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。
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air fin cooler
angle of twist per unit length
Anglo-classic architecture
anterior fontanelles
aphose
arraj
automatic unloading
base price
beambird
blogospheres
boiled canned food
brake chute
breathing pattern
butylthiourea
by-numbers
capitals of maryland
cistelomorpha bina
clayton
coherent derived unit of measurement
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consignment clause
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cupola furnace
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delta connector
demonry
desulphurate
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directoxidation leaching
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evidence verifier
family Iguania
first flight neutron loss
galacto-oligosaccharide
gantt load chart
gelonin
greenhouse warmings
heterotopic oral gastrointestinal cyst
HSAA
iipc
inboards
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isoclinic chart
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kwame nkrumah
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legislative mandate
legume inoculation
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made broad her phylacteries
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meze
micromaterials
Minsen
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multiwindowing
narrow-row
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noctuid moth
nonprofessionally
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pamphlet
phenyl tetrabromide
pre-announcement
precomminution
pressure control system of spacecraft cabin
profurea
puddle steel
quillers
rachilla(rhachilla)
rate of recovery of capital construction
rate-of-change relay
relaxivity
Royds
scroggy
silicone adhesives
small vessel
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somascope
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strong pulse
symmetrize
the new year
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Tiezene
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