时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(七)月


英语课

1. Flames shot hundreds of feet into the air after a gasoline tanker 1 exploded and overpass 2 collapsed 3 all near Detroit. State police in Michigan say the truck's driver is alive and accounted for. They say they aren't sure at this point what caused the explosion.


2. Authorities in Florida have arrested an eighth person in the killings 4 of Byrd and Melanie Billings. Pamela Long Wiggins has been charged with accessory after the fact to felony murder. She is said to be friends with Leonard Gonzalez Junior, someone described as a "pivotal person" in organizing last week's deadly break-in.


3. One man dead after a police shootout near the US capital. Authorities say the driver of this white Mercedes sped away from a routine traffic stop, struck two officers with the car then pulled out a gun. Police opened fire when the suspect refused to drop his weapon.


4. After more than a month's delay, Endeavor and its seven astronauts are finally on their way to the International Space Station. Success came on NASA's sixth launch attempt. The shuttle had been held off by technical problems and bad weather.



n.油轮
  • The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
  • Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
n.天桥,立交桥
  • I walked through an overpass over the road.我步行穿过那条公路上面的立交桥。
  • We should take the overpass when crossing the road.我们过马路应走天桥。
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发
  • His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
  • The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
学英语单词
accentors
acid-rains
aircraft tyre
arrented
bacteriotherapies
badis
Ban Pha Wi
banana pin
be adapted for
bridge quad
brine balance tank
building installation
Calanthe limprichtii
chateau-bottled socialist
chronic simple glaucoma
closed auction
cocked hats
colobomata
colour photography
compotatory
compression casting
confocal paraboloidal cooradinate
custom based on tradition
descending from
diametrically-opposed
Dodgson
dome-shaped bottom
evergreen thorn
extended route
forelocking
formation dancing
fundacion
Gardner's tumour
giannaris
Hasid
heptathlete
Heswall
homogeneous coordinate system
hybanthus enneaspermus(l.)f.muell.
hydatina albocincta
hypercolour
inserted type brake
insignitors
inverse-time thermo-overcurrent trip
keyed attribute
killing us all
magnetic temperature
manilla papers
maytansinoids
media advisory
microswitch
military personnel
Mizue
momentarian
Morgagni's ventricle
multiple-spot scanning
new born baby bed
OK lamp
panniculectomies
paradesmi
parsalmide
partial common battery
peripheral passage
pheromone party
pileiform
platinum(iv) iodide
post-accident heat removal
Prefox
preserveth
privity of contract
product-service package valuation
puckered pants
pulsating
pusher
qualitative investigation
Raphidiopsis sinensis
reply for
rest bend
scronched
sensitive personality
serac
serial keys
shake hands with the unemployed
side support
signal selector
soccerers
solid dyeing
stopped check
sumbul
talus bone
tank lorry
technical regulations
tightly-pressed structure
time to double
tonsonite (thomsonite)
transmutator
troff
uphill slope
vaunty
wci
would be late for one's own funeral
X-ray quantometer