时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(九)月


英语课

1. Hurricane Ike sent waves crashing over a seawall as it steamed toward Texas Friday. The powerful storm is threatening to devastate 1 coastal 2 towns and batter 3 America's fourth largest city. Ike's eye was forecast to strike near Galveston late tonight or early tomorrow.


2. Pakistan's main opposition 4 party said that country could pull out of the war on terror. The warning comes after a deadly attack by US forces along the Afghanistan border.


3. During a French pilgrimage Pope Benedict is encouraging a role for religion in shaping public policy. That has angered advocates of secularism 6 in that country. The pope is also expected to denounce fundamentalist fanaticism 7 during a meeting with cultural figures including several Muslim leaders.


4. And just seven weeks before the election, John McCain is slightly ahead of Barack Obama.That's according to a new AP-GFK poll of likely voters.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1.seawall n[C]


a wall built beside the sea to stop the water from flowing onto the land


2.devastate vt.


to lay waste;destroy


3.batter vt.


heavily and repeatedly with violent blows


4.secularism


is generally the assertion that certain practices or institutions should exist separately from religion or religious belief. Alternatively, it is a principle of promoting secular 5 ideas or values in either public or private settings. It may also be a synonym 8 for "secularist 9 movement". In the extreme, it is an ideology 10 that holds that religion has no place in public life.


5.fundamentalist n.[C]


someone who follows religious laws very strictly
Muslim fundamentalists


6.fanaticism


Fanaticism is an emotion of being filled with excessive, uncritical zeal 11, particularly for an extreme religious or political cause, or with an obsessive 12 enthusiasm for a pastime or hobby.


 



v.使荒芜,破坏,压倒
  • A few days before,a fire had devastated large parts of Windsor Castle.几天前,温莎城堡的大部分被一场大火烧毁。
  • Earthquakes can also cause tsunamis,which devastate coastal regions.地震还引发海啸,它直接破坏海岸地区。
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
v.接连重击;磨损;n.牛奶面糊;击球员
  • The batter skied to the center fielder.击球手打出一个高飞球到中外野手。
  • Put a small quantity of sugar into the batter.在面糊里放少量的糖。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.牧师,凡人;adj.世俗的,现世的,不朽的
  • We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
  • Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。
n.现世主义;世俗主义;宗教与教育分离论;政教分离论
  • Unless are devoted to God, secularism shall not leave us. 除非我们奉献于神,否则凡俗之心便不会离开我们。 来自互联网
  • They are no longer a huge threat to secularism. 他们已不再是民主的巨大威胁。 来自互联网
n.狂热,盲信
  • Your fanaticism followed the girl is wrong. 你对那个女孩的狂热是错误的。
  • All of Goebbels's speeches sounded the note of stereotyped fanaticism. 戈培尔的演讲,千篇一律,无非狂热二字。
n.同义词,换喻词
  • Zhuge Liang is a synonym for wisdom in folklore.诸葛亮在民间传说中成了智慧的代名词。
  • The term 'industrial democracy' is often used as a synonym for worker participation. “工业民主”这个词常被用作“工人参与”的同义词。
n.现世主义者,世俗主义者;宗教与教育分离论者
n.意识形态,(政治或社会的)思想意识
  • The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
  • The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。
n.热心,热情,热忱
  • Revolutionary zeal caught them up,and they joined the army.革命热情激励他们,于是他们从军了。
  • They worked with great zeal to finish the project.他们热情高涨地工作,以期完成这个项目。
adj. 着迷的, 强迫性的, 分神的
  • Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
  • He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。
学英语单词
alignment errors
aluminium-nickel
Amanvillers
auditable
avoid someone as the plague
azoferridoxin
be listed
be mild of manner
bilaterally adjustable
burn-grace
bursarial
cater for
cellopentaose
cheroots
colour transmission
constant-strain method
corkery
cosmic-ray isotope
customary measure
deep-pocketed
delete sheet
delictual libility
dentine canals
deodorization by water wash
desialylated
diffuson
Dihydromyrcenol
dispatcher program
dispersor
dorkazoids
drip-driest
duriss
efface yourself
Einstein observatory X-ray telescope
envirosell
Exarthromatology
exhaustivity
feed preheator
flag condition
fordiophyton faberi stapf
forward busying
fuel enthalpy
get across to
give play to
grand pas de basque
guanidinecytosine
hand button
hermitization
heterotrophically
hortulan
i-gurt
in personality
incoming trajectory
jump on carry
kenova
Kinemacolor
Kinganga
lalo
loan for exchange
Lonacol
Microsoft Wallet
modulation-noise improvement
multiprocessor
N-nltrosodimethylamine
oberea shimomurai
odd nitrogen
optical fiber radiation protection
order of magnitude of oil revenues
postoperative tetanus
pre-visualize
prediagenesis
preshrunk
probability of selection
propyl sulfhydrate
quantization restorer
radio position line
ramus nasalis (n. infra orbitalis)
road broom
roll springing
Santa Marta Mountains
separate solution method
septuagints
shoeboxfuls
short coverings
solder clad copper
source introduction method
sprawleth
suction trap
sulpharsenate
sumra
supply main
teratogentic
trimethyleneglycol
turns-insulating
Twingi
typewriter with constant pitch
underclay
vegetarianism
verruciform xanthoma
vinyl ester resin
warmblooded animal
worm reduction gear