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. Several deadly attacks ripped through Baghdad Sunday, killing 1 dozens and injuring more than 60. The attacks came as Iraq's parliament was meeting.

2. In Iran, gunmen posing as police officers waylaid 2 4 cars and killed 12 passengers. Police later killed 6 of the 8 gunmen. All of the victims were civilians 3 and authorities say they don't know why the attack occurred.

3. Thousands are fleeing from Mount Merapi in Indonesia. Thick grey smoke, ash and lava 4 continue to spew from the volcano which has been rumbling 5 for weeks. 14, 000 people live within five miles of the volcano.

4. And Major League Baseball star Barry Bonds has a chance to tie Babe Ruth's record tonight. He needs just one more home run to reach the magic number of 714.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. pose : verb
If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people.
e.g. The team posed as drug dealers 6 to trap the ringleaders.

2. waylay 7 : verb
If someone waylays 8 you, they stop you when you are going somewhere, for example in order to talk to you, to steal something from you, or to attack you.
e.g. The trucks are being waylaid by bandits.

3. spew : verb
When something spews out a substance or when a substance spews from something, the substance flows out quickly in large quantities.
e.g. The volcano spewed out more scorching 9 volcanic 10 ashes, gases and rocks.

4. rumble 11 : verb
If something rumbles 12, it makes a low, continuous noise.
e.g. The sky, swollen 13 like a black bladder, rumbled 14 and crackled.

5. Major League Baseball ------美国职业棒球大联盟

6. tie : verb
If two people tie in a competition or game or if they tie with each other, they have the same number of points or the same degree of success.
e.g. Ronan Rafferty had tied with Frank Nobilo.
= draw



n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
v.拦截,拦路( waylay的过去式和过去分词 )
  • I got waylaid on my way here. 我在来这里的路上遭到了拦路抢劫。
  • He was waylaid by thieves. 他在路上被抢了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
n.熔岩,火山岩
  • The lava flowed down the sides of the volcano.熔岩沿火山坡面涌流而下。
  • His anger spilled out like lava.他的愤怒像火山爆发似的迸发出来。
n.商人( dealer的名词复数 );贩毒者;毒品贩子;发牌者
  • There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
  • The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败,与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
v.埋伏,伏击
  • She lingered outside the theater to waylay him after the show.她在戏院外面徘徊想在演出之后拦住他说话。
  • The trucks are being waylaid by bandits.卡车被强盗拦了下来。
v.拦截,拦路( waylay的第三人称单数 )
adj. 灼热的
  • a scorching, pitiless sun 灼热的骄阳
  • a scorching critique of the government's economic policy 对政府经济政策的严厉批评
adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
n.隆隆声;吵嚷;v.隆隆响;低沉地说
  • I hear the rumble of thunder in the distance.我听到远处雷声隆隆。
  • We could tell from the rumble of the thunder that rain was coming.我们根据雷的轰隆声可断定,天要下雨了。
隆隆声,辘辘声( rumble的名词复数 )
  • If I hear any rumbles I'll let you know. 我要是听到什么风声就告诉你。
  • Three blocks away train rumbles by. 三个街区以外,火车隆隆驶过。
adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
发出隆隆声,发出辘辘声( rumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 轰鸣着缓慢行进; 发现…的真相; 看穿(阴谋)
  • The machine rumbled as it started up. 机器轰鸣着发动起来。
  • Things rapidly became calm, though beneath the surface the argument rumbled on. 事情迅速平静下来了,然而,在这种平静的表面背后争论如隆隆雷声,持续不断。
学英语单词
absorption coefficients
Abyek
access number of network
air speeder
antimicrobial finishing
antimutagenic
associated companies
bablah
Bacchical
bayazid
black heat-proof varnish
blubbed
catactastic structure
congestion loss
corazon aquino
craniopagus occipitalis
creek stopping net
Dactyloscopus
Daphnians
de-Nazification
decarb
diaper plate
dukey-rider
electroweak
ensaumpel
equestrian
exaptational
facies anterior prostatae
false locking
fascia colli profunda
ferrous analysis
fischhoff
fish-eaters
g.i.s
galactic field
give them the finger
guifu dihuang pills
half-deflection method
half-pig
hemagglmination
high purity sulphur
huddlestons
hyperattenuating
ilicfemoral ligament
insect-hole
integrating-sphere photometer
interia type starter
joint committee
Jominy end-quench test
jump a man
KANOXIN
lavish praises on sb
load down
louis-auguste
Lymexylonidae
macro-environment
Mallotus philippinensis
malum senile
maximum penetration load of blade
missa solemnis
Moramide-Intermediate
multi-stage fluidized bed dryer
Māchilpur
New Hampshireman
newest
news material preparation
non-operating interest
output interrupt
ovulator
oxide reliability
parameter adjustment with constraint
phycobionts
pignon
point of subjective equality
primeval galaxy
R. J. Mitchell
retailing industry
retrogressions
roll changing
rolling section of hump
rubidium chromium alum
snudgery
sogabe
starbucks
steam -jet heater
stichopilium rapaeformis
tai yuans
tenuicaule
ternary eutectic alloy
tetraisobutyl-lead
Trillium erectum
uni
unsymmetric attenuator
uremic amaurosis
vacuum absorbing tape buffer
vols
warhursts
wearing textile
webconferences
wooden wheel
x-ray therapy localizer