AP 2012-07-09
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(七月)
英语课
1. Some relief for firefighters in the west battling wildfires - rain in the form of strong thunderstorms. In Colorado, that fire that ravaged 1 neighborhoods near Colorado Springs is nearly contained.
2. Six days after violent storms knocked out power in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic for two million people, some half a million remain in the dark, most in West Virginia. The state's hilly terrain 2 slowing repair crews.
3. A yacht full of revelers capsizes on the Fourth of July in New York, 27 on board, three children died. The man operating the yacht says it was hit by a rogue 3 wave.
4. In Mexico, a giant panda will be artificially inseminated next year in hopes the 22-year-old female will add to the panda family in Mexico City. No panda has been born here since Xin Xin, the female in 1990.
毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫
- a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
- The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。
n.地面，地形，地图
- He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
- He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。