时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(五月)


英语课

1. Southeast Missouri has received 15 inches of rain in the past four days. It's proving to be too much for a levee that's keeping a swollen 1 river from inundating 2 the town of Poplar Bluff 3. It has cracked in at least one spot. But authorities say it probably won't mean a wider evacuation.


 


2. The man suspected of leaving a pipe bomb at a Colorado shopping mall is now in the custody 4 of the FBI. Police in Boulder 5 say Earl Moore was captured today at a grocery store. He has an extensive criminal record.


 


3. The family of a Maine mother who went missing over the weekend is offering a $3,000 reward for her safe return. Krista Dittmeyer's baby was found unharmed in a car. But there was no trace of the 20-year-old.


 


4. And with three days to go until the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, some people have begun camping out for prime viewing spots. One man calls himself a super fan of the late Princess Diana, he wants to see her son wed 6.



adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
v.淹没( inundate的现在分词 );(洪水般地)涌来;充满;给予或交予(太多事物)使难以应付
  • Floodwaters are inundating states up and down the Eastern Seaboard. 洪水淹没了东部沿海各州。 来自互联网
  • Their invasion of the city effecttidal wave inundating first the immigrant colonies. 他们的涌入城市,象潮头一样首先淹没了移民地带。 来自互联网
v.虚张声势,用假象骗人;n.虚张声势,欺骗
  • His threats are merely bluff.他的威胁仅仅是虚张声势。
  • John is a deep card.No one can bluff him easily.约翰是个机灵鬼。谁也不容易欺骗他。
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
n.巨砾;卵石,圆石
  • We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲,把大石头搬开了。
  • He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。
v.娶,嫁,与…结婚
  • The couple eventually wed after three year engagement.这对夫妇在订婚三年后终于结婚了。
  • The prince was very determined to wed one of the king's daughters.王子下定决心要娶国王的其中一位女儿。
学英语单词
amicron
Anode Furnaces
Anthracosiidae
applied surface science
automatic direction finding
base-level epoch
Bernoulli shift
blown it
bouillon culture-medium
byelorussias
cachaemia
cardiorespiratory capacity
certification on tax payment
chat room
chemical physics
Clematis verticillaris
computer-assisted diagnosis
content editing
contingent rentals
correlated sediments
cutting-off of short-circuit
degree of synchronous start-stop distortion
diacatholicon
die supporter
dilapidatedly
distributed data base network
downy chess
Einstein relation
electric-generating set
electro-optic directional coupler
ethylidene-diamine
feeler finger
for a space
genus clostridiums
get ... across
glass measuring device
half sib test
hebetation
hoisting shackle
homospecific
horizontal mixing
hypercoaster
Hypericum himalaicum
inchange
internal straight boring
lenticulate
longshore wind
lourent series
lumbo-ovaria
market ecology
meridional heat flux
micklewright
mordant assistant
Morryoune
murambite
nhc
Nuevitas
oil of caoutchouc
oryza meyeriana zoll et mor. et steud.
outboard tank
Papularia
part-time shift
particle content
pennies-in-the-slot
phthorimaea operculellas
point of the compass
Poungui
power factor adjustment
preasphaltene
preobrazhenskite
pressurized compartment
private-owned corporation
prominent discrete tone
propp
purpletufts
radiation hazards
reactor starter
refrigeration technique
return performance
river markings
rubeola
run burst
school-one
self lubricating sheave
short time switching off
spongiole
Stockelsdorf faience
stub-switch
subgenital seta
synchroswitching-in
target backscatter
theft of state property
thimet sulfonoxide
topophobia
tragi-comics
two row impulse wheel
umbellonic acid
volunteer mediator
whale-watching
winding up an account
yangtze basin
Zambesi fever