时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2012年(八)月


英语课

 First up today, from Florida to Louisiana, the watch was on for Isaac. Early Sunday, this was listed as a tropical storm with wind speeds up to 65m/h. But forecasters were saying Isaac could strengthen to a hurricane today, and that’s when it was expected to move across the Florida Keys. Around Florida, people started getting ready for the storm last week. They filled sandbags and stocked up on supplies, things like bottled water, batteries and flashlights. The storm projected path showed it moving up into the Gulf 1 of Mexico, west of Tampa. That’s why the start of the Republican National Convention which is happening in Tampa is being delayed until tomorrow. Officials are hoping that will make it safer for delegates. 


 
 
 
Tropical storm Isaac moved across the Caribbean over the weekend. One of the countries it hit there was Haiti. Martin Savidge examines the impact that the storm had on Haiti. 
 
 
 
A machete is Haiti’s answer to the problem, and almost everybody seems to have one. The trees that blocked the road have also pulled down telephone and power lines. We clear one obstacle only to find more lie ahead. Water is even greater danger, threatening to rise faster than it can run off. You can see the water is coming down through this cut, and what they want to make sure is that you don’t get any debris 2, the branches, the tree limbs, things like that, because if they were to clog 3 in ay way, then you’ve got a real problem of flooding in the community. So this makes perfectly 4 good sense. Then comes the flooding. Soon, it gets worse. This is what we feared, and this is exactly what’s happening. The water rushing down off of hills, finds its own channel, makes its own way. In this case, it just happens to be right through a neighborhood. Eventually, we’re on the road again, and make our way to Jacmel where ironically the power may be out, but the city’s traffic light is still functioning. We find out way to the town’s two evacuation chambers 5. So we’re just going to have a look inside to see the conditions where people spent the night. You can see the conditions here are pretty miserable 6 at best. There is no electricity. The only thing they can say they have is a shelter over their head. At least they’re semi-dry. What about food? 
 
He says no food. 
 
 
 
There is food at the next shelter. Two plastic buckets of peanut butter and jelly to feed close 1,000 people. Misery 7 is about the only thing there’s plenty of. 
 
 
 
In the northwest Pacific Ocean, hurricanes are called typhoons, and the Japanese island of Okinawa is dealing 8 with a massive one. In fact, officials say this is the strongest typhoon to hit Okinawa in more than 50 years. The island is used to typhoons. One storm chaser told CNN that all the houses there are built with concrete in order to protect against these storms. But typhoon Bolaven is more than $1,200 miles from end to end. That’s about 20 times bigger than the entire island of Okinawa. There are concerns that a typhoon will create huge waves that could wash out highways along the coast.

1 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
3 clog
vt.塞满,阻塞;n.[常pl.]木屐
  • In cotton and wool processing,short length fibers may clog sewers.在棉毛生产中,短纤维可能堵塞下水管道。
  • These streets often clog during the rush hour.这几条大街在交通高峰时间常常发生交通堵塞。
4 perfectly
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
5 chambers
n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅
  • The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间:Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网
6 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
7 misery
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
8 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
学英语单词
a man of means
adult type hyaline membrane disease
alim
authorizable
back kick
be in the market for something
best foot forward
Bibargi
biological defence
blasting protection facilities
bottom hole separator
branchial apparatus
carafoli
carnotites
cathode-ray tube output
CCBF
clutch release fork pin
coated optics
color schlieren system
colward
condition of equilibrium
control complex building
cormatose
crippling strength
cross fingers
crown-group
CS (control section)
cultural science psychology
Cynanchum atratum Bge.
destructionable
dhobying
diesel fuel additives
disc gear cutter
diverticulites
double-trailer truck
Englebright Reservoir
fen peat
fight about
flash spinning
flow gaging station
for years
garoustes
genus sardas
gibsonite
Haemaphysalis punctata
handwrote
have no knowledge of
industrial explosives
integrated structure
ionoionone
itshay
Jerem.
jib head
Kiyan-zaki
Lammastide
loves ruses
magri
marisca
mate killer
methylidiyne
monogramma trichoidea
Montanan
moving chaingrate retort
muciduct
mumetal shield
n-unit code
Nabolo
naphthene-base crude petroleum
Nemophila menziesii
nounier
nyj
opinionator
Oxytropis ramosissima
Pageview
pc600 rdram
percussion of spleen
phosphorescent wheel
piesoelectric stabilizer
piggle
Porcellian
priority switch table
prostatic catheter
quicksand
reactor core baffle
renarration
shared database
shopping at
Silverman needle
solid-state fermentation
Soreton
spor-
stator series resistor starting
survival analysis
TAQW
the cognitive-developmental approach
three-mirror contact lens
trockenbeerenauslese
undercounting
vigoured
volumetric flow meter
white-washer
whitewashings