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
additional combining
allocation of labour
almanc
Amerasia Basin
antistrikers
autoregulation voltage compensator
barge cargo
bath surface
be rusty
Camellia scariosisepala
carballoy
cercospora deightonii
cheating at common law
class B auxiliary power
comatic circle
contra-flow regenerator
cored hardening
cryptic satellite DNA
D meason
detective time constant
detotalization
dorsal plate
dripdry
dust settler
ectobatic
exterior stucco
fists
fouge
front power take-off
genus pholiotas
gouvernment
Gross-Hehlen
Hafnarfjall
hallams
healing sore and relieving pain
Hemptinne
high altitude air-traffic control
high pressure oil lifting device
houseshare
hydrostaticks
Igbira, Igbirra
in dictione
incidental science experience (ise)
industrial tube
industry title
it might
kurung
lateral wind bracing
le monde
light naphtha
loeweite
longitudinated
manned spacecraft system
Melloussa
monogeosyncline(Schuchert)
multi arch
Narcinidae
national service of legal metrology
nettech
neutron transport equation
newer
Palestinian Authority
partially occupied band
Parvularcula
passel
Physaliastrum heterophyllum
polar stratospheric vortex
Populus purdomii
portable processor unit
print information form
psych someone up
Pyracantha crenulata
red states
responsive time constant
revolutionary proletarian armies
roughing scale breaker
saltpond
scanning device
scheduled down-time
scissors kicks
scoliomete
seriflux
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
slip one's memory
sole licence
Spirillum tenue
SRLB
stone ball
striking proof
swda
syntonically
Takatshwaane
throughgang
Tigrinia
tipped cigarette
tri-services
udexes
Verdet constant
wire-rod mill
Yedogon
Yuzovka
zingibers