting wall (dcw)generator
digital recorder signal generator
digitalanalogy
direction ratio
dop injection
DTGS detector
enruby
especfico
exception vector
family poeciliidaes
finger rafting
Georgiyevo
glossary of marine engineering
grammographus submaculatus
green light relay
greencard
haul cost
Helm aweather
hydrostatic equilibrium
impersonalize
incremental computer
Krukenberg spindle pigmentation
ligamentopexis
low orbit
luder's band
manned return vehicle reentry
mediastinal cellulitis
Mirsky-Pollister method
mote knife
mundicative
non contact type
occasionates
output phase shift
phonism
portfolio parameters
prefoliation
program structure in fund accounting
promotion systems
refreshment trolley service
RF ammeter
rheomode
Rimbo
round-robin comparison
rowest
ruinest
Santana do Ipanema
satellite mobile channel
sealing voltage
self driven ingot buggy
self-magnetic flux
self-stabilizing steering
shape recognition
ski suit
steam blast device
stoppage of publication
subland drill
sun-bronzed
sweep
syncolpate grain
take the fangs of
to-tight
transmitter ready
tremulousness
tricennal
TubeSat
twin-unit pack
underway bottom sampler
v'lu
warties
wsd
XPF
youth crusades