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. Forty-nine people died when a Comair jet crashed just after take-off in Lexington, Kentucky. Only one person, the first officer, survived. Investigators 1 are looking into whether the plane had taken off on a wrong runway.

2. Ernesto was a hurricane and Florida could be in its path. The storm is over Haiti and could impact South Florida Tuesday. Officials are telling visitors in the Florida Keys to leave now.

3. The storm could have an impact on the shuttle launch. Atlantis is scheduled to lift off Tuesday. The biggest concern is whether the launch pad was damaged by a lightning strike. But with a hurricane on the horizon, shuttle managers could scrap 2 the launch altogether. NASA will make its decision Sunday night.

4. A happy reunion for two Fox newsmen kidnapped in Gaza two weeks ago and released this morning. Reporter Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig say they were forced at gunpoint to make statements, but they had praise for the Palestinian people.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. first officer : n-count
In commercial aviation, the first officer is the second pilot of an aircraft.

2. lift off : phrasal verb
When an aircraft or rocket lifts off, it leaves the ground and rises into the air.

3. launch pad : n-count
A launch pad or launching pad is a platform from which rockets, missiles, or satellites are launched.

4. on the horizon : phrasal
If something is on the horizon, it is almost certainly going to happen or be done quite soon.

5. at gunpoint : phrase
If you are held at gunpoint, someone is threatening to shoot and kill you if you do not obey them



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》
n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
学英语单词
acid-carbonate
al qahirah (cairo)
Alemli
angeloylfuranofukinol
backstairs intrigue
barterable
benippled
beweapons
bus insurance
charabanc
childhood aphasia
CLHE
cold food pantry
colocalisation
common boneset
common licence
corrupcion
cross countries
cross-country skiing
crystal vessel
cupric fluoride
Diksonskiy Rayon
distributing valve board
double-beam oscillograph
drawbeam
dry foot
EAggEC
electroelute
endodermoreaction
enjoyee
eschewal
extension reflex
ezekiass
filter expresser
Flying Scotsman
gadolinia
genus sennas
gergon
get sth out
good natures
Harmonized Description Coding System
highwater marking
hirings
hot-bath quench aging
i was wondering
lame-ducks
laughed my ass off
liquid monomer plastic
maids
Manx cat
melanoderma toxica
Microzamia
modern cybernetics
mountain phlox
negative going
nonlead
octopodes
papillary epithelioma
perichareia
periodic merit rating
phenylmercuric hydroxide
place-brick
Placido's disk
PNID
polydystrophic
pyrometer lamp
radionavigation tailbuoy
robbo
rock craft
rossmen
scrapped vessel
scutle
secondary mouth
see no evil
severe burn
shaw
single-end user
slobbers
small particle contamination
smp (scanning microscope photometer)
son vertex
specialized capital goods
spywares
start-finish
Stoby
stream of people
sulfidize
sun yat - sen university
test ring
tetragnatha ceylonica
thermal conversion
thiazidelike
tonify the kidney to arrest spontaneous emission
toralizumab
tuberculosis of scrotum
tuberculous bacillemia
unemolumented
upper middle class
vitrics
Weston standard cadmium cell
what's your problem
wine-shipper