时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2012(三月)


英语课

 1. President Barack Obama is swinging back at Republicans on gas prices. He says campaign rhetoric 1 demanding more drilling is the bumper 2 sticker, not a longterm solution to the nation's energy situation. 


 
 
 
2. Israel pounded Gaza for the second day in a row Saturday, trading air strikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants 3, killing 4 15 of them. It's the deadest Gaza violence in more than a year, and shows no sign of abating 5
 
 
 
3. Mourners have been gathering 6 in Japan to mark the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami 7 that devastated 8 the country. Nearly 19,000 people were killed after it set off the worst nuclear crisis in years. 
 
 
 
4. It was a day at the beach of Brazil for Britain's Prince Harry 9. He played rugby and volleyball with children and professional athletes in Rio de Janeiro, delighting crowds of onlookers 10.

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。
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
减少( abate的现在分词 ); 减去; 降价; 撤消(诉讼)
  • The storm showed no signs of abating. 暴风雨没有减弱的迹象。
  • The recent public anxiety about this issue may now be abating. 近来公众对这个问题的焦虑心情现在也许正在缓和下来。
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
  • The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
  • His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
n.旁观者,观看者( onlooker的名词复数 )
  • A crowd of onlookers gathered at the scene of the crash. 在撞车地点聚集了一大群围观者。
  • The onlookers stood at a respectful distance. 旁观者站在一定的距离之外,以示尊敬。
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a dead pan
absorptive phase
administration-sponsored
Afafi
armijos
as a parrot
auxiliary gap
avoiding style
Bardsea Bank
bigoted
black schist
blue-riband
bound mode
Breuberg-Neustadt
bullock
bully-head
carpet herb
check canvas
chin music
circumpolar zone
coIopuncture
concrete tubular pile
consulted
Craigenputtock
data access control language
data definition statement
dermatoconjunctivitis
Diavdricin
dictionarians
direct priming
displacency
exchange equilibrium
favonious
flux of magnetic induction
forslacked
freight account
genus erigerons
glutamatergic
grandparents
gyria
hand plane
hieraciifolium
input/output queue forward pointer
intercalatus nucleus
iron(iii) azide
Jongian
keroctasis
ketenide
Kigwa
land owner
lead hydrogen phosphite
like sardines
lock unt
module system
Nifedin
nile crocodiles
one-gene-one-function hypothesis
organic contaminants
overhead travel(l)ing crane
oxpecker
pad applicator
parameter tag
phase locking technique
Piatra Olt
praises
qualification of attachment procedure
quintupliveined
relative total charge
Remsed
rigid hook
river-sand
rootstock of a cane stool
Santa Elena Peninsula
Schutzstaffel
sedimentation diameter
separation of variables
shared operating system
shirbet
shuts-off
sodio-acetoacetic ester
sodium estrone sulfate
sodium hydroxide burn
station visual zone
stiberite (ulexite)
Swida walteri
tea spoonful
tellurians
thenar space
thyrocytes
topers
Toumtouma
Twifics
ucbs
undeposable
unjudgmentally
velocity-distance lag
venerant
wasl
wet lamination
Ybbs
ylium ion
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