时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:商业报道2008年(六)月


英语课

Good morning from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui. Thanks for checking in. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.


A levee break this morning in Illinois near the swollen 1 Mississippi River has forced the closure of the Great River Bridge that links Gulf 2 Port to Burlington. The break has engineers keeping watch on other levees, just in case. The Army Corps 3 of Engineers estimates that more than two dozen levees between Davenport, Iowa and St Louis could fail this week. Now the race is on to raise those levees with millions of sandbags. President Bush will see some of the damage himself on Thursday.


The American Red Cross is out of cash. It says it's borrowing money to pay for disaster relief for the Midwest flooding victims. Over the past two months, the Red Cross has responded to 30 disasters. Executives also say donors 4 are giving less because of high gas prices and the slumping 5 housing market.


In China, more than 60 people have died in some of the worst flooding in decades. The rising waters have forced more than one million people out of their homes and torrential rains have been making it extremely difficult to help those who are survivors 6 of last month's earthquake.


This afternoon people will get a chance to say goodbye to Tim Russert. There is a public wake for the late "Meet the Press" host in Washington. A private funeral and burial will take place tomorrow. Russert died of a heart attack on Friday. An autopsy 7 showed he had an enlarged heart and a blocked artery 8 that ruptured 9.


Be sure to stick with CNN.com 24/7 for news from all around the world. Of course we are gonna have your updates right here throughout the day.



adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
大幅度下降,暴跌( slump的现在分词 ); 沉重或突然地落下[倒下]
  • Hong Kong's slumping economy also caused a rise in bankruptcy applications. 香港经济低迷,破产申请个案随之上升。
  • And as with slumping, over-arching can also be a simple postural habit. 就像弯腰驼背,过度挺直也可能只是一种习惯性姿势。
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
n.尸体解剖;尸检
  • They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
  • A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。
n.干线,要道;动脉
  • We couldn't feel the changes in the blood pressure within the artery.我们无法感觉到动脉血管内血压的变化。
  • The aorta is the largest artery in the body.主动脉是人体中的最大动脉。
v.(使)破裂( rupture的过去式和过去分词 );(使体内组织等)断裂;使(友好关系)破裂;使绝交
  • They reported that the pipeline had ruptured. 他们报告说管道已经破裂了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany. 柏林墙终于倒塌了,预示着德国的重新统一。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
accommodation code
acid open hearth
Al-Haj
allyl fluoride
amoebiases
anti collision light
Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia
arm mast
arthur millers
aseptic tissue culture
autoicomyces falcifer
be rolling in money
be with
benzoylacrylic acid
bi- colour water gauge
Big nose
blessed thistle
bolar blake
Bonjean curves
brush beef
BSF solar cell
burnel
cineromycin
circuit operating time
context - free language
coordinated anionic polymerization
danna
deca-candelas
Delphinium hirticaule
dependance
Desmethyldopan
diaminophenazine
dumbfree
economy audit
egg matzahs
electronic counter countermeasures
facial recognition
fannia gracilis
fistula of nasopharynx
fitting screw
FL.PT.
flair bartending
Glissjöberg
glycylglycine dipeptidase
Gov.-Gen.
higher-risk
hydro-electric power
interdespise
konak
lacteal duct
line failure
linear line congruence
macronormoblastic reaction
malvalic acid
maraviroc
marmi
meteorologic radar station
normal draught
numdah rugs
papular and noduar mucinosis
para-amino sulfuric acid
park-leaves
passive filters and other passive networks
passive leader
Pernå (Pernaja)
Phyllanthus taxodiifolius
pleasures of the flesh
printing key
private buffer pool
Prorva
radar laying
receive a visit from
restart pulse
ribofuranose
Ruby Valley Indian Reservation
Rājgīr Hills
s slipper
seedless
simulated bomb explosion
Solodyn
space drawing
speech signal digital model
spray weather
spring modulus
St-Martin-d'Arrosa
subsampling of unequal clusters
summer radish
summoner
synechia of iris
Taipeh
taxonomic biochemistry
TCP theorem
temporal method of translating statements
transprejudice
tumult
tyrphostins
uncapper
verochka
very high rates of pressing
villonodular tenosynovitis
waste utilization
wrfes