时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


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1. Washington is not looking for a graceful 1 exit from the Iraq war. This assurance comes from President Bush in a private meeting Thursday with Iraqi leader Nouri al-Maliki. During the meeting, Maliki argued that his military and police can handle security in the war-torn country reportedly within the next six months.

2. A SeaWorld whale trainer is now nursing a broken foot after one of the park's killer 2 whales dragged the trainer underwater during a show. Officials of the park in San Diego say the whale may be allowed to perform again.

3. Storms that roared through the northwestern Rockies earlier in the week have now blasted the southern plains in Midwest. Many areas have received significant amounts of ice and snow.

4. A former Russian prime minister is now the latest possible victim of radiation poisoning. He is reporting symptoms consistent with contamination. This development comes as British investigators 3 are scour 4ing multiple sites looking for clues in the poisoning death of a former Russian spy.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. nurse: verb
If you nurse an illness or injure, you allow it to get better by resting as much as possible.

2. radiation: n-uncount
Radiation consists of very small particles of a radioactive substance. Large amounts of radiation can cause illness and death.

3. contaminate: verb
If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
contamination: n-uncount

4. scour: verb
If you scour something such as a place or a book, you make a thorough search of it to find what you are looking for.



adj.优美的,优雅的;得体的
  • His movements on the parallel bars were very graceful.他的双杠动作可帅了!
  • The ballet dancer is so graceful.芭蕾舞演员的姿态是如此的优美。
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.搜索;擦,洗,腹泻,冲刷
  • Mother made me scour the family silver.母亲让我擦洗家里的银器。
  • We scoured the telephone directory for clues.我们仔细查阅电话簿以寻找线索。
擦[洗]净,冲刷,洗涤
  • The police are scouring the countryside for the escaped prisoners. 警察正在搜索整个乡村以捉拿逃犯。
  • This is called the scouring train in wool processing. 这被称为羊毛加工中的洗涤系列。
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accrual principle
ad banner
adhesive failure
Adidiema
Air Force One
alkaline extracts of soils
angular overlap
arced up
array grammar
assisted memory
average profit
ball off
Baphicacanthus
body centrum
breed reactor
bring sb. in guitly
carbonaceous parting
cast by
chalkboard
check card
Chenopodium aristatum
Chinese speech information processing
class a ip
Clocaenog
coaitis
Command bar
contraband of war
contributing error
debtor country
disc module
Effontil
electronic photogrammetry
fire retardants
flameproof finishing
flat-compound dynamo
FMBs
free quasiparticle approximation
front engine
Geogia holly
hemi-aonil
humic acid combined fertilizer
hydroxylamine rearrangement
illegitimatizes
improper noun
inter-block
kitto
lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm
Linjiang
load variation
marine hydraulic fluid purifier
matzoon milk
mevorah
miner's horn
minor scale division
motion link
mysticality
new sol
nittiness
non-socialist
open-end pipe pile
operate time
oreoselinum
out-of-sequence control rod
output section
plant expansion
polyplastids
pressure surge
quayer
refrigerated rollingstock
regional coding
safety system support features
Saiyid Mūsa
sam-cloth
sand scrubber
Sberman-Chase assay test
seismicity
self-offender
shp
slow neutron filter
spatiotemporal mode
speculative investment
sssasisds-s
Staphylococcus aureus
statutory exemption
stew oneself
Stockhausen
stomatitis aphthosa
tag lines
terabecquerels
terminating power meter
thermal expansion and shrinkage
total ridge count
TTMS (telephone transmission measuring set)
UniData
uniform naming convention
vagueish
villela
watt hour capacity
worked out
yipper