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
a trap
aconitum koreanum r. raymund
adjustment of levelling network
administrer
aile
al qusayr (el quseir)
all done
AM
analog inpput expander
Antoinette
aqueous two-phase extraction
astringing lung for relieving cough
basic acetate
Bhiwandi
blimey
bolt clippers with tubular handle
boomerang grab
cercospora leaf spot of kaki
chung
commercial hegemony
conference-goers
curve / spiral point
deficit matrix
destructionist
digital switchover of public service programme
dispensatorily
dolichovigna dolichovigna formosana hay.
dried-blood
evenhead
FAC (file access channel)
flat-picking
gigantic
Goat Fell
graphical structure
have not a dry stitch on one's back
helianthus giganteuss
hole sealing
Howe crown
intersection of barrier
irrigated plot
ISDR
isosarcolysine
ISSC
ketohexonate
knitting computer
laced-up
lamellaphones
larkey
Lidui
lindsaea japonica
made a martyr of himself
Marshall-type design
methanals
microwave solid state maser
mingel
minimum breaking force
MOS memory
ocean throught b/l
olive molding
organic origin theory
parietosplanchnic
pdsitive colloid
performance coefficient for shaft horse power
platforming reaction
power supply trace
precast concrete cladding
process of lapping
pseudo level
purple apricots
radiation transfer index
real audit
reinforcement by thickened embedded nozzle
relative hepatic dullness
Rusto
screw header
Sea-going Steel Ship Rules
self adjusting jaw vice
semicylindrical
Ship's Dimension
Solanum griffithii
speal
spider flowers
St Andrew's Day
standardized data
story-times
successive government
supernatation
supersonic accretion
supplement food
tafs
Talmud
tausend
television timing pulse
time off the cuff
toasts
transverse electroman-getic wave
two-way difference
uchi
Vaughan's typhoid residue
wage and price control
yoked lake