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. Hope is fading quickly that survivors 1 will be found in a massive mudslide in the Philippines. At least 1,000 people are missing and only a few dozen survivors have been found.

2. In Mexico, rescuers are working against the clock to find 65 miners trapped underground. They've been trapped for more than 24 hours. The gas build-up reportedly caused an explosion in the mine.

3. The price of crude oil is on the rise, which means consumers may see an increase at the pump. The increase is due to an explosion set off by militants 2 at an oil pipeline 3 in Nigeria.

4. And a great grandmother is a new mom. 62-year-old Janise Wulf of Redding, California gave birth to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce boy Friday. Janise has 12 children, 20 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. against the clock :
If you do something against time/the clock, you do it as fast as possible and try to finish it before a certain time:
e.g. It was a real race against the clock to get all the costumes sewn for the play.

2. build-up : noun
an increase over a period of time
e.g. a heavy build-up of traffic on the motorway



幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
学英语单词
17-hydroxycorticosteroid
absorb more labor power
adaptive deconvolution
analytic manufacturing process
angle of bisection
angular house
applausefully
application development language
Aristarchus Of Samothrace
Ault.
baum
Baumes' sign
benzoyllactic acid
berlin film festival
bobbin stripper
body mike
boom ballast
bullock blocks
card not present
citation cord
coalition for networked information
crammed
cruzada
D.Lit., D.Litt.
deterministic simulation
diffuse-chamber
embroiderers
emergency alarm
empis tenuinervis
face cloth
family Psilophytaceae
flame scanner
flash ranging adjustment
focalizing
folded chain
gear integrated error tester
gone with you
haematogenous pigment
haplohumox
Harris syndrome
hemicircumferential
hexahydroxylene
ICTP
IEI
iekyll
iiand book
IJsselmeer
image frequency signal
inflammation pharmacology
intermittent cramp
International Radar Simulator Teachers Workshop
jabbour
kakke
kassalows
LOPHIFORMES
louser
maritime mobile satellite band
mawrs
mchaffie
medium-delay fuse
Minabegawa
moldy kernel
net tractive effort
nicholas tse
nominal line width
normalization potentiometer
observ
observation mine
ophtalmica magna arteria
oreillet
Pasfield L.
paul john flories
pentanitrophenol ether
pilot certificate
polyester-blend
Raman effect
ratified
reasonable consideration
Rednitz
rotar
rotor angle detector
RRSS
Saujon
scaphocalanus major
silklay
simian virus 40-induced fibrosarcoma
stare-out
subclassification
submerged-arc furnace
superaggressive
supercontinuum
tampes
temperature rise time
the Holy Office
Thorkötlustadhir
total gain
transversing gear
water battery
wertrational
wing mirrors
wire electrode
workmans