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
allolimy
Alpha-fatoprotein
anatomical morphology
anisogynous
as happy as the day is long
atropous
becillemia
bio-phylline
bolt rope
calcium meconate
ceiling plastering
cephality
Clairette, Pte.
concave upward
contract of international sale of goods
diamidino-phenyl-indole
diode vacuum tube
disjunct motion
E.S.P.
EDTN
electronic field book
employee-owned enterprise
empower sb to do sth
enamel stock
ENDC
Entomophthorales
f.o.m.
fasteners
fenbutrazate
fibrillogenesis
functional period
fur-trapper
Gann Angles
gas exchange area
geometric element
giantizes
giving the boot
glimpses of the truth
Hamletism
hand-hot
haulage horizon
holnes
hsas
iliac arteries
injection band spreading
jet-a
joint axis
Kerbau, Tg.
last-birthday
love boat
manually operated trackball
manufacturing - isic
mesocortical
method of proof
microwave moisture meter
mosis
msas
multi-jet element
multiple unit socket
myxoma lipomatodes
n-plants
ordinary phosphorus
oropogon formosanus
packed like sardines
pesavento
plexippus incognitus
polyethylene dielectric
pre-dose
prison riot
red-backed mouse
resonance transformator
rotor punching
rottor
Saintsbury
sarah kemble siddonss
sealing arrangement
secular changes
selection switch
shutoff horsepower
sinus bradycardia
snow-bunting
solidification region
Sphagneticola trilobata
spidercancer
spinescences
sterilized pharmaceutics
strake below sheer strake
stress coefficient of optical effect
supersells
surety obligation
swampcypress
swiss-ball
sycamore fig ficus sycamorus
target offset
teledynamometer
the smoke
Thompson Point
through fastening
unupright
wrapper
written deposition
X to the Z