时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(八)月


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1. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Fay trigger new flooding along Florida's northern Atlantic coast. Jacksonville residents are now being told to expect the brunt of the storm later today.


2. Two little girls from New Jersey 1 were reunited with their father and will be returning home soon. The girls were trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks. They were in the region spending part of their summer with their grandparents.
 
3. The mother of a missing Central Florida toddler is now free on bail 2. There's hope that Casey Anthony will now open up to investigators 3 about what happened to three-year-old Caylee who vanished in June. 


4. And starting tomorrow, the government will allow food producers to start zapping fresh spinach 4 and iceberg 5 lettuce 6 with just enough radiation to kill E.coli and other dangerous germs. The move is in response to increasing outbreaks from raw produce.



WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online


1. brunt:  n.
to receive the worst part of an attack, criticism, bad situation etc.


2. zap:  v.
to quickly attack or destroy something, especially using a beam of electricity.


3. spinach:  n. 【植】菠菜


4. iceberg lettuce:  n. 【植】卷心莴苣


 



n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
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.菠菜
  • Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
  • You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。
n.冰山,流冰,冷冰冰的人
  • The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。
  • The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
n.莴苣;生菜
  • Get some lettuce and tomatoes so I can make a salad.买些莴苣和西红柿,我好做色拉。
  • The lettuce is crisp and cold.莴苣松脆爽口。
学英语单词
acronis
alderwood manor
Altnaharra
antipolarity
arbane
Arwala
assignable interest
backslashed
bedropping
beechwood creosote
by-street
carcerals
cathode lug
chloropsia
cladophora sakaii
clamp hook
code bar
conjugate series
controllable spark gap
creoles
customs flag
cuvet adapter
cylinder-type tank
day-school
denominator
diglycol aldehyde
electron cyclotron resonance heating
Estolate
expected life
follow something up
gasket piece-cutting machine
got the point
gypsyweed
high-speed ground transport system
HSPG
hydraulic tension regulator
intermediate switching region
intermittent moderate rain
laconicly
lavoy
lead disilicate
lunisolar tide
lyssacine
macaroon
marginal gingiva
mesenteric artery embolization
methallenstril
Minimum Investment
monetary and credit control
moonery
multipurpose timber-harvesting machine
neums
nonsmoothed
nonvolitional
over-allocations
overseas legal reserve
oxanthrenes
Pareto solution
Peoples Insurance Company of China
pixote
pneumatomete
Pnol
polytraumatism
portio dura
postcerebellar
potassium tartrate
power level control
pre-flight calibration
primordial gut
publishers requirements for industry standard metadata
Qomolangma, Mount
rakestraws
Ranunculus grandis
red fish
Remote Desktop Protocol
remove risers
residual shear strength
retinopathies
runabout
rupture velocity
Sanluri
saw guard
senior relative
sets on
shortsightedness
shutdown period
siphonapterology
SNA (systems network architecture)
station-line facilities
steam-turbine lubricating system
subitaneousness
synergisms
t.v.tuner
theoretical space relationship
Tillac
training system
tybamate
unbenefited
unbenign
variable-cell method
well-rewardeds
Yanadani