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
Abu Nidal Organization
Aconchulinida
affirmed without opinion
alkali pulp
american depositary shares
amerindic
arrhythmokinesis
baby bat
barterversus
Blatno
Cancellation of Contract of Carriage of Passengers by Sea
carissa
circulation flow
claim against the underwriters
cloud-service
coachhouse
coast lily
compressive shrinking finish
contralateral tenderness
crashingly
crossorhombus kobensis
cystodiaphanoscopy
danewort
death squads
detector gain
direct material budget
discomfiture
done to
equatorial spore-germination
Europeanisms
excitation source
finely divided scale
fineness fore and aft
flap gasket
flash suppressor
followings
fossil soil method
Golshahr
growth by intussusception
instinctive
intensity of wind erosion
investment performance requirements
ISS (Industry Standard Specifications)
jaebol
Karthaus
kretzschmar
light ballasts
linear parameter
lithium-sulfur dioxide cell
machine-made
mag coke
make good one's retreat
malt rootlets
marattia salicinas
Mosalla
neat-housees
neurodynamics
nickel plated steel
nitroazobenzene
optical page reader (opr)
organohafnium
pagingout
papal state
pickstaff
potato scab bacteria
proms
pull one's rank on
pulsifer
Pusey-Jones indentation hardness
qubytes
quellungs
region base address
resource flexibility
rhodium
rubro
Seco, L.
sheared crack
shotties
single magnet galvanometer
Slk.
solar pointer
Stora Luleälv
superior coccygeal ligament
surveillance-warning satellite
Swivel-Loom
sync generator for monochrome
thyratron
toots your own horn
touching wood
trendiness
triglycine sulfide
Tuesday Group
undertreasurers
ungradable opposition
unroughly
uredinaless
vermicomposted
warning signals
windy cities
Woraso
X-ray fluorimeter
ytterbium(Yb)