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. Ernesto is coming ashore 1 in Florida. Forecasters warn the storm could bring 15 inches of rain. Residents have spent the day stocking up on food, gas and other supplies.

2. On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush is telling the people of New Orleans that the government fell short of its responsibilities. The president says if there's a next time, Washington will deliver what he calls a better, more effective response.

3. There is new video of the crash site of the Kentucky Comair flight that went down shortly after takeoff Sunday. Federal officials are looking at data from flight recorders, the control tower and evidence from the crash scene.

4. Fifty thousand dollars in cash, laptop computers and wig 2s were found in the car of polygamous leader Warren Jeffs. Jeffs had been on the FBI's most wanted list. He's facing sexual misconduct charges in Utah and Arizona where he allegedly arranged for older men to marry underage girls.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. fall short of : phrase
Prove inadequate 4 or insufficient 5. For example, His skills fell short of the required standard.

2. wig : n-count
A wig is a covering of false hair which you wear on your head, for example because you have little hair of your own or because you want to cover up your own hair.

3. polygamous : adj
In a polygamous society, people can be legally married to more than one person at the same time. A polygamous person, especially a man, is married to more than one person.



adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
n.假发
  • The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
  • He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。
n.假发,法官帽( wig的名词复数 )
  • They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
  • Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克,因为我们需要更多的假发,而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白
adj.(for,to)不充足的,不适当的
  • The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
  • She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
adj.(for,of)不足的,不够的
  • There was insufficient evidence to convict him.没有足够证据给他定罪。
  • In their day scientific knowledge was insufficient to settle the matter.在他们的时代,科学知识还不能足以解决这些问题。
学英语单词
additional constant
alkali resistant cement concrete flooring
anal plate
annealing deposit
array module
Ascaridoidea
axial-force
band-pass network
battery cells
Bekok
belt-type permanentmagnet separator
big-wig
black-out lamp
Blackstripe
books sort
brassish
Burgers vector
bushtits
capitalist democratization
carboxylesterase
clarence major
corah
counter insurgent
cutter reel
deducibility
disconsolate
disreputableness
double-layer interconnection
egg-laying spawning season
encarsia guadeloupae
Euproctis pseudoconsphersa
external shock diffusers
extesticulate
extrajection
geodesic latitude
give cause for
golden yearss
hail observing network
have a weak stomach
headgear
in-process
internal reticular apparatus
jisei
Kazumba
lagomorphic
lampad
leaf-mimicking fish
left avertence
life-cycles
line frequency generator
live roll
local dose rate
lorch
machine tool drive
mast fittings
moon pool
Mutnaya, Bukhta
nilpotent algebraic group
nitrogen carriers
non-producing well
nonfilling
nonsyndromic
opsoclonus
orange tips
orianna
paradoxicality
PCSP
phantom line
phomopsis morearum
piezoelectrometer
plasnosome
popular goods
preprinted insert
profile cavitation
pull switch
rambunctions
red-heeled
rose-colored pastors
sadkers
Saxifraga longshengensis
semipermeable membrance
side rafter
side window frame
single-entry bookkeeping
snap magnet
soup spoon
step-variable capacity cost
take the wraps off
tekkamaki
test gas
to refer
trestle-table
trimachy
true rolling bit
vampirologist
vandura
wage-packets
Walker Air Force Base
wannish
WTV
xeroxer