时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(二)月


英语课

1. It's the chaos 1 after the storm. Rescue crews across the South are picking through the debris 2 left by a cluster of tornados 3. At least 50 people have been reported dead and neighborhoods leveled in five states.


2. John McCain is calling for all Conservatives to join his bandwagon. The maverick 4 Republican has been facing some harsh rhetoric 5 from the far-right. But following his wins on Super Tuesday, he says it's time for everyone in the GOP to unite.


3. The space shuttle Atlantis is ready for its big trip. It's supposed to take off tomorrow and carry a new science lab to the International Space Station. Thunderstorms, though, could keep it on the ground.


4. The Year of the Rat is starting up with a bang. The Chinese New Year begins today. In Beijing, that calls for a night of fireworks, dancing and partying.


 



n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
  • They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网
adj.特立独行的;不遵守传统的;n.持异议者,自行其是者
  • He's a maverick.He has his own way of thinking about things.他是个特异独行的人。对事情有自己的看法。
  • You're a maverick and you'll try anything.你是个爱自行其是的人,样样事情都要尝试一下。
n.修辞学,浮夸之言语
  • Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗?
  • Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后,他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
学英语单词
Allantosoma
allergic contact urticaria
amphiarthroses
antacidine
antennarias
anti-fungal
astronomical transit
Atactopora
atomic safety and licensing appeal boards
behavio(u)r sociology
bit level linear recurrence
capriccioso
cella
chevilles
CMPS
cold cathode counter
cold meats
commend sth to sb's care
commutative element
complete review of all transactions
compressed air pipe line
convolute lamination
copyright page
cryptodires
daguerreotypic
desperate straitss
dewikify
dimethyltryptamines
dipchick
dipole diffusion
direct dialing system
disordering
driving cab
dye pack
ecto-ATPases
estuarine geomorphology
exonym
fibrinolytic
free radical induced catalysis
froggish
fuse-disconnector
group method
hyphen drop
ice sherbet
impulse blades
indirect question
International Working man's Association
Iris pandurata
Jorjan, Sea of
Leonidas
maceoin
materiel collecting point
needs-assessment
Niatross
office productivity
oil seal lip
okies
open one's eyes to
optical-beam splitting
oxide-(fuelled)breeder
parenchymatous degeneration
peace feeler
pediatric dermatology
periplastronal
physico-theology
plonky
powder magazine
power circuitry
preimagined
President Harding
primary urinary duct
quick return motion
rapid flow
reflected power
repraise
sea-weary
secondary depot
seeth
shaping deconvolution
shed room
sipcar
spectrocolorimetry
spinoidal
spongy bone
steam by-pass
sublimation heat
substandard meter
sullenberger
surface street
swiveling mechanism
TCDF (tandem compound doubleflow)
television camera lens
thinking twice
thundercunt
tidi
touch bases
tracing out
Trichomycteridae
weather avoidance radar
when-issued stock
xenomyza vitripennis