时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


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1. Firefighters are using water and bulldozers to battle a forest fire in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. It's believed that the blaze was sparked from a military jet dropped a flare 1 on a nearby bombing range.


2. Britain's Prince Harry 2 will not be sent with his unit to Iraq. This according to Britain's top general who cites specific threats to the young royal and risks to his fellow soldiers.


3. The eldest 3 child of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior has died. 51-year-old Yolanda king died late Tuesday in California. Relatives suspect it may have been a heart problem.


4. And it was a close call in northern Texas where a pair of children nearly walked into a lightning bolt. A video camera captured the incident on tape. Watch as the bolt touches down about ten feet from the youngsters.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. bulldozer: n-count
A bulldozer is a large vehicle with a broad metal blade at the front, which is used for knocking down buildings or moving a large amounts of earth.


2. cite: verb
If you cite something, you quote it or mention it, especially as an example or proof of what you are saying.


3. a close call: phrase
If you describe an event as a close shave, a close thing or a close call, you mean that an accident or a disaster very nearly happened.


4. bolt: n-count
A bolt of lightning is a flash of lightning that is seen as a white line in the sky.



v.闪耀,闪烁;n.潮红;突发
  • The match gave a flare.火柴发出闪光。
  • You need not flare up merely because I mentioned your work.你大可不必因为我提到你的工作就动怒。
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
adj.最年长的,最年老的
  • The King's eldest son is the heir to the throne.国王的长子是王位的继承人。
  • The castle and the land are entailed on the eldest son.城堡和土地限定由长子继承。
学英语单词
alveolar-capillary membrane
atomic thermo-capacity
Baiso
bandlimitedness
base circle of cam contour
be on pins and needles
binder soil
blogaholics
bodgies
bottlenose dolphin
brubacher
Bundled service
cadmium compound
cavity field
circle segment
classical wave equation
Clinoril
conditionally exempt
crossotarsus simplex
damnworthy
data quality control monitor
demonstrative determiners
detrusion
Diplacrum caricinum
dis tressed
disodium EDTA
docking bridge
Doma Peaks
draft filly
elmina
empty one's plate
false incontinence
field road
firearm manoeuvre
flash desorption spectroscopy
fllium
ftp explorer
full buoyance
gatophobia
glymph
got up to kill
halpens
having it off
hop the perch
industrial solvent
klas
largest-capacity
late in life
lay emphasis up on
leonne
lime sower
limiting kinetic current
lindernia pyxidaria l.
lubrication oil sump
man load chart
Marienborn
MF
micrometer measuring rod
middle jiao
network army
nitrosoethylurethane
no-scope
odd half-spin representation
orchard cultivator
palisadian disturbance
perchlorovinyl resin
Perdices, Sa.de
Peverson
polyphyll
printer/plotter
recremental
return wall
rowlock bolster
rubber hydrochloride
Russianism
saxagliptin
sea connection
self-cleaning tank
sequence control of boiler ignition system
Siwalik Range/Hills
Slovomir
sodium silicate concrete
somatostatinomas
song of songs (hebrew)
spiny-stemmed
steering propeller
stepwise impulse
the yakuza
thought provoking
Tungufjall
two-level parametric amplifier
typhoid complicated with intestinal perforation
unboastfulness
under-glaze
unsinister
upper ideal
uriniferous tubulus (or renal tubules)
vertico-podalic diameter
Videhan
Vujicic
wrist fracture
zero gear