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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airborne sound transmission
al gores
aleye
Almosd
aluminum foils
anodal hyperpolarization
Araracuara
artful pleadings
associated principal bundle
astes
asymptotic period technique
berent
Borthwickia trifoliata
brogan
burrowing bugs
carthew
cheer somebody on
chill ring
cluck
configuration design
congenital arthrogryposis
contact erosion
contro-
convex surface (or dorso-lateral surface)
corn starches
crosspoint matrix switching
curariform
dipodic
disposal rate
dry promotion
enterprise groups
experimental genetics
fault tolerant design
Federal program of price support
fettering
fighter engagement zone
fill conveyer
film distillation apparatus
First Viscount Nuffield
flux cored wire
foil flap
gear-hobbing machine
greesly
Guienne
Hadersdorf
headquartered
hydrocarbon water gas
impeccance
Jack Mormon
kiso odori (japan)
Kululu
labour hoarding
laith-
leucodepleted
liquid level regulator
manometer-tipped cardiac catheters
marzipanning
messageboards
microprocessor unit
musalaha
n-evaluation problem
nautical inventory
Neisseria reniformis
ordinal recursion
organization pattern
party bureaucracy
pectin methylesterase
pore-making agent
private telephone
pseudo adsorption
Pternopetalum
Puccinellia florida
Radojevo
rate of temperature drop
reclaimed asphalt mixture
remind someone of
research and development expenditures
rose-colour
sales of property
santirs
sforzandos
sidereal universe
signal repeater box
skittle pin
slant face
snake bend
soliciting votes
soup spoon
spinelle
sqush
steel cable wheel
strand losses
stuprating
synclinal stratum
teleology
third trimester
to bawl about
transverse bow propulsion
uniform current density
unmachined surface
Valetan
wasp venom