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. This White House report finds poor planning and lack of leadership led to widespread failures in dealing 1 with Hurricane Katrina. The Department of Homeland Security says it's taking steps to prepare for the 2006 hurricane season.

2. There's fear civil war will break out in Iraq following the attack yesterday on a sacred Shiite shrine 2. No one's claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on Sunni extremist groups. In the past two days, at least 111 people have died, and nearly 175 Sunni mosques 3 have been attacked.

3. Rescuers are digging through rubble 4 searching for signs of life after the snow-covered roof of a Moscow market collapsed 5. Emergency officials say at least 52 people were killed and 32 were injured.

4. A manhunt is underway in England for an armed gang who posed as police officers to pull off one of the biggest robberies in that country's history. The robbers allegedly kidnapped the bank manager, then tied up 15 employees at a cash center while they stole up to 50 million pounds or 87 million dollars. No one was hurt.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. rubble : noun [U]
the piles of broken stone and bricks, etc. that are left when a building falls down or is destroyed:
e.g. The bomb reduced the house to rubble.

2. manhunt : noun [C]
an organized search for a person, especially a criminal:
e.g. The police have launched a manhunt after the body of a six-year-old boy was found last night.

3. pull off : phrasal verb [M] INFORMAL
to succeed in doing something difficult or unexpected:
e.g. The central bank has pulled off one of the biggest financial rescues of recent years.



n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
n.圣地,神龛,庙;v.将...置于神龛内,把...奉为神圣
  • The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
  • They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
清真寺; 伊斯兰教寺院,清真寺; 清真寺,伊斯兰教寺院( mosque的名词复数 )
  • Why make us believe that this tunnel runs underneath the mosques? 为什么要让我们相信这条隧洞是在清真寺下?
  • The city's three biggest mosques, long fallen into disrepair, have been renovated. 城里最大的三座清真寺,过去年久失修,现在已经修复。
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
学英语单词
abdominal musculature deficiency syndrome
accrual-baseds
aerial spur box
ahead one
Aldan
Angelica tenuissima
apparent coefficient
Axial Flow Pumps
balance to surplus
barristers
berwick
bind about/around/round
black elderberry
Bulbophyllum rubrolabellum
calyptriform
camelhairs
categorical forecasting
cavayes
Centre, Region
certificated stock
chrysophytas
complex cobordism group
cord belt
cuentas
cyclical inflation
dark-bluest
double insurance policy
droop of a set
Duvalierville
export edition
F1 layer
fauvisms
follow a course
forspill
free Internet service
gradient pegs
Guérou
happed
high-temperature pump
Huguier's sinus
information transmission
islet-activating proteinism
Jack. & L.
land laws
lobenstein
M-component
Malcolm Lowry
marzell
metering rod
metopantron
millet rains
non-flagrant delict
non-single-crystal substance
normales
Nāchna
ouge
parachute accident
pediculicidal
people pleasers
platycephalia
pottery bracket with support
private corporations
Pygocaulia
qana
quasi rent
quercetums
r-va
Reichert-Meissl value
requins
Romunde
rounded number
ruddy
salt-of-the-earth
sawv
sclates
seasicker
skipworth
solution of calculus
special effects
splayed scarf
spring hare
St-Genis-de-Saintange
stock balls
sucker punching
symptomatic fever
Tandy
thermal-radiating material
thoracic duct cannulation
thyroid stimulating test
Togliatti, Plamiro
travel(l)ing case
trunk group
Tuber parietale
twoheaded
underpowered
unequilibrated
unwinding equipment
Victoria I.
whiffled
wrapped these up
xanthocanace magna
Zedolac