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
ad-hocs
altitude throttle
Ankarsund
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
babygirls
Ban Suan Klang
bariumize
baronism
basic data type
box girder bridge
Bryeae
cast in chilling
castrogeriz (castrojeriz)
chamoisite
cyclising
delivery by means of declaration
deputy delegate
dioctyl azelate
Donoghue and Bostock centrifuge
dreader
dridge
ecuatoriana
electrochemical finish
elemis
elleck
engine suspension
enveloped virus
eslt
family Pholididae
fibre optic cable
gateage indicator
general purpose foils
georheodynamics
goodshot
ground based navigation
gueno
Hall.
hearing damage
hiatus
high-frequency emphasis
ignite ability
ignited whisky
interior monologues
introversive management
ioad
ionic micelle
Key West National Wildlife Refuge
leaf gauge
leptocephalus stage
letterspacing
line reaming
little terror
Lobata
manufacturing control
Md. A.
monetary theory
motorola microprocessors
Mudan electric fan
nanoequivalents
nevinson
nitroerythrol
non-stop switch
numbering die
off shore drilling
on the orders
pag inal
pcrs
physicks
pretreatment
production rhythm
rehydratable food
resume switch
salperton
Sary-Chelekskiy Zapovednik
Saussurea polycolea
seedzone
seek to
sejoining
self-emission
self-registering aneroid
show the way
signal mask
sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate mixture
square league
starting characteristics test
stilo novo
synthetic gypsum
tar-macadam
tawaite(tawite)
thief sample
Tirunelveli
tonna allium
tree-lights
unexpendable
vet.med.
Viet's effect
wages owedto employees
waterproof mortar
Weischlitz
whiteface r.
wild honey
Zagórze