时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语新闻与报道—News and Reports


英语课

 Wk 37 (11 September 2001)


USA Suffers 4 Simultaneous AttacksThis Week in HistoryThe world watches in shock and awe 1 as 4 commercial airliners 2 wreak 3 havoc 4 in the USA.


 


In 2001, the world watched its TV screens in disbelief as 4 commercial airliners were simultaneously 5 hijacked 6 in U.S. airspace and diverted. Two were flown directly into the upper storeys of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York, causing their sudden collapse 7. A third was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, nerve center of the U.S. military. While the fourth was brought down before reaching its presumed target, the White House or Congress. Some 3,000 people died in these incidents.



n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
n.客机,班机( airliner的名词复数 )
  • The fog grounded the airliners. 大雾迫使班机停飞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They placed very stable and accurate atomic clocks on regularly scheduled jet airliners. 他们将非常稳定、准确的原子钟装在定期飞行的喷气式班机上。 来自辞典例句
v.发泄;报复
  • She had a burning desire to wreak revenge.她复仇心切。
  • Timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.怯懦的人总是把满腹牢骚向温和的人发泄。
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。
adv.同时发生地,同时进行地
  • The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
  • The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。
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。
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
学英语单词
acid disproportionation
acid-base balance
acute simple red cell aplastic anemia
Ajasse
allowable flooding
analysis by synthesis
arbalester
backdooring
basil mints
Bencao Yanyi, Augmented Materia Medica
big-city delinquency problems
Birmasil special alloy
boiler convection tube bank
bold-face type
Butea
carry generation
chemical burn of auricle
chemical mutagen
chestnut coal
continuous cooling rate
continuous pressure operation
controversial issue
copper mt.
curved diagram
Delta Aquarids
deudorix rapaloides
direct-coupled power amplifier tube
disyoke
earth atmospheric optics
electric railroad
encryption technique
ermight
escopet
forced high-elastic deformation
galvanic shock
genetic counselings
ground-plot
hamotzi
have a mind
Hazak
high-ability
hysterical spine
indecomposable channel
johnsonii
keep something in
Kermadec Is.
koupal
leadbellies
Leptasteria
Linea nuchalis superior
LOPAIR
Machito, Cayo
magazine creel
marginal production
millbrook
Mulchatna R.
occlusal guide plane
ocular counterrolling test
offshore well
omnifont reader
oxedrine
passive detector
pavonine
personal financial statement
Petit-Canal
pilwo
pole-vault stand
potential pacemaker
prediction of spontaneous combustion
pulse multiplex coding
quondary
ravels
realsalt
residential care
rubbish bin
sags and crests
seal casinghousing
shostak
shotfiring cable tests
silica-rich
singing propeller
slim-waisted
slough-off
solar flare hazard
Spirillum litorale
sprung out
starter drive
succussions
sulpho-acid
sweatsoaked
tale teller
trackback
trustcards
Tsukumi
twiddle-twaddle
two-point bit
ultra-high-frequency wave
unberried
web grammar
welfare cheater
Yamato Seamount
Zaiwa