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
abnormal heating
acoustic absorption rubber
acyl peroxide
Ag banding
aretakis
arteriolar sclerosis
astrom
batch control form
bearding plate
bicyclical
boiler-turbine-generator unit protection
Borgu
bounded variable
bubble cakes
cable lengths
capstan spindle
chloromelanitite
CHONPS
cohert
concentrate on one's work
conducting stratum
construction noise
continental glaciers
corner clamp
corsac
cracking mechanism
cracks of inner counter
dealer price
deformed plate
dipterous insects
disc conveyer
economic distance
fluoresceins
food waste disposer
functional array calculator
Goniothalamus yunnanensis
gorlin
grading shoe
Halmaal
horizontal cladding
Humaninsulin
infiltration flux
inventory monitoring
ium (international union of mathematics)
kenoses
letter l
liner rerms
Loropetalum subcapitatum
loveabler
low-volume nozzle
mathematical game
mean flow-rate
Meesden
moisture-proof generator
net secondary production
no other . . . than
nussierite
One's mouth is full of pap.
outer court
parallel arrangement of transmission lines
Phenylketone
picadors
plicae ampullares
prylle
quinazol
rag-shop
red-giant tip
remorts
rib knit
rivercraft
satirism
semilocal isomorphism
shap cotton
sole pan
somekh
spasmodic stricture
spheroma
subject to prior sale
sublimeness
Supplemental Security Income
system quality factor
tautomeric shifts (watson 1965)
the brief and the long
the noon of life
third-class entities
thirst center
time-sharing scheme
tippex
to devaluate
Triticum repens
tunica vasulosa oculi
Tzara, Tristan
unconfined compressive strength
uncrumbled
under review
under-dress
urbaniana
vanikoro distans
Voice of America
wind-swept
WinDD
zigzag metaphase