时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(一月)


英语课

1. President Barack Obama heads to Tucson today to attend a memorial service for the victims of Saturday's deadly rampage. Thousands are expected to attend the public memorial at the University of Arizona's basketball arena 1. Six people were killed in the shooting. Fourteen others including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords were injured.


 


2. Another round of flight cancellations are expected today as a storm system dumps snow on New York City and New England. The storm is expected bring as much as a foot of snow in some spots. The same storm system has already wreaked 2 havoc 3 throughout the southeast.


 


3. The death toll 4 from a flash flood in northeastern Australia has now gone up to twelve. A giant wall of water prompted by a sudden storm roared through a valley in Queensland Monday. The flooding, which started in November, now covers an area lager than Germany and France combined.


 


4. Michael Jackson's personal physician will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop star. Tuesday the judge in the case ordered Doctor Conrad Murray to stand trial following a six-day preliminary hearing. Murray has pleaded not guilty. He could face four years in prison if convicted.



n.竞技场,运动场所;竞争场所,舞台
  • She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
  • He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。
诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city. 地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • They have wreaked dreadful havoc among the wildlife by shooting and trapping. 他们射杀和诱捕野生动物,造成了严重的破坏。
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。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
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absolute deflection of vertical
accelerated at growing rate
arecae semen
asianization
ATC
Birmingham platina
blanking plate
charity property
cholecalciferols
Cladium chinense
closed-loop regulation
commingled turnings
composite metal plastic pipe
cyst of cervix
defiances
diisopropylamine
drag flights
drawing for approval
druglords
electrolytic powder processing
espionages
etuis
exhaust-valve
farm drainage
genus hygrotramas
glossier
gragh of function
grain-boundary segregation
green flower
grigolini
have a ready tongue
heat of subcooling
high-efficient wool detergent
high-frequency confinement
home location register
immunologic arrest
in each case
ingrainings
initial public offer
integrating vibrometer
interlobuiar emphysema
jotting
lutropin
magnetic reconnection
Malean
markoff processes
metallic toning
methylocholine
microregulated
negative sequence short circuit current
nonmalformed
normative grammar
oblique cut
organosilicon
paternoite
Petzval sum
phase correlated clock
poda
poikilogranoblastic
poikilotopic
projected cut-off
protected zone
Psarian
quippe
reculed
relinked
Saint-Simonianism
sanctiloge
sand-bagged
scutellospora calospora
sea-water distillator
shaft equipment
shank with driving slot
shuus
Siberianists
similar operating condition
siphonaria atra
slack course
space life science
special memory
spectragraphicss
steel grit
stepping-mode
surface electrolytic marking machine
surface finish measuring device
tab-separated values
tape H pulse
thermal diffusion column
titanium alloy
Trigogine
trip slack pawl
turbine ship
tyrannosaurine
umbrella-group
Unimicina
valevene
vallow deer
vertical cutting angle
white hands
yielding capacity
yttrocrasite-(Y)
Zygophyllum