时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年6月


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1. Crews in Iowa have been ordered to abandon a half-mile-long wall of dirt and sandbags because they're worried it's about to break. The wall was built after the Des Moines River punched a 100-foot wide hole in a levee allowing water to pour into a portion of downtown.

2. Washington D.C. is remembering longtime newsman Tim Russert. At the Newseum exhibits highlight the political analyst 1. And at NBC, flowers serve as a makeshift memorial for the network's bureau chief. Russert died of a heart attack yesterday. He was 58.


3. It's been less than a month since the U.S. declared polar bears a threatened species. But now the Bush administration's giving seven oil companies permission to potentially harm them while looking for oil and natural gas. The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations providing legal protection.


4. NASA is congratulating the space shuttle crew on a 'beautiful landing.' Discovery glided 3 back to Earth after a 14-day trip that NASA says(插入语) was about as smooth as it gets. The shuttle delivered a billion-dollar science lab to the International Space Station.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.punch [transitive]v.


to make a hole in something, using a metal tool or other sharp object


2.exhibit [countable] n.
something, for example a painting, that is put in a public place so that people can go to see it

3.highlight[transitive]v.
to make a problem or subject easy to notice so that people pay attention to it

4.makeshift adj.
made to be used for a short time only when nothing better is available

5.memorial[countable]n.
something, especially a stone with writing on it, that reminds people of someone who has died

6.potentially [+ adjective/adverb]
something that is potentially dangerous, useful etc is not dangerous etc now, but may become so in the future

7.glide 2 [always + adverb/preposition]v.
to move smoothly 4 and quietly, as if without effort


The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that is dedicated 5 to managing and preserving wildlife.



n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
n./v.溜,滑行;(时间)消逝
  • We stood in silence watching the snake glide effortlessly.我们噤若寒蝉地站着,眼看那条蛇逍遥自在地游来游去。
  • So graceful was the ballerina that she just seemed to glide.那芭蕾舞女演员翩跹起舞,宛如滑翔。
v.滑动( glide的过去式和过去分词 );掠过;(鸟或飞机 ) 滑翔
  • The President's motorcade glided by. 总统的车队一溜烟开了过去。
  • They glided along the wall until they were out of sight. 他们沿着墙壁溜得无影无踪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地
  • The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作,所以工作进展顺利。
  • Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
学英语单词
abattises
amebism
angular wave number
angustura bark
asferryl
assignment of debts
available power efficiency
babangida
Babcock tube
backup air data sensor assembly
belt weight meter
beta-binomial distribution
bone collagen fiber
Boudin's method
built to order
camerlengos
cat-hair
Cavare
chain transformation
chatter like a magpie
cite for
clean-skin
clearance agent
commit
Compton effect laser
concentric symtom
contentsome
convalescent district
Craig, Mt.
culling level
deactivating a segment
deed of charter of ship
detective film
devocalizing
Dewi, Saint
dostoevskii
drinking games
dxa
elastic buckling analysis
erosive type
expected duration
film hybrid integrated circuit
fir-needle
fixing fares and rates
genus maniss
glossal
have the courtesy to do something
informative abstract
insoluble proteins
interlocking data
interstate compact
isobutyronitrile
leading sunspot
link bait
lockaway
logolepts
MCS (management command system)
mechanism of heat transfer
melligo
military reason
milk thistles
mitsui fudosan
Mullet Key
Nasorolevu
neufville
neutralizing power of lens
nigger-driver
normal-moverout spectrum
Palatini
pan grease
parity switch
perforation of cardiac valve
poor cluster
poor white trash
Povarenkino
pre-heated air
proofing box
protected motor
pulsometer (pump)
quasi easement
Red No.2
relaxation drink
Salgadinho
sapo cinereus
scale decimal arithmetic
sense of organization
short-run decision
shortcut key combinations
sized up
south-west c.
tit for tats
to put one's foot down
toxicapathy
Trichnellidae
visual doubles
watre
wet fading
wheel molding machine
winnowing down
with spur and yard
Woodbridge
ZC-worm