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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acid-head
adiabatic heating
administrative omission
adstringens
aeroplane nose
agar-agars
AND-OR-NOT gate
anti-risk ability
appreciate against other currencies
Arnold Schoenberg
automaker
ballroom-dancing
bony scale (or teleost scale)
Castelo, Pta.do
colorimetric titration
compound animals
condensate temperature
crystalline calcium carbonate
design by committee
double v belt
dresslar
dvapara yuga
Dybulia
El Cano
electron-volts
envelopers
Euspiran
exormia
fibre optic phase modulator
foreign ship
freight operation at destination station
gammonings
genus iriss
Gettysburg Seamount
gunn (diode) source
Gyratory Crushers
hakam
hastivity
high resolution diffraction attachment
hydrangea
imperfect adhesion
instruction bus
invendible
king nuts
kolendas (poland)
lady elliot i.
lv.
machine-printed
mean entropy per character
Mesolithic Age
mixed tax
multiplexor
n-dimensional affine space
non-matchings
non-profit company
Nufud
paddle-wheels
panda bears
permeabilities
Petalolithus
petroleum refining capacity
Pfeiffer's reaction
pharmaceutical purity
pirated river
polarization nuclear physics
print buffers
program and data integrity potection
promwear
Psoralea corylifolia
pubic louse
radiant absorptance
rebound separator
reducible polynomial
reference template
reversed air classifier
Samulun, Pulau
save against a rainy day
scutching room
seinfeld
self reading instrument
sextennially
shipment on order
smelite (kaolinite)
solley
sonogram
straw fiber
stress galvanometer
studentized augmented range
tail-rope system
textureless
The ball is in someone's court.
titty fuck
trainband
Unit Protection
up-and-down test
ureteroste(g)nosis
urged on
v curve
wedderburns
Welega Kifle Hager
within the required time