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
2,4-dichlorophenol
acid-proofing alkaliproofing coating
adsorption-desorption
advice of transfer of letter of credit
aerobiologically
Albese
aluminium spirit level
amended shipping instructions
Anse-a-Veau
anticorrosive paint
Antwerp Mannerists
arm revolving gear
astern parts
automatic retailing
biopalina
built - in motor
bullo r.
bump caps
Bussière-Dunoise
capitalist society
ceilidhs
centrotus
children of the same venter
coastal patrol boat
cochlea
control element
control of desert
Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims
cradleboard
cyclopiazonates
Differential Aptitude Test
distenant
dummy record
earloops
electric annealing furnace
emergency alarm signal
erio fast brilliant fuchsine
expansion joint of rail
first-order system
fish-tail end
fixed back beam
fixed pressure operation
fractional excretion of filtrated sodium
general election campaign
genus Denisonia
God Bless America
gotten to know
green shell bean
hall church
have one's legs under someone's mahogany
hydraulic rock breaker
Impatiens desmantha
intihuatanas
jackplane
jant
khichari
khufus
kosmo
later that day
legal copy
leguaans
light switch toggle
loop anchorage
market class and greads
michonneau
multi drill
new crop
no blocking
notch bar
O'Beirne's tube
Office XP
oil dip rod
out of sort
pilliewinkes
pop quiz
practolol
public security officer
Qāsh
radiates
resistanceless
running in wear
salableness
seawitch
shellac flakes
slickensided
spatial aggregation
steam generation
step-coverage
stress of soil moisture
suker rod pumping equipment
synchro coupling
synergistic
tewell
thermosphere
thick walled cylinder
tower dryer
turn traitor
unox
unpolluting
unteem
were-wolves
woodworms