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
algal bank
appraisal of real estate
atrioventricular value
be the making of someone
belt drive unit
belt of totally
benzylhydantoins
bordelon
brake expander
bredesen
broaden your horizons
circular coil
claes oldenberg
Clareen
click
color and lustre of nail matrix
conjugate gradient method
cook-up rice
crankness
crosschecked
drug-smugglings
dunk in
eat one's cake and have it too
ego-ideal
eight times
engineering optics
environmental soil
epinephelus bleekeri
first in first out buffer
fixed toolwindow
floating-point multiplication
Flums
freshened
full-grown
give me the boot
give someone their cards
Green measure
grind rough
harbour fireboat
hemolytic disease of the newborn
high frequency choke
home made bread
horizontal blanking
hurdle effect
igorrote
infor
intraformational joint
inventory cost selection
Josias
junipers
Kubuntu
Le Masnau-Massuguiès
leaf cacti
Lloyd List
longitudinal tool post
marathe
mechanical pulping process
meiping
merthiolate-formaldehyde
Mii-tool
minor fourth
Morgagni's tubercles
nonfixed form
nostromo
oil less pump
on the trace of
paratitle
phasing signal
plasma display module
police sub-station
preparedness
pulse voltammetry
pyrimidinedione
ralston
rasterises
reglan
Restigouche
Sacked Friar
settle back to
sodium disulphate
sonar signal
sphaerulina
Steenrod squares
stringifies
suborder pachycephalosauruss
tanlings
teleasat (telecommunications satellite)
TNH
transformed programme
tutorial for instant java
uaa
valerianaceous
warehouse company
warm towards sb
warming channel for arresting bleeding
water pimpernels
wheel brake lever
wigo
x-ray non-destructive testing
yellowtail kingfish
zesh
zoccola