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
acoustic disk
acoustic log
Adolfo Alsina
age of vessel
ametropic amblyopia
aminophenylglycine
atrial chamber
backcrossings
be having a moment
blet
brush feed
Burdingalian
Chovwe
ciliately
compatible machine
controllable liquid-crystal display
crankshaft toothed wheel
delivery to arrive
diesel fuel additives
dissemination channel
dissental
dominant height
ductus hepaticus sinister
ear fungus
echo-trap
Elatostema eriocephalum
enclitics
environmental public policy development
etoufee
eutropis multifasciata
forest range
fossil permafrost
fyke net
gag store
garfinkels
global domain identifier
ground-fishing
gully(ravine)
GVWR
hash heap
henpeckers
hierarchical level I
holding midfielder
ICITO
incanus
inspirit
intake velocity
interambulacera
intracranial pressure transducer
jellico
kymoparalytic muscular hypertrophy
lauma
m. iliopsoas
machine assembly
machine vision inspection system
magabyte
makas
manual speed demand set point
Markova
measurements reactor
meat type feeding
methyl violet
mobile liquid
Morozova, Mys
nozzle out gas angle
open-ended structure
parfumiers
post-colonialisms
primary permeability
professional
reaction variable
recibiendo
resistance grading
restrained cooling shrinkage
retinophoral
retriggerable one shot multivibrator
saomatopathia
sappy stem
scolio-
sell by public auction
Semikarakorsk
shiphandling in heavy weather
situation phase circuit
spirochaetal granule
stercolith
stitches down
stromelysin-1
swaknoite
symmetry forbidden
t'ai-nan
the laws
therapeutic serum
three rail crossing
Tiberguent
Titi I.
unethicalities
unfeasible
ungodly hour
water immersion objective
watertight light fitting
wge
zero-axis symmetry