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
ad inf., ad infin.
after-lives
alpine spruce
Androsace nortonii
anesthetized injury
anti-corrosion alloy
anti-forling composition
asthenic syndrome
bacterial folliculitis
brass-founders' ague
bushed bearing
Chenopodiura
clean as a new pin
closed loops
collapsible(sable) cladding
colour light signal
corpora mammillaria
death inquiry
denvers
digital-cash
egg cleaning
fileys
fritilary
funnelling question
glucofuranoside
green spleenwort
Han Yu
heterobasidiomycetess
histoplast
Huaylas
idle activity variance
impact stress
insurmountability
interstate river
laniary
leafet
Ledian
legislative bureau
lepidothamnus laxifoliuss
mandrils
manning scale
maspero
matterhorn
mechanical-vignetting
medium signal eode
melanization
metachromatic filter
Methyiperone
methylphenanthrene
multi duplicating machine
narrow-size distribution
neutron ejection
non-load
nor'westers
nyctomete
Okhotskiy Rayon
optimum dose
palpebral anthracosis
parallax-free display
pedigree analysis
piston-top surface
profit reinvested
progressive sliding gear
pulse blocking
Pākurigaon
racobrachialis
ratiometric method
recitement
recitip
recycling of resources
reserve of foreign exchange
rewrite man,rewriteman
ricotta
ripplers
rissa
road auger
safety pins
scalene triangles
shifting lever for exhaust air
short shunt winding
slowche
Smithsonitum
smoke(producing) agent
somatal
south-east (se)
south-seeking pole
spell-books
spinoculated
spring constellations
squareintegrable
steady state vibration
stool layering
straw-clutchingly
throw ... together
timed spark system
triethylmelamine
Trypanosoma vivax
tubercularise
water flood pump
wire tray
Xyphophorus helleri
yeakel