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. The sole survivor 1 of the Sago Mine tragedy, Randy McCloy, released a letter detailing the last hours of the 12 miners who did not make it out. In the letter, McCloy talked about trying to signal their location to rescuers with a sledgehammer, sharing air tanks and finally drifting off to sleep.

2. A Senate committee says FEMA needs to be rebuilt from scratch. The report comes just a month before hurricane season begins, and says bad leadership and inadequate 2 funding have left FEMA beyond repair.

3. The jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial took a break Thursday after 16 hours of deliberations because one of them is sick. The jury is trying to decide if Moussaoui will be sentenced to death or receive life in prison for his role in the 9/11 attacks.

4. If you’ve got time, read the decision by the British judge who heard the Da Vinci Code copyright trial of author Dan Brown. He apparently 3 inserted his own code into the judgement. Certain random 4 letters are scattered 5 in bold italics throughout the ruling. The judge is confirming that he left a code in the ruling.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. sledgehammer : n-count
A sledgehammer is a large, heavy hammer with a long handle, used for breaking up rocks and concrete.

2. drift off to : phrasal verb
If you drift off to sleep, you gradually fall asleep.
e.g. It was only when he finally drifted off to sleep that the headaches eased.

3. insert : verb
If you insert an object into something, you put the object inside it.
e.g. He took a small key from his pocket and slowly inserted it into the lock...

4. bold : n-uncount
Bold is print which is thicker and looks blacker than ordinary printed letters.
e.g. Use bold type for headings and bullet points for noteworthy achievements.

5. italic : adj
Italic letters slope to the right.
e.g. She addressed them by hand in her beautiful italic script.
italics : n-plural
Italics are letters which slope to the right. Italics are often used to emphasize a particular word or sentence



n.生存者,残存者,幸存者
  • The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
  • There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
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。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
adj.随机的;任意的;n.偶然的(或随便的)行动
  • The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
学英语单词
2-CHLOROBENZYLAMINE
abandonate
allowable impact load
amphibianlike
barbey
barbier
benzisoxazoles
better-tasting
BKdusty pink
booking commission
bruderrat
butt joint welder
cardiac ventricle
caribbean subregion
catarrhal dyspepsia
christenly
circular flow of economy
class lists
clientela
contracted domain
Corypha
cronak method
cryptophialoidea secunda
deed registration fee
deflowereth
delay in payment
diogenes tumidus
dipping structure
dissidently
eastermost
endoscopic cold light source
ethynylbenzyl carbamate
eutelolecithal
exergonic
false-zero test
five-channel scanning radiometer
frost hygrometer
fug us
gel swelling
gingival border
hoale
i-deled
ice-shelves
icodextrin
incremental speed governing droop
insaner
internal spermatic veins
Ipililo
Johnstonebridge
joint operating procedure
ketoic
legal argument
life-holy
liquid scintillator detector
list-directed input/output statement
litmouse
Luconge
lynch-pins
mellow-soil plow
mentorlike
MEV, MeV, Mev, mev
myelomeningitis
Napicladium asteroma
nebularia contracta
neutron superfluidity
Nittendorf
ole-db
palpebral edema of the newborn
Penguin Beach
percentage of twist shrinkage
petrolisthes obtusifrons
primary cutaneous cryptococcosis
pronounces
propulsion parameter
Prügy
radioactive cemetery
radiomuscular
refollows
registry offices
relay return spring
roll-off area
RTTIs
sampling apparatus scattering area
so also do
space mark
spring swench
steinwachs
stokes' law of settling
tactical command ship
tangent-cone method
target domain
taxi pattern
thiosemicarbazone isonicotinaldehyde
track servo mechanism
trash boom
triaster egg
triple-digit
upright engine
video envelope
wash place
wideband coating
XIPHOSTOMIDAE