时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(四)月


英语课

1.Officials say a young gunman has been successfully and safely disarmed 1 aboard a hijacked 2 Canadian charter jet on the ground in Jamaica. All the passengers have been released but six crew members were still aboard. The gunman is described as "mentally challenged” and was demanding to be flown to Cuba.


2.It was ten years ago today that two students killed a teacher and twelve of their classmates at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. A private memorial service for the victims is planned for tonight on the school's campus.


3.The US and Israel are leading a boycott 3 of a UN conference on racism 4 that opens today in Switzerland. The countries are concerned that the Muslim nations will dominate the conference with calls to denounce Israel and for a global ban on criticizing Islam.


4.It's Holocaust 5 Remembrance Day in Israel. In Jerusalem, two Auschwitz survivors 6 have come together to talk about their experiences 65 years after they first met as teenagers in the death camp.



v.裁军( disarm的过去式和过去分词 );使息怒
  • Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。
  • The swordsman disarmed his opponent and ran him through. 剑客缴了对手的械,并对其乱刺一气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
劫持( hijack的过去式和过去分词 ); 绑架; 拦路抢劫; 操纵(会议等,以推销自己的意图)
  • The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome. 飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。
  • The plane was hijacked soon after it took off. 那架飞机起飞后不久被劫持了。
n./v.(联合)抵制,拒绝参与
  • We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
  • The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
n.民族主义;种族歧视(意识)
  • He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
  • Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。
n.大破坏;大屠杀
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
学英语单词
2-trifluoromethylbenzoyl chloride
a bee mite
a rule of thumb
a rural area
ad valorem tax
afrikan
althiomycin
amphoteric character
atable
Ataroth
availsome
backslappes
baryum(barium)
boost gauge
bottom shade
Carman, Bliss
caserne
cerebrospinal nerve
continuous slowing-down treatment
cosmetically
creep velocity
cyber-warfare
dagne
de-electronation
deck strake
deficient purchase
diode waveguide switch
early-stage uremia
endo('s) agar
fixed programme
flag wavings
flanders
flavogallol
flesh-tone
flying kisses
food-supplies
for the high jump
forbidden radiative transition
formable
green drake
gyroscopic pendulum
H-graft
heteroskedastic
homosynkaryon
hugger mugger
hypoaesthesia
in-God
industrial store
intrusion aid
ISORAS
Jatropha urens
karyotyping
Khafs Banbān
kristle
material inlet
military planes
miniparamyosin
multicampaign
multisubcultural
natural fabric
Nordurandron
observed gravity
obtusilingual
octamerization
of'em
Opticantact
Orange Canyon
parochialization
pericardial aorta
pipling
pirata denticulatus
range error function
rate limiting
re-rigging
residue valence
roll forming
rotary screen printing
scantity
Schismatoglottis
self-adjustable drill chuck
seminal groove
shiitake mushroom
ship-bote
shipping yard
sir oliver lodges
Slievenamuck
slingshot effect
split display
state of elastic equilibrium
strike a raw nerve
strongers
subductions
take-out
thermosonde
threewire
throughstone
Time Multplexed Switching
triple-screw motor ship
under sb's feet
viteline areola
wrap and solder splice
wset