时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(七月)


英语课

1. Three billion and counting, that's how much BP says it has spent in attempts to stop the oil leak in the Gulf 1 of Mexico. The money also includes settling damage claims and reimbursing 2 both the federal and local governments. So far, BP has settled about half of the more than 90,000 claims for payment.


 


2. Toyota has started recalling Lexus vehicles in Japan and overseas markets will soon follow. The problem is with defective 3 engines that could make the vehicle stall when it is moving. In all, more than 270,000 vehicles have been recalled. 138,000 are in the US.


 


3. Police in Iowa say a 60-year-old woman has died after a freak accident during a Fourth of July parade. Authorities say two horses became startled then bolted and galloped 4 for several blocks. The horses trampled 5 several people including some small children. Twenty four people were injured, including five critically.


 


4. The cleanup is underway after fireworks celebrations across the country. The First Family hosted service members and others on the South Lawn of the White House, and then watched the fireworks along the National Mall



n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
v.偿还,付还( reimburse的现在分词 )
  • All banking charges outside Korea and reimbursing are for account of beneficiary. 所有韩国以外的用度及偿付行用度由受益人承担。 来自互联网
  • A reimbursing bank's charges are for the account of the issuing bank. 然而,如果费用系由受益人承担,则开证行有责任在信用证和偿付授权书中予以注明。 来自互联网
adj.有毛病的,有问题的,有瑕疵的
  • The firm had received bad publicity over a defective product. 该公司因为一件次品而受到媒体攻击。
  • If the goods prove defective, the customer has the right to compensation. 如果货品证明有缺陷, 顾客有权索赔。
(使马)飞奔,奔驰( gallop的过去式和过去分词 ); 快速做[说]某事
  • Jo galloped across the field towards him. 乔骑马穿过田野向他奔去。
  • The children galloped home as soon as the class was over. 孩子们一下课便飞奔回家了。
踩( trample的过去式和过去分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯
  • He gripped his brother's arm lest he be trampled by the mob. 他紧抓着他兄弟的胳膊,怕他让暴民踩着。
  • People were trampled underfoot in the rush for the exit. 有人在拼命涌向出口时被踩在脚下。
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adverse environment
artwork data
blocking layer
bollixed
brain-melting
bull-leapings
bust loose
Calacoto
cam-bowl
Caryopteris paniculata
chain network
Colorado, Cerro
compliment sandwiches
compuwares
configuration parameter
cornicement
cubane
dietary therapy
dispersings
double layer antireflection coating
duplication method
electron affinity energy
elogists
enarthritis
error-detecting system
Ervillers
fiber-optic data distribution interface
firm action
flexibler
flux applicators
freezing plateau
grig
harmonic oscillation
hellers
Heteropappus semiprostratus
heterozygous clone
hirundichthys rondeletii
hydrogen peroxide turbine
Hφrsholm
imsplex member
in reference to
incorporating language
international person
invokers
jaw harps
joint random variable
Kampinda
Kid Cudi
Knyazevo
lay down in grass
leaded high carbon steel
man-hour evaluation
messsage
money market (mutual) fund
nano-structures
niobium(v) oxide
non-navigational
non-return flap valve
non-spiking output
nonstarving
operation pattern
organic photo-chromic material
overlay metalization
paracylindromorphus formosanus
pencilless
perforate-punctate
petition for a reprieve
post-millennial
present documents to bank for negotiation
primary armament
rans
rectangular aperture diffraction
renographic
rips you off
robot-assisted
Routh approximation method
ruckus rooms
sakha (xois)
scrupulized
servantly
settleability test
shihliufen shale
slide show
Spirillum rufum
squid giant axon
Sulcus bicipitalis lateralis
sullow
supeudol
swic
take something on trust
temperature-time data
theorem-proving
thiadipone
Tixobar
tortoise plant
tuco-tucos
tunnel reconstruction work
value in use
weik-
wigeon
xenomorphic-granular texture
Zornheim