时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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 Cyclone 1 Yasi has been further downgraded to a category 3 storm, but has still left a trail of destruction in its wake. Mission Beach, Tully, Cardwell and Innisfail are among the worst-hit communities. Early reports coming out of Tully say the town has been devastated 2 with roofs torn from houses and power poles knocked over. Innisfail has also been badly hit. It was almost wiped out by Cyclone Larry five years ago. 


 
More than 170,000 properties across north Queensland have been plunged 3 into darkness. When Yasi crossed the coast near Mission Beach south of Innisfail early this morning, it was a category 5 storm. It's now heading inland towards Charters Towers and Georgetown with winds of up to 100km/h expected there.
 
And the other major story this morning is of course the situation in Egypt. The centre of Cairo has exploded into violence. Hundreds of people have been injured as anti-government protesters clashed with supporters of President Hosni Mubarak. Stones, bottles and petrol bombs have rained down on Cairo's main square as both sides fight each other. Security forces have done nothing to stop the fighting. The White House has condemned 5 the violence and is calling for restraint from all sides.
 
A huge storm has hit large parts of the United States. The wintry blast affected 6 30 states. The Midwest copped the brunt of the storm. Wild winds lashed 4 Chicago and the city was blanketed in around 42 centimetres of snow. More than 300,000 people lost power and thousands of airline passengers were stranded 7.

1 cyclone
n.旋风,龙卷风
  • An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
  • The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
2 devastated
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。
3 plunged
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
4 lashed
adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 );煽动;紧系;怒斥
  • The rain lashed at the windows. 雨点猛烈地打在窗户上。
  • The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy. 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 condemned
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
6 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
学英语单词
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accentuals
acid-refining tank
Aconitum fischeri
adulterizes
air gate bearing door
almost surely convergent
anaphylaetia
Apogee.
Astomatophorina
aurothiosulfate
Babylonian
balanced step
Bauda
blue foxes
Buxpune
case cord
Cassia mimosoides L.
claustrum gutturis
clothing lined board
comminuted fracture of olecranon
confederalist
consecutive sexuality
costly binding
cut methods
Depok
designer apartment
digital information service
dipalmitostearin
disappearance
double tension test
double wall box
doublebutted
dysoxidation
ease ahead
economic experiment
fascia subcutanea
fibular surface
foul up
freedom from molestation
giraldiana
gormy
grain unloading auger
gramarie
Hadsten
hardware test
have sth against sb
hepatoduodenal ligament
impurity gas
intermediate muscle
internal mixing
jellybean part
klibi
line access point
long-run adjustment
macia
make one's farewells
melilotus suaveloens ledeb.
milheparine
minimal convex polygon
monorhina
pennsylvania-baseds
periureteric
petty misdemeanor
pinged us
pituitary space
ploughshare bone (or plowshare bone)
point beam
point-source model
powerboard
put someone's monkey up
referred to as
Robledo de Chavela
ruly language
Scidmore eyepiece
scoutmistress
sea-cucumbers
searse
self-expansion
shoulder cape
shouldered arches
single-column planing machine
Solanum cathayanum
specific gravity separator
sponge roll
start-stop bit
store order
storing up
stromatographium stromaticum
surface plasmon
swarf-penny
Talavera la Real
tongue test
touch move
UCG
under-utilize
underwater hydraulic drive unnit
unedging
unified magnitude
Victoria green
viewer
wigged out