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
aerohydrotherapy
arresting pin
automatic vacuumcan sealing machine
average turnover period
benched stack
Berninian
beshar
beta receptors
bezzle
blaccents
blue-printing-apparatus
Bokhara clover
brick yard
bushing frame
by-turn bidding
cat-in-the-hat
cerous hydroxide
checkbox
colpoxerosis
dangle round
Decadrol
declarations of estimated tax
Deep Water Bay
delita
diet mixed
domestic architecture
earth resistance of wind turbine generator set
exclosures
exhaust steam pressure
faithing
far ben
Fluimukan
fore vacuvm reservoir
forget who i am
forma mentis
frame slot
frequency modulation broadcast band
gene frequency
Głogoczów
hand hose line
herdan
high-risk pregnancy
host service protocol
hot house production
Hracholusky
hysterical blindness
imido-chloride
inland navigation vessel
jessica lucy mitfords
landing nets
line gun colour picture tube
linsey-woolseys
lusum
machicolation
mandibular glide movement
Mangombe
medium-grained
monomerically
muerto
nacke
national college
no-frills
non-reportings
non-testifying experts
noncommittal
nonexpanding
page check
palmesthetic
partial process
perspectas
piggy backing
pith ray
protective tariff
pulse-repetition period
purple arrowroot
Raficin
record blocking
rijk
rodge
rope bailing
rotating worm plough
rubber matting
sadri
Salix jinchuanica
semiconductor process
shale compaction coefficient
Sjφvegan
soru (sory)
St. Tr.
stanislavski institute
stop-all button
thiepane
three-dimensional hologram
thrue
trad-publishing
transcendental critique
trihexyphenidyl
trochoid wave
two-demineralization system
ultraprophylaxis
wet board former with twin cylinders
word transfer instruction