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


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 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
above-mentioned
abrenounce
aerocasing
air cushioned vehicle
Altafjorden
antilatent
Aperiodic signal
Aplodonidae
arachnoidea oculi
bagrid
Binet test
butter scotch
cad system
cajunbot
chironomidaes
cigar antenna
circulation question
claw-marks
Clitocybe dealbata
cloud-chamber photograph
colorado maduro
combined schedule of bonds payable by funds
convertor protection
criminalistics
diagonal cut piston ring
eats
electron vacuum ga(u)ge
embatholithic
exercise performance
field crop irrigation
filler contact phone number
flat-bed chromatography
fly-by-nights
foliage height diversity
funding debenture interest
fxu
geeked out
gogar
hauptschule
hebephreniac
hedge bill
hottest-spot temperature allowance
includeth
index number of sensitive prices
ingersolls
insolubiliser
integrated curriculum
integrator computing unit
joint operations center
linear-measuring instrument
long-plaiest
longitudinal ridge
longstrech
Lysenkoite
madoh
markal
microgametoblast
monomialized
Morestead
natrix stolata
nonconservative flux
nonrelaxed
Norfolk Islander
nsls
open link chain drawing frame
order Polymastigina
oxifenamate
paperknife
persulfuric acid
pneumatic throttle
poetasteries
polemicizing
priacanthus fitchi
priest-hole
recurrence horizon
Reuters
Rhododendron magnificum
rosach
scansorial leg
schori
self-propelled chain-type side-rake
serous pleurisy
shekhinah
shockmitigation
Shoshonian language
spent conviction
Spider-sense
sprocket silent chain
strain induced fracture
subulinids
superhelical
synchronous clamping
take the sea
texture of coal seam
thyristor commutation
trihydrallite
turn someone out
two-shell lithiumbromide absorption refrigerating machine
unblemish
unlocking circuit
winding tension
zeolite(molecular sieve)catalyst