时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

The fire started Saturday afternoon. Fire officials didn’t yet know how it started, but they suspected arson 1. Arsonists 2 listen to weather reports. They get excited when they hear that the Los Angeles area is going to have Santa Ana winds, which can blow steadily 3 at 30 mph and gust 4 to 60 mph.


Planes dropped flame retardant around the southern edge of the fire to protect houses closest to the foothills. On the radio, a reporter said the fire had consumed 100 acres. Fire officials thought that the fire would be out within 24 hours, if the Santa Ana winds didn’t start blowing.


At 10:30 Saturday evening, Adam walked downtown to see if he could get a better view of the fire. He had never seen his small town so crowded on a Saturday night. Everyone was watching the fire. He got a great view with his binoculars 5. Even though downtown was windless, he saw flames that looked like they must have been 50 or 60 feet high. The winds had picked up in the foothills. The red flames stood out clearly against the night sky. At 11 p.m., fire officials announced a mandatory 6 evacuation of about 100 homes north of Carter Avenue.


 



1 arson
n.纵火,放火
  • He was serving a ten spot for arson.他因纵火罪在服十年徒刑。
  • He was arraigned on a charge of arson.他因被指控犯纵火罪而被传讯。
2 arsonists
n.纵火犯( arsonist的名词复数 )
  • The factory was destroyed in a fire started by arsonists. 工厂在纵火犯引起的火灾中烧毀了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland said suspected arsonists could face murder charges. 澳大利亚总检察长罗伯特麦克莱兰说,怀疑纵火犯可能面临谋杀指控。 来自互联网
3 steadily
adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地
  • The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
  • Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。
4 gust
n.阵风,突然一阵(雨、烟等),(感情的)迸发
  • A gust of wind blew the front door shut.一阵大风吹来,把前门关上了。
  • A gust of happiness swept through her.一股幸福的暖流流遍她的全身。
5 binoculars
n.双筒望远镜
  • He watched the play through his binoculars.他用双筒望远镜看戏。
  • If I had binoculars,I could see that comet clearly.如果我有望远镜,我就可以清楚地看见那颗彗星。
6 mandatory
adj.命令的;强制的;义务的;n.受托者
  • It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
  • There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。
学英语单词
-ina
actinium compound
adsorption isothermal(line)
air vents
air weight flow
Ampanihy
bad-cop
BBKA
Bjerrum's metometer
canis dirus
car-service
chantepleure
characteriologically
check of axial clearance
cinnamomum wiisonii var. multiflorum gamble
Club Fed
cold sealing
compatible color television
connection method
contiuous vibration
counterbalancing mass
Cuban red macaw
cutoff apron
dedramatizing
diffused-base technique (dbt)
disease-spreading
dynalink
dynamical topography
earthly joys
ferozes
fiduciary investment
galvanized mild steel countersunk head wood screw
geoexploration
grey pottery
hand operated regulator
honmacher
hydraulic lift piler
ice stone
inocubated
insulaspis garambiensis
IPI
irrigation
Juris.
Kajakī
keerfully
lab-to-fab
landslid
largening
lashing triangle
Levyy Lepchin
low-level inversion
luggage carousel
macro forecast
main field
mining structure
movable pilot valve
MPI (maximum permissible intake)
multiple granuloma
mutant protein
narod
nearshores
neatwork
nih
oesophageal sympathetic nervous system
OK author
over-deck
overrecovered
path scrubber tool
PCOB
pelican nebula
prehistoric culture
primary distribution system
Private and Confidential Clause
quinquertium
rail renewing
ranunculus nephelogenes edgew
renucleations
reprogramings
Rhapis gracilis
rifampicin
rosiny
Saccharomyces glutinis
self-surrender
setstate
shrubberies
skips-in-planting
slatted floor
stepover
strategic equivalence
surinamiae
Sverdrup, Ostrov
syngenetie
Taraxacum lanigerum
temperature of nil-ductility transition
testing signal
thump-thump
toll terminal
ugliest
vascular dementia
what love tells me
whdi
zanardi