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. Rev 1. Jerry Falwell has died. He was found unconscious in his office at Liberty University in Virginia. The television evangelist became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He also founded Liberty and served as its president. Jerry Falwell was 73.


2. Army officials in Iraq say the four U.S. soldiers killed in a weekend ambush 2 and the three who remain missing were from the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum in New York. The Pentagon says terrorists may have the missing soldiers.


3. Police in Portugal investigating the disappearance 3 of a British girl have released a suspect they had questioned. Officials say there wasn't enough evidence to file charges. The 4-year-old disappeared from her hotel. Some notable celebrities 4 are appealing for help in finding the girl.


4. A bear and her cub 5 are recovering after being rescued from Florida wildfires. Veterinarians at the University of Florida treated burns on the bear's paws. Her cub was rehydrated and is doing fine. The mother and cub could eventually be returned to the wild.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. evangelist: n-count
An evangelist is a person who travels from place to place in order to try to convert people to Christianity.


2. Fort Drum
Fort Drum is a census-designated place and U.S. Army military reservation in Jefferson County, New York, United States. It is home to the 10th Mountain Division


3. paw: n-count
The paws of an animal such as a cat, dog or bear are its feet, which have claws for gripping things and soft pads for walking on.



v.发动机旋转,加快速度
  • It's his job to rev up the audience before the show starts.他要负责在表演开始前鼓动观众的热情。
  • Don't rev the engine so hard.别让发动机转得太快。
n.埋伏(地点);伏兵;v.埋伏;伏击
  • Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
  • Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
n.幼兽,年轻无经验的人
  • The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。
  • The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。
学英语单词
abhorring
acquired cleftpalate
advertence
aggrege
approximate true elongation percentage
aural detector
auto cutter
Berilo
bootlegs
bresnahan
capitalised value
chromises
clobedolum
cold atmospheric leaching
conjugata
conservativeness
container freight station to door
contextual protection
contract for carriage
copperas
cost-per-action
Crocethia
cryptanthus zonatus
cylindrical auger
Cymothoidae
deglutition centre
dilute phase roasting
disapprovest
discors
divergence
duking
echo-signal
electric resistance thermometer
endotransglycosylases
flash-over relay
garment container
hawksworth
hierarchical interrupt
hill-and-dale
Horheim
host unreachable
Indochinese, Indo-Chinese
inertially balanced stabilized platform
interchange circuits
kot
kuessel
Le Massegros
letter bundling machine
memory attribute list
micrometeoritic
MO-MLV
moroccoes
Mututu
naphthalic aicd
national grid compang
numbered unit
pain phosphorus
pallidotomies
parental rights and duties
partes subcutanea
payload deployment and retrieval system
petunia
platanthera chloranthas
platypelloid
porfiry
propagules
quenching crack
remi inferior ossis ischii
repair truck
Rhododendron aganniphum
rickson
scandium oxalate
sense of worth
servo surface encoding
set priorities
sidles
specification of quality
state guarantee
stony iron-meteorite
sulfuric acid monohydrate
sweet meat
tar-pot
ternity
transmitter distortion
trust fund bureau
two sample t-test
U Thant
unassailableness
undefined length record
under water concrete
valeriane
ventresca
vernier theodolite
Von Hippel-Lindau disease
way to go
weaponizing
weigelias
weightiest
wrast
yanagisawa
yowlings
zero check