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
absinthe
anabatic winds
arcarrester
be in the same boat
bisseling
blastopsammite
borchgraves
brake plates
break ... parole
butter pies
C.B.S.
cadastral map
Carex arisanensis
cargotainer
chemical engineering mathematics
cleaning of coal energy
cock fighting
conferta
consention
critical load current
current direction
cybertherapist
data flow monitor
day jessamines
defocus-focus mode
develop an affinity for sth.
diaion
dihydroxydihydrobenzopyrenes
disobliging
edematous exostosis
effective power
electronic tacheometer
enterobacteriotherapy
etamin
Euphorbia pallasii
facultative quadrupeds
fan-light
fibre microtexture
ficoidal
flighted
forced lubricgtion
formulatable
Gardneria multiflora
genossenschaft
gentlemancommoner
genus lomatias
gib headed bolt
glucosinate
grape seed oil
haemangioblastoma
headscarved
hummocked ice
ijtihad
Image and Scanner Interface Specification
indentation hardness
intended voyage
kalialaskite porphyry
Land Wursten
landscaped garden
Mach number calibration
magistrates' court
magnetic fluid bearing
mathematical model of soil erosion
mechanically refrigerated wagon
mechanostabilities
medicinal tolerance
Memorandum and Articles of Association
monofilament
mozarts
N/P ratio
Name Law
neuroepithelial
Oosterwolde
Persac
plica basalis
polar motion
portophlebography
procedures of new product development
raise to
reader-in-the-text
republics of nicaragua
River Hills
round guide
Rugby League
run a tight ship
Sheas
single cross hybrid
sociology of arts and literature
sodium nitroprusside
source transfer
spectral imaging technique
split stitch
sub-critical treatment
sulci nervi spinalis
sweat-house
table-top easel
textile auxiliaries
timmins
tunhuang studies
upper deck panel
weighted signal-to-noise ratio
widemouth