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 slice of luck
Aedes scapularis
alpinia officinarums
bacterial equilibrium
Brano
breathe the fresh air
carmel-by-the-sea (carmel)
cattan
cellarways
choke-out
co-lead
commodity aid
concentration relationship
control through market forces
convertor unit protection
cooling sea water outlet valve
copper turnings
dampsquib
deboste
destoolments
diameter of propeller tip
dull beggar
Dumaran
eclaircissements
emergency back-up fuel
emmanuelli
enthralment
fingerprint image
Fothergil's disease
fuckaduck
gioco
graveless
grundskola
Harry, Prince
heat
hemlock woolly adelgid
hereditary malformation
high-priorities
house service consumption
housing standards
internal documents
invite round
isensee
Itamaraju
Jaws of Life
john brown's body
Kirpil'skiy Liman
lampsilis orbiculata orbiculata
Laruns
last leg
least-squares estimator
litalien
lo su ko chuang
long multiplication
loss function
lussoes
mashek
MBTH
Mentha spicata
menthol crystal
mnage
Monteverdian
morus acidosa griff.
nanawa
Nauvo(Nagu)
NET (network analysis program)
Nodaway County
occipitoaxoid
pastin'
pathetizes
Petrikovka
plough the waters
polarized ceramics
population theory
position resolver
quinzine
real-dollar values
retained interest
retreat from rapids
retrieving arrangement
ring-necked parakeet
Roches, Col des
sectioplanography
setup programs
Shaybara
sheboygan
sort by size
synchro-position control
Tabolovo
tax clause
Teide, Pico de
tetracytic type of stomata
thrice
trapezoidal pattern
trematodon ambignus (hedw)hornsch
Trishala
tyre aquaplaning
underwater power generator
vaild reason
videodisc parameters
wandering
wild spinach