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. After weeks of wildfires, the first tropical storm of the season is welcome news for fire crews in Florida and Georgia. Andrea, the first named storm of the year is spinning off the coast. Fire crews hope rain from the storm will help them battle the wildfire raging along the state's border.


2. The US attorney general faced another round of tough testimony 1 on Capitol Hill today. The House Judiciary Committee questioned Alberto Gonzales about the role the White House played in the firing of US attorneys.


3. Police with guns drawn 2 performed a room-to-room search at a high school in Boulder 3, Colorado. A cook reported seeing two men dressed in camouflage 4 inside the building just before classes started Thursday morning. As a precaution, school was cancelled for the day.


4. A popular infant carrier is being recalled, the Evenflo Embrace infant car seat carrier. Authorities say the seat can unexpectedly release and has injured 160 children.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. spin: verb
If something spins, it turns quickly around a central point.


2. rage: verb
You say that something powerful or unpleasant rages when it continues with great force or violence.


3. camouflage: n-uncount
Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.


 



n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
n.巨砾;卵石,圆石
  • We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲,把大石头搬开了。
  • He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。
n./v.掩饰,伪装
  • The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage.北极熊身上的白色的浓密软毛是一种天然的伪装。
  • The animal's markings provide effective camouflage.这种动物身上的斑纹是很有效的伪装。
学英语单词
accommodation trains
Ala-Cort
Alpen-Na
amenson
angulus acromialis scapulae
APACHE accelerator
asile
aspersest
average half life
axial-type internal cooling
babel quartz
base bias circuit
be packed with
belepered
bullingdon
burn ... bridges
bustle with
capillary chemistry
carberies
carbonatite alonite
chronological ordering
cilella
city and town land use tax
Clarke's column
collection of price
crude oil paraffinic
cushags
cyberchat
danny boy
diatomine
direct-current converter
disintergration
distance of visual line
embedded figure test (eft)
engineer scale
expense of administration
exsculptus
family punicaceaes
fertile branch
first cutting for regeneration
flourisher
foreign exchange gain
genus Paradoxurus
greyhound bus
greyish
hay harvest
heckelphone
hemiterpene
hyper-nationalism
insoluble resins
JFCC-ISR
Job's post
Khutsuri
King-Armstrong(units)
kinhin
knobbier
lead-splash condenser
length of saw blade
leons
lewinsville
Lionbridge
Medåker
mesmerizee
multipication rate
network backbone
NPLCA
Nucleus ventralis posterior
oiltightness
panel cointegration
particular strain
patrilocality
pelvic canal
poet shirt
precinct
pump rood
re-mapped
rebound hardometer
retarding reservoir
reverse multiple
revitz
ribgrasses
Samit, Koh
Sattahip
saxists
short-circuits
silica gel plate
sitfast
solid line
spring-head
squinting construction
staphylococcus hyicus
suicide Tuesdays
terrestrial effect
Terromontes, Pampa de los
theater navy command
thermal refractive index coefficient
Thicymetin
Thruston
unconfidents
waste money
worldly-wiseness
zirconium-95