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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Abajo Peak
aging process
all-day
anageons
antimonials
arcus senilis lentis
ash shariqah (sharjah)
authentic nitrogen
automatic dialing unit
automatic vending machine
average hourly earnings
bandster
bechamel sauces
bellows seal adaptor
bottom-up development
box forest
break a leg!
broady
buy and market all by oneself
call-board
can-buoy
Capistrano Beach
capping piece
coastal river squadron
Cudrania cochinchinensis
cylinder cover nut
cylinder wall temperature
cylindrical beard cutting machine
denationalising
disc gear cutter
discovenable
divergent component
edinburgh festival
effects unit
electroosmosis dehumidification
English powder
envionment,java
environmental quality management
float type steam trap
follice
four-speed gear box
Furay'
fusion yield
hueful
Hymenolyma
Ijmaia
included sap wood
indigeneous
insulating fiber board
interest sensitive assets
Iron Gates
is here to stay
Jesuitess
kamelaukia
labouratory
liomera laevis
look big
Maninga
manual starting
maximum production
mckeithen
Merkel(tactile)disk
methyloxamic acid
mullite refractory
mulluss
Negro race
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OMT (operation,maintenance and test)
open manometer
overgrown child
overhang wheel
paraquets
percentage fibre extraction
perforating stamp
pill shooter
pizza base
Pleurostylia opposita
polarized signal
process of payment
protein domains
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relief side
sahuls
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short noise
sitting arch
static-pressure ratio
stragglings
subcarrier color
subconditional assembly
subintroduce
tautologise
the heck of it
tig-tag
transportation premium
universal pump
unstable-type gravimeter
vasograms
wellacquainted
whoave