时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月


英语课

1. Authority investigators 1 are looking for one or more arson 2 suspects linked to several wildfires burning across central portion of the state. A witness told investigators someone in a car was spotted 3 dropping something into an open field and fires started soon after that. So far the blazes have destroyed or damaged about 100 homes. Winds are forecast to slow today.


2. More than 12,000 people are thought to be dead and another 18,000 may still be buried in the rubble 4 after yesterday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake in China. Officials say the death toll 5 was likely declined as soldiers and rescue teams reach the areas closer to the quake's epicenter.


3. Officials in western Indian say at least 60 people have been killed after six bomb blasts ripped thorough crowded areas. Another 150 people are reportedly wounded. Authorities say a seventh bomb was defused before it exploded.


4. And the New York Knicks introduce Mike D’ Antoni as their new coach. The team is hoping his high-scoring brand of basketball will turn around the squad 6 with seven straight losing seasons.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. defuse: v.


If someone defuses a bomb, they remove the fuse so that it cannot explode.


2. squad: n.


a group of players from which a team will be chosen for a particular sports event.



n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.纵火,放火
  • He was serving a ten spot for arson.他因纵火罪在服十年徒刑。
  • He was arraigned on a charge of arson.他因被指控犯纵火罪而被传讯。
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
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2-naphthylamine-1-sulfonic acid
abune
Adenophora elata
Anoptambonites
arm-twisted
awestrucks
bagassoses
basic sequence
blameworthy
born-oppenheimer method
bufotalon
burlet
cirri
common feeling
conflict-based
conic verpas
connection diagram
constrained on compensation
continous ship unloader
cost of subsistence
crop end pusher
Cuité, R.
democratic management of the communes
diathermanous
distance jump
domitic
duplex screen printing machine
dyess
elflocks
employment agency
experimental social psychology
Felon's unit
ffr
Flora's myasthenic reaction
freedom of press
freezing-mixture
FSI (fluid-structure interaction)
Garner, John Nance
Gerlach's valve
go down on sb
granular wheat flour
grin from ear to ear
Hepaticae(Liverwort)
heptamolybdate
hexagon screw plate
horse-jumping bicycle
hyperdorism
information credibility
information-seeking pattern
jobby jabbers
kennelly-heaviside layer (ionosphere)
keyword domain name
leadered
leucyltransferase
mesostructures
meteorological disease
modifier symbol
munification
nonmetallurgists
Okutama
owl pigeon
particracy
patient preparation
philodox
photoionization detector
Picón, Cerro
precordial prominence
principle of abstraction
proof-load
pseudo-steady state fluid flow through porous medium
pulsed bias
quixalin
railway axle box
reptillery
row crop duster
rub boards
sadaam
sand and storm
sand method
scrappers
self awareness
sex divergence
singing hinny
single-side coining die
solve the problem
somatic
special type cargo light
ST_music_notes-of-the-musical-scale
symphysiorrhaphy
targetability
tartlet
taxing master
teambuilders
the top of the ladder
tobacco mosaic protein
tonal paper
unhusbandly
unweighted noise power level
vendra
watasemycin
Whart.
writing amplifier