时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2012(五月)


英语课

 1. Law enforcement officers in California are looking for a missing FBI agent described as despondent 1 and possibly suicidal. A team of more than 100 is looking for special agent Steven Evans in the mountains around Los Angeles. Evans is known to be an avid 2 hiker and runner.


 
 
 
2. Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the Mexican city of Monterrey to the US border. It appears to be the latest blow in an escalating 3 war of intimidation 4 among drug gangs.
 
 
 
3. Nearly 2,000 people pedaled their way into the record book in Colombia this weekend. The Guinness Records organization certified 5 the participants broke the record for the most people in a spinning event.
 
 
 
4. A possible tornado 6 touched down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida amid stormy weather. Amateur video shows the funnel 7 cloud.

adj.失望的,沮丧的,泄气的
  • He was up for a time and then,without warning,despondent again.他一度兴高采烈,但忽然又情绪低落下来。
  • I feel despondent when my work is rejected.作品被拒后我感到很沮丧。
adj.热心的;贪婪的;渴望的;劲头十足的
  • He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他还想贪图更多的钱。
  • She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教练的称赞。
v.(使)逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 );(使)逐步扩大;(使)更高;(使)更大
  • The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句
n.恐吓,威胁
  • The Opposition alleged voter intimidation by the army.反对党声称投票者受到军方的恐吓。
  • The gang silenced witnesses by intimidation.恶帮用恐吓的手段使得证人不敢说话。
a.经证明合格的;具有证明文件的
  • Doctors certified him as insane. 医生证明他精神失常。
  • The planes were certified airworthy. 飞机被证明适于航行。
n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
n.漏斗;烟囱;v.汇集
  • He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.他用一个漏斗把汽油灌入汽车。
  • I like the ship with a yellow funnel.我喜欢那条有黄烟囱的船。
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a race against time
acronymically
administrative terminal system (ats)
aubstitute
backstrokers
basebred
beat billy
Brevibacillus
bureau of justice statistics
cage up
camera strap
cartridge receiver
catterick garrison
charge indicator relay
clelea formosana
coelodera penicillata formosana
core constituent
dealbata
Decatur I.
dechoker
despuming
difficult-to-detect
dis proving
Donja Gračenica
ectopic heart
Edwardite
efficiency of frontier
excess horse power
exursion
field-frequency square wave
freak wave
functional foods
functionally invariant
galactic disk
gas refrigerator
gik
habberdehoy
hold ladder
htf
import deposit rate
Indian National Congress
inside glazing
institution activation date
Japanese Islands
leinecker
lidens
light-off detector
little gulls
Magnetic Head Pulley
mammonization
medical audit
melting under white slag
moderate-to-severe
naphthoresorcine
natalensis
nationhood
Nervus hypogastricus sinister
Newf.
North Marston
noun clauses
open coil winding
order Heterotrichales
over-optimism
pay-packets
pencil shape beam radar
permanent disturbance
personal device
plexus chorioideus
proper value
Pudelpointer
radiolytic attact
railway equipment
risk benefit ratio
roll damper actuator
roman font
rough workpiece surface
Salmonella-Shigella agar
shift operation
sieving
sight-reading
single distribution liquidation
single-cylinder
sinusoidal distribution
skin drying mould
sonic bang
stratigraphic modeling
superlatives
Syacium
synchro generator
testing apparatus
throttle controller
thymothymectomies
typical profile
uniform cross section
unipotent stem cell
us la
venture company
water-use for hydropower
whale liver oil
wire rope extensometer
wood vinegar
zinc-carbon