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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adjusted liabilities
analysis of sales
annuitants
ASON
axis of ordinate
battery clip
beer-bottles
bicycle exercise test
blaundish
brake-power
chloroleucite
clam dips
commissive mood
committed purchasing power
community public health system
control variation sensibility
Cosmos bipinnatus
dicranocephalus yui yui
direct current, dc
direction of relative movement
drinkathons
Dupuytren contracture
electronic computing machine
endolemma
equicontinuous semi-group
estate-bottling
explosive dispersion
extended digit
floralize
forex action
functional period
Gayer tests
gender-differences
Get your teeth into
girls-only
globous
glottalized
hand sampling method
hanvey
hierarchical decomposition
hierarchy management
house call
huah
hydrogen pressure gauge
IBM compatible
ieptomeningitis sarcomatous
infinite chain
Ishioka
Javanization
johann christoph friedrich von schillers
katelysia japonica
kernel maturity
Kujama
L-plates
laissez-faireism
laminated film used in preservation packaging
leporids
Lisafa
locking segment
Lomatogoniopsis ovatifolia
Los Esclavos, R.
lotus eating
loxoconcha chanjanga
loxocorniculum tominga
mail-box rule
microbiological safety
montanez
motorized variac
naphthenic solvent
Opegraphaceae
parkison's law
pellaea smithii c.chr.
phopholipid layer
pneumatic adder-subtractor
portable compiler
pre employment training
projection control radar (pcr)
purulent pleurisy
rabbit brushes
Rabi
racemomycin
ralts
reverse timing
Rishiri-to
scribble down
seckill
self-feed conveyer
silk batiste
simple sentence
SLMIT
sorbonnes
speed-sensing device
syllogiser
symmetrical multiprocessing
temporally homogeneous process
ttm
vapor-phase reator
virtualizers
vogads
wire spinner
zero-power aberration
zj