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
-induced
ambonoclast
Aminosyn-HBC
anticoincidence counter
australes
basking-shark
beta-naphthols
buoyant demand
by and by
cell
chemical feeding
circumferential acoustilog
city-centre
comet of Jupiter family
commodity money
conditional statement in a macrodefinition
convallamarin
coplanar vector
Crescormon
data provider
de-authorise
difficult load
direct-coupled exciter
DNA-likeRNA
drawing of temper
drubbing
Einthoven, Willem
electronic instrument
endopenia
Eperheide
express'd
finifs
franchise stamp
gari pallida
give something to pledge
Goz-Beïda
Guyon's method
haciendo
haimhald
hair colorings
hair colour
Hand loading
Haversian system
Helenopolypus
hydraulic-control valve
ice prevention
immeasurability
impulse circuit-breaker
inadequate housing
inishbofins
initial tension
internal recycle
Koko, I.
linear combination of atomic orbitals
living substance
main speed reduction box
matzel
mendung
metada
microspherulites
mobile experience
Mont-Louis
morph-ratio cline (huxley 1955)
moving range
nemechek
nervi saphenus
Ngo Quyen
nonferrous vessel
optical diagnosis
outflow lake
paan
paraffin cutter
party horns
plank length
power frequency induction furnace transformer
priapulid
quality forging
regularly
reisen
right angle three way valve
rodealin
same record area clause
small ice
spandrel panel
specialton
step back welding
stibiotantalite
structural works
substantia opaca
sum aggregate
surgiology
sweit
temperature-moisture graph
thermal drain
tokhes
true digestible energy
trumont
twinned plate martensite
variable
VDT radiation
XLP
zephyrlike