时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

This is May 8th, thus   the 16 days since Sean Hannity volunteered to be waterboarded for a military families’ charity, thus 15 days since I offered to donate $1000 per second that he lasted, thus 14 days during which Sean Hannity has suffered the consequences of reneging on his promise. Let’s play Oddball.


 


To begin with a pretty scary scene outside an office building in St Paulo, Brazil. Thankfully, nobody got hurt on Wednesday when high winds caused the window-washing platform with two men inside it to swing violently. Office workers in the building watched in amazement 1 as an onlooker 2 in an adjacent building shot this footage. The men in the bucket tried grabbing onto the building to just slow their momentum 3 and the pendulum 4 effect going on. The platform eventually did slow down, sufficiently 5 for the men to crawl out and through an open and still dirty window, and left a few streaks 6.


 


Finally in Miami, Florida where God has appeared on some fried salami, not an image of God, mind you, the word. This video is from CBS’s Miami affiliate 7 WFOR. Nancy Simo says she’s about ready to plate the three salami slices when she turned over the first piece and saw the letter G then an O and finally a D in that order. Could have gone DOG. D could have been an O, would have made her discovery GOO, but Nancy has faith, took faith that the breakfast meat is a sign. She may consider selling her salami on Ebay, first there was the word, and the word was salami.




 



1 amazement
n.惊奇,惊讶
  • All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
  • He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。
2 onlooker
n.旁观者,观众
  • A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching.少数几个旁观者站在现场观看。
  • One onlooker had to be restrained by police.一个旁观者遭到了警察的制止。
3 momentum
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
4 pendulum
n.摆,钟摆
  • The pendulum swung slowly to and fro.钟摆在慢慢地来回摆动。
  • He accidentally found that the desk clock did not swing its pendulum.他无意中发现座钟不摇摆了。
5 sufficiently
adv.足够地,充分地
  • It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
  • The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。
6 streaks
n.(与周围有所不同的)条纹( streak的名词复数 );(通常指不好的)特征(倾向);(不断经历成功或失败的)一段时期v.快速移动( streak的第三人称单数 );使布满条纹
  • streaks of grey in her hair 她头上的绺绺白发
  • Bacon has streaks of fat and streaks of lean. 咸肉中有几层肥的和几层瘦的。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
7 affiliate
vt.使隶(附)属于;n.附属机构,分公司
  • Our New York company has an affiliate in Los Angeles.我们的纽约公司在洛杉矶有一个下属企业。
  • What is the difference between affiliate and regular membership?固定会员和附属会员之间的区别是什么?
学英语单词
-ibility
air-filleds
alkali-like
appropriation receipt
ara-fc
Automatix Inc.
be enthroned
benzimidazoyl
bit erasure probability
bruyse
Bursa musculi coracobrachialis
burying-ground
capilano
Cassiope
cefalosporin
chamber machine
chromosomal disease
cornucoquimba transversalis
Daniels County
date of acceptance
debenture loan
drills down
drum hook
Dubai-esque
emerges
eschynite
fast growth
festuca
Forlivian
free groundwater
free honing
frequency response testing
fused zirconia
hadaways
hammelose
heat-absorbing glass
high-porosity
Huckel's rule
Hymenophyllum
impaction of vitreous
inter-croppings
interpersonal correlation
jacquard drum
letterpress print coater
life values inventory
light conduits
Lightening a Ship when Ashore
long-range field
loudspeaker
maidenkin
matel
medidas
menopauses
messerschmidt
milo
Nail in the coffin
non parallelism
one-price policy
operational grade
palting
parotti
Physokermes piceae
predisposing factor
Primula concholoba
print zones
prosperity and depression
recit
reverse cylinder
Saddell Castle
second-order trigonal dipyramid
self winding watch
shining firmoss
single-syllable
slided
standing forme
stationary use
straight time
sub-parts
symbolic operating system
telemagmatic deposit
tell story
thallium bromide
thermal expansion instability
thorough scoundrel
thurots
thymolysin
traditional skills
transition count
twine fringe
Uffelmann's reagent
Umm Shalīl
universally accepted principle
unsaturation
uranous
vedantist
vegetable physiology
visual storage tube
wathier
wet mud brick
XXH
Zygophyllum jaxarticum