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
abbreviaters
adder's fern
anglicus
aronowitz
beam-and-crank mechanism
beat reporter
benefit of inventory
biological mineralization
blow molding machines
bolt with one end bent back
breadnut
bring ... to justice
Caryophyllaceae
cascading flow
cazzo
coupling variable
Creal Springs
cuprous arsenide
Cyelopar
dark-hunter
demon-king
development immunology
digital hologram
display editing features
dissociation temperature
drag shoe
drill pipe gauge
Eleanor Gwyn
elways
emergency ration
enwheels
episodic memory
error-detection protocol
evolutionary ethics
frozen-pizza
genus gypaetuss
genus Molva
grudge
haemulon malanurums
Havre-Aubert
heartstopping
hematine
heyem
homoromantic
Hyalospongea
in contumaciam
in the name of Christ
increasing nutrient concentration
intendance officer
inventory relevant cost
jitties
job watch
keyboard operating system
kilowatthour
labile shelf
lachrimae
lapaxis
lepidogalaxias salamandroides
logging scale
low-level cut-out
lutetium-hafnium age method
lygher
macrozone
malamanteau
micranthropos
naraingarh
NAV-to-NAV
ngata
nuclearism
onesizefitsall
outside bulge
petherick
phase failure sensitive thermal relay
poligeenan
political-minded
praeparata testa
preflorations
program chooser
pseudoexogenous adaptation
quality test procedure
rapid combustion period
rasby
reciprocating rolling mill
renal portal system
saddle-bottmed car
school of music
semi-elliptical
single-bank engine
skewed distribution
sodium phosphide
solid-propellant booster rocket
sphericize
stone curlew
stress shadow
subaccountants
tie renewal
toothed concave
tracheoschisis
uk -framed
water column bracket
workoholic
zinc magnesia chalcanthite