时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(九)月


英语课

1. The top NATO commander in Afghanistan is confirming that some Afghan civilians 1 were among the casualties of a US fighter air attack. As many as 70 people were killed in Friday's strike. There are fears this could further alienate 2 Afghans from coalition 3 forces.


 2. Fire crews in California say the blaze burning north of Los Angeles is about 50% contained. So far, the arson-caused blaze has claimed lives of two firefighters. It's scorched 4 nearly 242 square miles.


 3. Two of the biggest anti-American world leaders have gone together for a two-day meeting. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in Iran where he was greeted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Chavez is on a six-nation tour that includes stops in Russia and Syria.


 4. The ocean has just got a little more crowded. These baby turtles were hatched this week in the Florida Keys. And a camera there caught their first tentative steps as they waddled 5 to the ocean.



平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
vt.使疏远,离间;转让(财产等)
  • His attempts to alienate the two friends failed because they had complete faith.他离间那两个朋友的企图失败了,因为他们彼此完全信任。
  • We'd better not alienate ourselves from the colleagues.我们最好还是不要与同事们疏远。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
烧焦,烤焦( scorch的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(植物)枯萎,把…晒枯; 高速行驶; 枯焦
  • I scorched my dress when I was ironing it. 我把自己的连衣裙熨焦了。
  • The hot iron scorched the tablecloth. 热熨斗把桌布烫焦了。
v.(像鸭子一样)摇摇摆摆地走( waddle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • A family of ducks waddled along the river bank. 一群鸭子沿河岸摇摇摆摆地走。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The stout old man waddled across the road. 那肥胖的老人一跩一跩地穿过马路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
a far fetch
a nail in sb's/sth's coffin
absits
Academy Award
acoelomate organism
Adjéna
advance print
alphanumerically
anser fabalis middendorffii
Arpadites
auerswald
authoring program
BaSO4
becke method
bignews
bushbaby
c.p.l.
carophyllin
catoria olivescens
cayugas
Chipyong
closed circuit television(cctv)
coated catalyst
cutlery steel
dametine
denticare
Drawa
economisation
ectethmoid cartilage
eddy-current speed indicator
epithelial diaphragm
feevee
Fermat's equation
flameless burner
flyingdisk printer
formation fluid sampler
fretted upland
gambles
gatnon
genodeme
glimmerton
glycinate
hammer sth out
Hassunab
heavy insulation
hyaloid membrane
hyperchromatic macrocythemia
hypnoleptic state
informix-sql
legal nexus
leukocytosis-promoting fsctors
limiting temperature
local syndication
logic AND circuit
long jumper
machine check and program check
meteorological datum plane
Methocel
mode pushing effect
neuropsychologist
No-methemogtobin
Omsukchanskiy Rayon
patience is a plaster for all sores
PFOR (parallel FORTRAN)
phastron
plantain lily
play into hands
polyembryonia
pornographists
pressure regulator valve pin
public security sector
radius (slewing)
refuse conveying
renewable resources
Rhodenic
rigney
rotating flange
saccharogalactorrhea
scabies crustosa
scientific research management
scrofulous pannus
semi-successive brazing furnace
set forward scale
shaker foal
short precision
sialias
sinusoidal oscillation
slippery
stay sb.'s stomach
subrings
suspension of execution
suturae limbosa
theory-laden data
throw oneself at
tip jet
toles
total of longest consecutive jobs
tyre-chain repairing pliers
Utlängan
ventilation scheme
Wapustagamau, L.
wild-and-woolly