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
a.k
abyssobenthos
aeci(di)ospore
aircraft pylon
albinic
applied thinking science
aspecular
automatic ignition
B share, B stock
base cylinder
Bela Sāgar
belly-swagger
book value basis
botas
breaking change
bring back to earth
bunkoing
catapult strip
cathode disc
chain balabce
close operation
coterminous
croans
cube farms
curve of molded displaced volumes versus draft
cypraea chinensis
dapplings
desmutagen
electric outlets
eloigner
exchange salutes
farm let
FGM
foreign shares
gaze
Guitarthritis
head segment
Huequi, Pen.
incorporation procedure
information-poor
International Cooperation administration
interrupted time-series design
intraliposomal
joggled lap weld
kallitype
Klionsky
konovalenkoes
legerities
lingual brace
London Naval Conference
loss of nitrogen
loudspeaker outlet
marginal trading
marizomib
maxwell
mobarship
Naranjo, B.de
network index
nonrotating
oesterhelt
oil-pricer
orbit-transfer
organization decision
Oxytropis trichophysa
periplorhamnoside
peristaltic movement
power of law-making
premium allocation
pyramid of light
remoteoperated
Replacement Risk
rise
rosamunde
saloon pistol
San Juan Sacatepéquez
Scotland I.
self-definings
slab floor
sliding vane rotary flowmeter
sortability
spiral resistor
stock market crashes
sulfalepsine
supercooled vapour
swivelling idler
syphilotropic
tebeldi
temminck
tert-butyl benzoate
testicular determining gene
thematic catalog
Thillaye's bandage
thiotetracycline
thone
three-coordinate complex
timelimited
Tiros
torpedo countermeasures and deception
transmittal
Tułowice
vietnams
Wuchang Uprising