时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2008年


英语课

Three years ago today, hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf 1 shore, creating unprecedented 2 damage. Now fears that Tropical Storm Gustav could be eyeing the same general region. Currently an evacuation order is not in effect for New Orleans. But Mayor Ray Nagin says one could be in place as early as Saturday.


 


“Also I emphasize them, everyone on the west bank, this storm is different than Katrina, it is coming in a different path, and it will probably put more stress and strain on the levees on the west bank and therefore there’s significantly more risk and don't feel comfortable because you’ve got through Katrina that you survived the big one and you’re invincible 3. That is not the case, this is a different storm. ”


 


Right now the storm is leaving Jamaica at 8 miles per hour. It has sustained winds of 65 miles per hour. By Saturday it is expected it will be centered over western Cuba. Already it’s done extensive damage. More than 60 deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are blamed on the storm, mostly due to flooding and landslides 4. As Gustav moves toward the US coast, federal officials are gearing up. The National Guard is ready in some areas.


 


“I hope that you recognize, you know particularly those you were here during Katrina, er…what’s happening here and what, what did not happen during Katrina. Er…What you’re seeing is a, is a culture change, er…not only here but really across this country, a changing FEMA from a reactive organization to a proactive organization, but not just us, also the state government and the local government. ”


 


Governors in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have already declared state of emergency. And oil prices have risen in recent days because of fears of the storm. Forecasters say when Gustav makes landfall along the US coast. It could be as a Category-3 storm.


 


Rita Foley, the Associated Press.


 



1 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 unprecedented
adj.无前例的,新奇的
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
3 invincible
adj.不可征服的,难以制服的
  • This football team was once reputed to be invincible.这支足球队曾被誉为无敌的劲旅。
  • The workers are invincible as long as they hold together.只要工人团结一致,他们就是不可战胜的。
4 landslides
山崩( landslide的名词复数 ); (山坡、悬崖等的)崩塌; 滑坡; (竞选中)一方选票占压倒性多数
  • Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
  • The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。
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absolute catalog
absolute speed drop
Amqui
Apium graveolens L. var. rapaceum DC.
aqmds
auxiliary traction machine
baksheeshed
bear the bell
berloque
betake
breathing exercise
by stealth
charge-transfer device
chronic recurrent appendicitis
circular bore
combustibility test
common seals
comptrollers general
computer-aided manufacturing system
Cuxwold
cyclindole
dactylium alpiniae
daughtery
decayablest
digital character generator
Dmitrovskiy Rayon
drifting automatic radio-meteorological system
drum type shears
Eblis
elastic work schedule system
equilux
eristalinus lugens
fade-in fade-out device
free-ports
full-storage system
genus coragypss
genus corallorhizas
genus phyllocladuss
give them a hand
Graptemys
grid lines device
hexosemonophosphate shunt
high definition camera
Hyades Group
hydrodynamic moment
imbabura
inconstancy
inverted vee
irregular rondo
lacker
Lahemaarahvuspark
Liparis kwangtungensis
little-endian
marketing association
maximum likelihood decision rule
mcclatchy
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millimho
minimum admissible dimension
molk
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novacek
open and closed shelter deck ship
operational failure
overcultures
Ponkuto-san
raise doubts
response prevention
rolling characteristic
rubra polycythemia
salmiana
scanlated
sechelle
semiautos
seventeen-year-old
silver storm
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split off from sb
stir a bath
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storytime
stranguria due to disturbance of qi
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top echelon
toxamin
Transcaucasia
transfer fund
truxene
ultramarine blue
unclaimable
univariate optimum interpolation
unsoaped
urology in childhood
uterus incadiformis
vacillation
Vagay
valve lightening arrester
vasotropic
vibration screen
virtual ampere-turn
wind-borne load