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 next morning, Adam turned on the radio. The fire had spread to 350 acres, and 550 homes had been evacuated 2. More than 400 fire fighters were busy in the foothills. The winds had really picked up overnight. Fire officials declared that the fire was only five percent contained. They said it might take four to seven days to fully 3 contain the fire.


Adam walked outside with his binoculars 4. Helicopters and four-engine tankers 5 were flying over the burn area, dropping water and fire retardant. He could see lots of thick smoke just a couple of miles north of his apartment building. He could hear the sirens of fire engines. All the cars on the street were dusted with soot 6.


Adam's brother called from a nearby city. “Are you going to have to evacuate 1?” he asked Adam. Adam said if they told everyone to evacuate, he would just put his laptop in his car and drive over to stay with his brother. Adam was amazed at how huge and menacing the fire had gotten in less than 24 hours. He hoped that the winds would die down soon; this situation was a little scary. Just a couple of embers flying southward could result in hundreds of homes, including his own, burning down. He did not want his home to be on the five o’clock news.


 



1 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
2 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
3 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 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。
5 tankers
运送大量液体或气体的轮船[卡车]( tanker的名词复数 ); 油轮; 罐车; 油槽车
  • They should stop offloading waste from oil tankers into the sea. 他们应当停止从油轮上往海里倾倒废弃物。
  • The harbour admits large tankers and freighters. 这个港口容得下巨型油船和货轮。
6 soot
n.煤烟,烟尘;vt.熏以煤烟
  • Soot is the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.煤烟是燃料不完全燃烧的产物。
  • The chimney was choked with soot.烟囱被煤灰堵塞了。
学英语单词
alphaherpesviral
an(a)erobe
Andrézieux-Bouthéon
annual report of auditing and inspecting
antireprin
aperiodic compass
are
auger boring
be in a position to do
bementite
blank transfer
bottom oiler
breaching radius
buccal triangular ridge
Camotlán de Miraflores
cap the climax
centerline tracking (clt)
comeouterism
composite electrolyte
contingent zone of fire
coset golay code
cost of holding inventory
crack analysis
D.C.directional relay
dendrobium kwangtungense tso
depth of signal
differentiation of symptoms and signs
digit unallowable
diisoeugenol
distributed topology
dorford
dune-buggied
edith head
egoistry
electric discharge hardening
electronic data processing accounting
emerod
Enderbury
Facpi Pt.
ferroelectric domain wall
flame weeder
garwood
gas jet method
goat willows
grand theory
heme synthetase
hermetically-sealed motor
herpetic vulvovaginitis
highranking
Hilton,James
in-flight monitoring
inherent nature
interlocking panel
iron speck
isoplatinocopper
joeys
lamblias
loaving
luridine
mentioning
middepth
mipcin
modified freeenterprise system
modulator oscillator
momentum energy vector
Moolawatana
MOSSOS
non-arbitrable dispute
nonvolatile store
O.
one way radio equation
organogenous sediments
packaged beef
pars encephalica
partna
pfennigs
phosphorus dibromotrifluoride
point-maker
pressed pipe
pyrazolone red
ready made time-sharing
real line
reknitted
rereleased
road oilling machine
rocker arm pedestal
shireness
smoothed
surgical pack
symbolic input programme
tartrates
three-stage device
Thymoglobuline
tictacs
tribeswoman
triostam
ultraviolet-bright star
unoperating
Walkertshofen
wedge bar
witch-doctors
Woodenbridge