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. Tornados 1 tore across eastern New Mexico overnight destroying homes and buildings. Dozens of people were injured. The National Weather Service says the twisters came one right after the other.


2. The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to impose sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. The sanctions include banning Iranian arms exports and freezing the assets of people and originations involved in that country's nuclear and missile programs.


3. The Iranian military says 15 British detainees have confessed to entering Iranian waters illegally. The sailors and marines were seized yesterday while searching for smugglers off the coast of Iraq. Britain says the 15 did not stray into Iranian waters and is demanding their safe return.


4. Three New Jersey 2 teens are basking 4 in the limelight just days after they stopped a runaway 5 school bus. The driver suffered a seizure 6 while driving students to school Thursday morning. The teens jumped into the driver seat and swerved 8 out of the way of oncoming traffic before bringing the bus to a safe stop.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. bask 3: verb
If you bask in someone's approval, favor, or admiration 9, you greatly enjoy their positive reaction towards you.


2. limelight: n-uncount
If someone is in the limelight, a lot of attention is being paid to them, because they are famous or because they have done something very unusual or exciting.


3. seizure: n-count
If someone has a seizure, they have a sudden violent attack of an illness, especially one that affects their hearts or brain.


4. swerve 7: verb
If a vehicle or other moving thing swerves 10, it suddenly changes direction, often in order to avoid hitting something.



n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
  • They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
vt.取暖,晒太阳,沐浴于
  • Turtles like to bask in the sun.海龟喜欢曝于阳光中。
  • In winter afternoons,he likes to bask in the sun in his courtyard.冬日的午后,他喜欢坐在院子晒太阳。
v.晒太阳,取暖( bask的现在分词 );对…感到乐趣;因他人的功绩而出名;仰仗…的余泽
  • We sat basking in the warm sunshine. 我们坐着享受温暖的阳光。
  • A colony of seals lay basking in the sun. 一群海豹躺着晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.逃走的人,逃亡,亡命者;adj.逃亡的,逃走的
  • The police have not found the runaway to date.警察迄今没抓到逃犯。
  • He was praised for bringing up the runaway horse.他勒住了脱缰之马受到了表扬。
n.没收;占有;抵押
  • The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
  • The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。
v.突然转向,背离;n.转向,弯曲,背离
  • Nothing will swerve him from his aims.什么也不能使他改变目标。
  • Her car swerved off the road into a 6ft high brick wall.她的车突然转向冲出了马路,撞向6英尺高的一面砖墙。
v.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She swerved sharply to avoid a cyclist. 她猛地急转弯,以躲开一个骑自行车的人。
  • The driver has swerved on a sudden to avoid a file of geese. 为了躲避一队鹅,司机突然来个急转弯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕
  • He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
  • We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。
n.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的名词复数 )v.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的第三人称单数 )
  • The road swerves to the right. 道路向右转弯。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • At the last moment, Nina swerves and slams into a parked car. 在最后关头,尼娜突然转弯,将车猛烈撞入一辆停着的车中。 来自互联网
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acculturational
Ahok
air servicer
air tube connector
allylisulfocarbamide
Alyssum lenense
annealing kiln
anti-detonant
arggh
bainitic
bank eligible bonds
birdsat
body persecution
butter knife
chin implant
cotton ball cloud
crankcase mayonnaise
crime of affray
crow pram
current collecting equipment with liquid metal
dilettanteish
Distoma hepaticum
DJC
drawing-in machine
elingued
epidihydrocholesterin
even zonal harmonics
exclusive-NOR gate
Fenmetrazin
fetichises
flowind
galula
gavots
glyco-nucleoprotein
group technology code
head-emptier
heat sensimeter
hyperbolic variational inequation
hypersensitive angiitis
impact matrix
Inner Manchuria
inscription on a tablet
interactive placement
Irurita
keesee
Kraynovka
lateral distal mandibular
layettes
layzer
ligmentum popliteum arcuatum
limits of audition
loflucarban
M.Ap.L.
metzincins
minimum-size
Nam Ha
nominal pressure rating
one-block
package management system
people's
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platinum resistance thermometry
Platt.
plot a distance
plumb perpendicular
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premature eruption of tooth
prison gangs
psychosociology
puts together
rectalox glaberi
respiratory environment
restored nonevent
Roulans
Samaritan Pentateuch
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shipments sent
sill splicing
simple analytic function
somniferum
sound source room
spider-web antenna
spot radiation source
sunshine pill
Swainsona salsula
Syncalathium disciforme
tapman
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tensor geometry
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to bake
toll communication network
tracer compound
travelblogs
ultrapure material
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use exertions
vaginal discharges
Veterans Affairs
vittore carpaccio
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