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. NASA says it will review psychological training after astronaut Lisa Nowak's arrest. She's accused of trying to kill another woman in a romantic dispute. She was charged with attempted murder in Florida. On Wednesday, Nowak returned to Texas from Florida and received a medical assessment 1 at the Johnson Space Center.


2. A US military helicopter has gone down northwest of Baghdad with Sunni insurgents 2 tied to Al-Qaeda claiming responsibility. All seven aboard the Marine 3 Sea Knight 4 Chopper were killed.


3. Another letter bomb in Great Britain. This time at a vehicle licensing 5 agency injuring three. It's the third bomb to injure workers in three days, all at offices tied to traffic regulations.


4. A massive fire destroys warehouses 6 in Knoxville, Tennessee and injures three firefighters. The blaze sent flames and smoke spiraling into the sky over downtown Knoxville, raining down embers.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. spiral: verb
If something spirals or is spiraled somewhere, it grows or moves in a spiral curve.


2. ember: n-count
The ember of a fire are small pieces of wood or coal that remain and glow with heat after the fire has finished burning.



n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
n.骑士,武士;爵士
  • He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
  • A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。
v.批准,许可,颁发执照( license的现在分词 )
  • A large part of state regulation consists of occupational licensing. 大部分州的管理涉及行业的特许批准。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
  • That licensing procedures for projects would move faster. 这样的工程批准程序一定会加快。 来自辞典例句
仓库,货栈( warehouse的名词复数 )
  • The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
  • Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。
学英语单词
active recreation
aculeolata
agenesis
air prcheater
alvernia
amplitude weighting
androstinedione
aniseed oil
apoplexia
auremetine
automatic service requirement
band instrument
benvenutoes
blow-in the furnace
Bollstedt
buffer variable
capital watering
carboatomic ring
carrasquel
chain breaking reaction
charpignat
chatgroups
chiliasts
cobalt blue
coctions
complete checking
cork light trim
dacryadenosscirrhus
dental hatchet
direct fracture
dissertative
drive sb to an early grave
eccentric dipole pole
etch-proof
fairy penguins
fanfaring
forged shaft
frequency of heave
general elections
genus Fulmarus
geochemical evolution
gilmartins
Globba
ground duct
Guiseley
halfsize
hemorrhagic encephalopathy of rat
Hiwolfia
inventory committee
inwardmost
Johnius
landing gear operating mechanism
learned people
liferaft light test
light engine
linear conductor
liparodyspnea
lucerative
naphthasultone
Norton Bay
notebook PC
ohmic pseudo-polarization
olive-drab uniform
one-piece camshaft
otay
panel interface
phalacrocorax pelagicus pelagicus
phylad
physical analysis
platyrhaphe lanyuensis
poetizing
porta intestinale posterior
precomplier
principal axis solution
promise the earth
regeneration by groups
replacement time
rostellum
roylon
sales promotion expense
Samch'ǒn-gun
Schuman's methods
semiology of cartography theory
seraphical
simple balance
smoke exhaust
state-of-the-theoretical-art
sucker
tatbestand
tool belt
topping up pump
trannet
triangular shape
tripleness
umbraculate
uncontrollabilities
universal face plate
uveopapillitis
Valencia orange
Vessel Going Upstream
WFR
without respect of