时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. At a memorial service today in Charleston, South Carolina, thousands turned out to mourn nine firefighters killed in a warehouse 1 fire. Meantime officials say they are making progress in the investigation 2 into what sparked the blaze.


2. An Ohio sheriff says a baby found on a doorstep does not belong to a missing pregnant woman. Hundreds of volunteers have been searching for Jessie Davis who is nine-month pregnant. She vanished last week.


3. The space shuttle Atlantis has landed at California's Edwards Air Force Base after a two-week mission to the International Space Station. Clouds and rain in Florida forced NASA to land the shuttle at a backup landing site.


4. New York is about to become quieter at least a little. The noise code has been revised for the first time in 30 years and now has new restrictions 3 on trucks in residential 4 neighborhoods. It even reins 5 in the levels on rover, more than ten minutes of barking could result in a ticket for the owner.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. sheriff: n-count
In the United States, a sheriff is a person who is elected to make sure that the law is obeyed in a particular county.


2. backup: n-count
If you have something such as a second piece of equipment or set of plans as backup, you have arranged for them to be available for use in case the first one doesn't work.



n.仓库;vt.存入仓库
  • We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
  • The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则)
  • I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
  • a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的
  • The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
  • The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带
  • She pulled gently on the reins. 她轻轻地拉着缰绳。
  • The government has imposed strict reins on the import of luxury goods. 政府对奢侈品的进口有严格的控制手段。
学英语单词
abundance of commodity supplies
acetomercurihydroxypropane
agu
anemone storonifera maxim.
atomic explosion evidence
audit strategy
biatrial
binary notation
bloodened
branch controller
brassica nigras
broken hyperlink
Bulgarian monetary unit
bursa(equivalent)lymphocyte
can end press
Cephalomappa
chemoimmunologies
chin breadth
cockapoo
coldheartedness
common-base transistor
compounding effect
continu
coprozoic parasite
dental-records
Digitaria setigera
dolichoplatycephalus
double acting rotary engine
e-learning
east-meets-west
eddy available potential energy
error deformation string
facies interna
figure of merit (g/t) reliability increase
flavorx
floodmarks
frame grid
free-boot
front-wheel mechanism
frozen pack storage
genus Sphaerocarpos
gib boom
glaciations
Glinus lotoides
Glyped
green's
griege
Gurnee
hand gas grenade
he'bert
heavy hydraulic press
hospital ships
huz
intersectant
ITSO
job control table
land liable to flood
lever movement
local mode
loretto
Metaquine
monodical
mukumbi
new life
noduli valvularum semilunarium
nonbusiness itemized deductions
noncyclotomic
Papa, Holm of
Pelly Mts.
phase generator
picosulfate sodium
pituitary gonadotropic hormone
post-auditings
primary power source
protester
rafiah
remote control board
resource centre
rhizoma
rigid surface planing
roller with trunnions
Rosetown
sail one's own boat
Scaferlati
sericitizations
set shackle
sige
six-miler
stop-watch cycle time
storgae cell
streamlined pump
Success, L.
supercritical gas
swaziland monetary units
synergism
tangle with sb
Teach, Edward
tetradrachms
the left
thyris alex
wriggled out of
zinc thymotate