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。
标签: 美联社新闻 AP
学英语单词
aclonifen
adjacent vertex
aerospace-industry
allocation of frequency band
allocation of storage
antiaggregation
Ashgillian Age
automatic brightness control
B-roads
Bakau, P.
basimaxilla
black walnut oil
boatslip
bodekyn
cactaceous
cardboard wax
cautery snare
cheque-books
chimney base
Chimonobambusa pachystachys
china bark
chromatographic spectrum
Ciudad Madero
clay-pigeon
cobalt acetate
complement inhibition test
de-aspirate
deadpans
dispute the validity of a document
dry-bone (ore)
dry-volume measurement
echinatin
erythem scarlatiniforme
fatigue strength under oscillation stresses
filiberto
fistfighter
five-core
fueling bowl
gamma flux density monitor
Gmelina
Goodyera foliosa
Gosso
grandisol
grating selected resonator
health-boosting
horizontal cylinder dryer
hydrophilic finish
hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyl transferase deficiency
identifier list
incorrect subsequent spelling
indeterminateform
individual domain
intermediate line filter
linearisation
link capacity
lipoid histiocytoma
mallee scrub
Management Information Services
marrison
Maugrabin
Mekatina
metrotextual
ml threads
mobile monitoring station
NSD (network status display)
nursle
nylonss
orthovanadate
outcastes
oxide-induced stress
paratrooper fracture
penta portion
pivotings
pot investigation
precursor conversion
prefabricated vessel
prefixal meaning
processing application
psychedelic soul
quartz crystals
random phase error of aperture
Rothschild's sign
scammonies
scrubbing atmospheric
Semiautomatic Rifle
sigrids
silk socks
Sinyaya
spiffiness
square piano
standard current generator
subdiagrams
successor activity
tank-type hydraulic classifier
telemetry implement plan
temper screws
terry's test
three layers
time for protest
tumble down the sink
while ... away
zucre