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。
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abjoule
aescine
airs cryogenic aerosol processor
ala of central lobule
amangkurat
ambulator
anomala loi
arietate
auger electron emission
becking
bendalloy
blunders into
bullbeggar
chain data address
CIE-C
committed effective dose equivalent
critical layer
cross colour
cylindrical chart
debit system
diffusion theory approximation
dunno.
end control
excelsior wrapper
falkow
flat tin
flower-piece
geake
Gemmatimonadetes
GM_nouns-and-prepositions
gymnosperm
hemalyke
heteroheptamers
hitchment
hoyt
indecent assault
intrasite communications
joachann
know how many beans make five
Koninckophyllum
kordell
La Trobe R.
Lauesymmetry
liquid mirror telescope
Lynenol
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
martyrs
masking tape
mating rate of virgin female meths
MCL level
meerbeke
mesodermic
minsk mazowiecki
mitochondrional
monargentic
Montreal River
municipally-owned
n.t.
operating hazard analysis
organorubidium
overall external dimension
paper wasp
pcoes
PCSA
pectinid
Pelham, Henry
physically impaired
picture demodulator
polianthes tuberosas
polycotyleden
pubococcygeal
quashed
radial-thrust force
reception facilities
recyclists
resource data subsystem
robert capa
sadi carnots
septate fiber tracheid
single-bed converter
soap bubble
Southeyville
spermatio-
spinal vein
sporidesmium magnibrachypus
squatting speed
St-Antonin
state contables
strainer vines
straw pick-up loader
subheads
suppressed output
surface-grinding
tatoin
time-line
transfer survey inmining district
troostites
V. I.
ventora
water line corrosion
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