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. President Bush is slated 1 to address the nation at 9 pm Eastern time Wednesday. On the agenda, his new approach for the war in Iraq which will reportedly include a surge of 20,000 US troops in the war-torn country.


2. Officials are probing the source of a mysterious gas-like odor wafting 3 to the streets of Manhattan. Despite temporary transit 4 disruptions and building evacuations, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is confident the air is safe to breathe.


3. Fierce 150-mile-per-hour winds whipped up fallen snow along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains creating near blizzard-like conditions and forcing the shutdown of various schools and roads.


4. And a group of researchers says it has discovered stem cells in the amniotic fluid of pregnant women. The find will allow scientists to sidestep the controversy 5 over destroying embryos 6 for research.


 


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. be slated to : PHR
If something is slated to happen, it is planned to happen at a particular time or on a particular occasion.


2. waft 2 : V-ERG
If sounds or smells waft through the air, or if something such as a light wind wafts 7 them, they move gently through the air.


3. whip up : PHR-V
If a force such as the wind whips up dust or water, it makes it rise up.
...clouds of smoke and sand whipped up by a strong wind.


4. amniotic fluid : N
The fluid within the amnion(羊膜)that surrounds the fetus 8 and protects it from injury.



用石板瓦盖( slate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。
  • Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。
v.飘浮,飘荡;n.一股;一阵微风;飘荡
  • The bubble maker is like a sword that you waft in the air.吹出泡泡的东西就像你在空中挥舞的一把剑。
  • When she just about fall over,a waft of fragrance makes her stop.在她差点跌倒时,一股幽香让她停下脚步。
v.吹送,飘送,(使)浮动( waft的现在分词 )
  • But that gentle fragrance was clearly wafting from the window. 但那股淡淡的香气,却分明是从母亲的窗户溢出的。 来自互联网
  • The picture-like XueGuo, wafting dense flavor of Japan, gives us a kind of artistic enjoyment. 画一般的雪国,飘溢着浓郁的日本风情,给人以美的享受。 来自互联网
n.经过,运输;vt.穿越,旋转;vi.越过
  • His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
  • The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
n.争论,辩论,争吵
  • That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
  • We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
n.晶胚;胚,胚胎( embryo的名词复数 )
  • Somatic cells of angiosperms enter a regenerative phase and behave like embryos. 被子植物体细胞进入一个生殖阶段,而且其行为象胚。 来自辞典例句
  • Evolution can explain why human embryos look like gilled fishes. 进化论能够解释为什么人类的胚胎看起来象除去了内脏的鱼一样。 来自辞典例句
n.空中飘来的气味,一阵气味( waft的名词复数 );摇转风扇v.吹送,飘送,(使)浮动( waft的第三人称单数 )
  • A breeze wafts the sweet smell of roses. 微风吹来了玫瑰花的芬芳(香味)。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • A breeze wafts the smell of roses. 微风吹送玫瑰花香气。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.胎,胎儿
  • In the fetus,blood cells are formed in different sites at different ages.胎儿的血细胞在不同时期生成在不同的部位。
  • No one knows why a fetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system. 没有人知道为什么母亲的免疫系统不会自动排斥胎儿。
学英语单词
Agapetes macrophylla
air-jet snow remover
ambient findability
Aquavite
arbon (argonne boiling reactor experiment)
arrester discharge capacity
automatic advice of duration
b-r
Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory
barothermometer
behavioured
bend in the channel
Bhadaure
bonus point
borchgrevinks
bull-leapings
buyers over
canon regular
cycadophytinas
dappler
device-version code page
dextrose
drift-sand
dysmorphisms
electronic distance meters
eudoxus
exergic
falkenstenite
flexural measurement
forepieces
gastrodidymus
Geostar Corp.
gyroscale
haberdashery store
hand back
hang on something
Hayflick limit
helanders
helly
higher-productivity
hyah
hyngel
idiot's lantern
immediately before
interest included
interior focusing
kello
laser diodes
level of orders
Level term insurance
light metals industry
liquid-flow counter
long-bone
marine mammal
median price
Merevale shales
michigan l.
microrads
mining method for dipping medium thick orebody
monethe
murska
nanoripple
networked computer
nonlifers
nymphicula yoshiyasui
obscurable
onna day? (japan)
overhead projection
passenger rated traffic
Peschiera del Garda
Peterstown
PIBKAC
porous filter plate
preequilibrium
primary adenopathy
pteris pellucidifolia
Ralfsia expansa
re-melt
return a prisoner guilty
robert edward lees
rotary force
sanitary outfit
scleroscope
Scottification
source preparation
St-Barthélemy-d'Agenais
straightener
surrender monkey
thrombendarteriectomy
triacontylene
trial by television
trombidiiasis
unconscientiously
veneer peeling machine
water-cooled turbogenerator
wet-way analysis
white-on-white
wire rod concave
Xay
Yanuf
yoast
zero torque pitch