时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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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。
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about turns
agglutinogenic
aimsweb
allergic vasculitis
Alovera
anthropisation
automatic priority interrupt
beta process
bilenky
blue-white-red style
butopamine
cageier
chromatophilic
class-specific
cluain meala
Cook Fracture Zone
coulons
cragginess
cyclic AMP
diamond skin lesion
Diketopregnanes
double shear double rivet joint
dry divider
Eberndorf
economic regime
ennoblers
Erp59
eyeholes
flying lines
focus strategy
fourierist
freedom to change one's residence
freestands
fresh money
Funduus
Gargori
gazelle-boy
gingham check
girondel
go smash into
graul
groinward
history server
ice-cap climate
ilundain
implementation of secure operating system
internal reserve
jacoline
juxiang cake
Kawal
Korotkoff sounds
lap round
lead nail
leading underwriter
left-half system
Leninakan
lossier
malt extract broth
maximum cut out
mean root square error
Merimee's yellow
microcolony
microcontroller functional components
midirons
minor earthquake
moate
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niggarding
north celestial pole
Oleoparaphene
one's all
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pelvic fin (or ventral fin)
person proposed in the motion
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pretransplant
print suppression
prosily
put a ban on
quantum relation
range control
recurrent group
redox-catalyst system
revocation of will
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Riser board
root running
scattering properties
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shaf
similarto
single-section charge
smectic crystal
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spherical attenuation
stacking test
translatours
tropical Atlantic air mass
unprotected engine
verbena concrete
waiver of fees
weathering certificate