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. A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis 1 may have spread the disease to passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights from Paris and from Prague earlier this month. We have no suspicion that this patient was highly infectious. In fact the medical evidence would suggest that his potential for transmission would be on the low side, but we know it isn't zero.

2. Authorities are investigating in an apparent murder-suicide in Fort Worth, Texas where a woman and her four daughters were found hanging inside a mobile home closet. The youngest, an 8-month-old girl was found alive.

3. Two whales flounder ing between the Sacramento River and San Francisco Bay have moved several miles closer to the Pacific Ocean. This after two weeks of exposure to fresh water and a host of health problems that have come along with it.

4. And Lindsay Lohan is reportedly back in rehab. TMC.com says Lohan's lawyer drove her to the Promises rehab facility just days after the actress was arrested on suspicion of DUI .

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. tuberculosis: uncountable 结核
A serious infectious disease that affects many parts of your body, especially your lungs. [= TB]

2. murder-suicide:
A murder-suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or while killing 2 himself or herself.

3. flouder: vi. (在水中)挣扎, 困难地往前走
to be unable to move easily because you are in deep water or mud, or cannot see very well

4. DUI: abbr.
driving under the influence (of drugs or alcohol)


n.结核病,肺结核
  • People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
  • Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
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