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
Actinoscirpus
Actinothecaceae
aerocannon
alness r.
apsidal surface
aqueous caustic
automatic manual station
Bashkirians
Beuerberg
Bine-el-Ouidane
Biograd
Boltongate
Calanthe graciliflora
Caliciviridae
cathode flame
chored
collector area
color pyramid
coloured gold
come in contact with
common pathway
contra arithmetic series
count wheel striking mechanism
crackable
cubic kilometre
Dalwad
desaxe
diskspace
double dictionary
drawstring bag
energy diagram
enripens
Faverges
fimbristylis autumnalis roem et schult
five o'clock
flenoury
French inhaling
fridrich
Graecicize
gravity purity
guide vane assembly
gyroscopic angular deviation detector
hatchety
higher order predicate calculus
if you'll pardon the expression
in order for something to happen
inter-connectednesses
international standard bibliography
iron(ii) azide
jar proof
kletter
lateral-line organ
light radiation sensor
matzahs
messengership
migrating balloon
mogroester
Montanha
Mother's Night
Motier
no delivery attempted
north atlantic treaties
notched underlated preheater
on weekdays
oscillation impulse
outside mix nozzle
overhelm
oxypropionic acid
paper industry
phenolic glycoside
phymatosorum membranifolium
picket-fence
random connection
reabsorbed cost
redeemed
redimere
reversalability
Rioja,rioja
saxo grammaticuss
schnier
servomechanism compensation
shortsheeted
side wall frame
single-sided magnetically linear motor
soap cutting machine
Sotacor
sound title to land
spinnabler
sports lottery
state court
submirrors
summer term
supertwists
teasings
thermal coil
tricalcium silicate
type selection
underteaches
utets
vaporizing combustion chamber
vitriolating
zonograms