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. If you’re planning to get away this Thanksgiving, chances are if you haven’t left yet, some holiday hassles will be in you future. Long lines are building at major airports including Washington, Chicago and Dallas. AAA estimates more than 38 million people will travel 50 miles or more for Thanksgiving.

2. Ninety homes were damaged when an explosion from a nearby chemical plant shook the town of Danvers, a neighborhood about 20 miles north of Boston. Authorities in Massachusetts are pleased that despite the widespread damage only 10 people were hurt and none seriously injured.

3. "No comment". That’s the response from the United States Secret Service after President Bush’s 24-year-old daughter Barbara Bush was robbed of her purse and cellphone in broad daylight while visiting Argentina.

4. It sounds like a thriller 1 movie, but it’s not. Philippines' airport authorities have foiled an attempt by a Filipino woman to smuggle 2 more than 100 poisonous snakes and lizards 3 to Thailand Tuesday.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. hassle : N-VAR
A hassle is a situation that is difficult and involves problems, effort, or arguments with people.

2. be robbed of : PHR
If someone is robbed of something that they deserve, have, or need, it is taken away from them.

3. thriller : N-COUNT
A thriller is a book, film, or play that tells an exciting fictional 4 story about something such as criminal activities or spying.



n.惊险片,恐怖片
  • He began by writing a thriller.That book sold a million copies.他是写惊险小说起家的。那本书卖了一百万册。
  • I always take a thriller to read on the train.我乘火车时,总带一本惊险小说看。
vt.私运;vi.走私
  • Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
  • She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境,没有被逮捕。
n.蜥蜴( lizard的名词复数 )
  • Nothing lives in Pompeii except crickets and beetles and lizards. 在庞培城里除了蟋蟀、甲壳虫和蜥蜴外,没有别的生物。 来自辞典例句
  • Can lizards reproduce their tails? 蜥蜴的尾巴断了以后能再生吗? 来自辞典例句
adj.小说的,虚构的
  • The names of the shops are entirely fictional.那些商店的名字完全是虚构的。
  • The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius.这两位作者代表了天才小说家两个极端。
学英语单词
act toward(s)
angoran
animal fibre
application vulnerability description language
avian paratyphoid
balance in our favor
barium ethylsulfate
beelds
belongingly
block programme
broomhalls
burn through
catch for let-off ratchet
cephalinase
coordinate basis
cryptonymies
cultural pedagogy
Donus
dry extract
ecology pressure
ex-far
excess purchasing power
failure branch chart
front-mounted connector
geluce
gene tagged
geographical position of celestial body
giustoes
glyceric acid ethyl ester
group order
hang on
heat-shrinkable fibre
hob measuring machine
hydrometallurgical powder extraction
ingratiate oneself
inspissated bile
insurance-based
intercontinental subduction
intercultural identity
international conference
irrecusable
kynuric acid
laissez-faire economy
laugh on the wrong side of one's face
lay the responsibility at sb's door
madrass
marine court of inquiry
marine underwriter
Menae
microdonations
microprogrammed data processor
moderately structured problem
modulation type
moondial
moviebox
net acceleration
nominal cross-sectional area
NTBs
null-
nunsploitation
pancreatitic
premitotic nucleus
propagated error
pull weight
quarter-girth
race about
rat-kangaroos
rotten ice
saipanese
samer
savellis
school you
scrimmaging
scutching rotor
single headed
Sinian period
soda-Spodumene
spectrum scanner
Sporobolomycetales
ST_travel_parts-of-aeroplanes
stonecrafts
straight with the world
STX
sugar campaign
tank collapsing
tassili
technically speaking
tera-coulomb
TGV
that's
three-way dumping
time-division multiplier
trademark dispute
transduodenal choledocholithotomy
tryptophanes
united states agency for international development (usaid)
unperfections
vacuum guide servo
water-soluble phosphoric acid
width adjustment
willie mayss
woelm alumina