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. Hawaii was hit hard early Sunday morning with a massive earthquake and several aftershocks. Preliminary measurement showed the quake at a magnitude of 6.5. A town on the west coast of the Big Island was the hardest hit. Power was out across the state as a result. There are unconfirmed reports of injuries.

2. The US continues its pressure on North Korea to stop work on a nuclear weapons program. US Ambassador John Bolton says China should respond by halting all food and energy aids to North Korea.

3. Two leading Republican senators called Sunday for a new strategy in Iraq, saying the situation is getting worse. This comes following a weekend of increased sectarian violence north of Baghdad. A marine 1 and 4 US soldiers died, making this month one of the deadliest for American forces since the 2003 invasion.

4. A Ukrainian baker 2 presented his young bride with an unusual gift - a wedding dress made out of pastries 3. The crafty 4 groom 5 spent two months designing and baking the dress for his future bride, which was made of 2,000 cream-filled pastries

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. measurement : N-COUNT
A measurement is a result, usually expressed in numbers, that you obtain by measuring something.

2. pastry 6 : N-COUNT
Pastry is a food made from flour, fat, and water that is mixed together, rolled flat, and baked in the oven. It is used, for example, for making pies.

3. crafty : ADJ
If you describe someone as crafty, you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, ofter by deceiving people.



adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
n.面包师
  • The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
  • The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
n.面粉制的糕点
  • He gave a dry laugh, then sat down and started on the pastries. 杜新箨说着干笑一声,坐下去就吃点心。 来自子夜部分
  • Mike: So many! I like Xijiang raisins, beef jerky, and local pastries. 麦克:太多了。我最喜欢吃新疆葡萄干、牛肉干和风味点心。
adj.狡猾的,诡诈的
  • He admired the old man for his crafty plan.他敬佩老者的神机妙算。
  • He was an accomplished politician and a crafty autocrat.他是个有造诣的政治家,也是个狡黠的独裁者。
vt.给(马、狗等)梳毛,照料,使...整洁
  • His father was a groom.他父亲曾是个马夫。
  • George was already being groomed for the top job.为承担这份高级工作,乔治已在接受专门的培训。
n.油酥面团,酥皮糕点
  • The cook pricked a few holes in the pastry.厨师在馅饼上戳了几个洞。
  • The pastry crust was always underdone.馅饼的壳皮常常烤得不透。
学英语单词
a gemini
Addtl
aligning microscope
appoximate continuity
Arderone
auxiliary firing
body search
bonibells
bubble dancer
bus duct work
bustiers
cancelled ballot ticket
chip shell
coalign
cotton gatherer
crest angle
cronje
cubango
cut-off interval
cycloses
depilators
dip coating process
distance correcting mechanism of range-finder
DMZ hosts
dryhanded
dryness-moistening and phlegm-resolving prescription
Fergusonite-trihydrate
filament emission
fine and microstructure of ocean
galactaric acid
good-times
granados
half-duplex
hyaline cell
hydroxyphenylarsonic acid
inferior carotid ganglia
integrated sounding system (iss)
interface description language
invisible runners
kakortokite
keep your eye on the ball
Koch's node
larch bark extract
line-sequential color-television
liquid breakdown
liquidation statement
long summer
machine-readable texts
maintenance team
matako
mazurek
mesoporous molecular sieve catalyst
monascus
multirelation
Nea Dimmata
night-creams
Nocardiophage
nomo-
nonerupted deciduous teeth
nonreconstructive inversion
nuplex
Ojo de Laguna
Ollantaitambo
operating losses
palilalias
parturiates
party-man
pashminas
payment of royalty
pendulous axis
phylosopher
pickled
population distribution
position modulation
prediction accuracy
purified helium product cooler
repaneled
ruddys
Runamycin
serve the turn
shatterindex
side draw tray
skew pupils
sputtering deposition
stereoscopic rangefinder
sulfatidate
Szabo
tampulbolon
tautomerizm
telc
tilting prevention device
Timpas
to keep your eyes peeled
unchampioned
Uniloy
universal-joint journal
vaccary
Vsign
water-sop
Whitworth standard screw thread
young Turks