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. SWAT teams and police dogs are searching Dawson College in Montreal Canada after they say a gunman opened fire on a cafeteria. An unknown number of people have been shot including a shooter who shot himself.

2. The coroner's office in the Bahamas says the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son is suspicious. The coroner says the cause of death is known but will not be released until toxicology results are in. 20-year-old Daniel Smith died while visiting the hospital where his mother recently gave birth to a baby girl.

3. Spacewalking astronauts struggle to loosen stuck bolts while assembling part of the International Space Station today. They had a few battles with hardware on their more than 7-hour mission. Astronauts lost another bolt, decided 1 to make do with 3 fasteners and had to deal with a broken power tool.

4. It's no longer a friendly rivalry 2 between two South Carolina city officials. A surveillance tape shows Jim Bell, walking behind the councilman's car, allegedly keying the vehicle as he passes. Police say they caught Mr. Bell vandalizing the car during a sting operation.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. coroner : n-count
A coroner is an official who is responsible for investigating the deaths of people who have died in a sudden, violent, or unusual way.

2. toxicology : n-uncount
Toxicology is the study of poisons.

3. make do with : phrase
If you make do with something, you use or have it instead of something else that you do not have, although it is not as good.

4. rivalry : n-var
Rivalry is competition or fighting between people, businesses, or organizations who are in the same area or want the same things.

5. vandalize :verb
If something such as a building or part of a building is vandalized by someone, it is damaged on purpose.



adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.竞争,竞赛,对抗
  • The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
  • He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。
学英语单词
5-hydroxytryptophan
a priori comparisons
air-breathing suit
anti-humanists
Belize Barrier Reef
bifilar helix slow-wave circuit
black compilation
border town pipers (scotland)
boze
bushfires
carboloy monoxide detector
caustic magnesia
Chatelperron
chemical equations
Chocholna-Velcice
chroming
cloverleaf antenna
companion ladders
concealed loss and damage claims
conjunctivo-antrostomy
cook utensil
counterdistinguish
crowded with
curanderos
decaying exponential
declarative instruction
deltaic deposit
Deo gratias
discount factoring
door barge
dtac
elaiosphere
electron theodolite
fibre bundle transfer function
fire service department box
gastrilegous
gear inertia
generalized linear phase
get it over with
give heed to
group disequilibrium
gruch
Headteachers
heagarty
heat tolerance coefficient
IMG tag
information handing system
interrecord structure
interrer
iso-electric level
Italian sixth
Kandhura
Knizhovnik
linguoid ripple mark
lob wedges
make money hand over fist
medical gymnastics
melanorosaurids
Menapian
metabisulphite
Moncontour
moniliasis pneumonia
monohydric acid
morning paralyses
multidimensional niche
nationals
nodulus
omnipresent program
one man bridge operation
oxygen-hydrogen recombiner
parafin section
parallel random access machine
phosphatic calculus
polyrhizum
pop-group
push-button yard
resource stock
ridge transform system
rod segment
rotary cutting assembly
S/ON (sign-on)
Schweine-Vasopressin
sector photometer
securities paper
sexual reaction
shoebird
slide prevention
slip nooses
splanchnic cell
surinamiae
time equation
torcaso
total phosphorus
unit in kind
Uruti
valency electrons
waller effect
well-behavedly
Wemale
winevault
wtf
yellow-throated marten skin