时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(五月)


英语课

1. Rescue and recovery work continues in Joplin, Missouri. Crews are combing areas they've already searched, hoping to find more survivors 1. Meantime a violent storm system continues to rumble 2 through the central part of the country.


 


2. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron promise to continue a military campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya. It's day two of Obama's visit to London where he became the first president to address the British parliament in Westminster Hall.


 


3. A Massachusetts jury has acquitted 3 Nancy Kerrigan's brother of manslaughter in the death of their 70-year-old father. But Mark Kerrigan was convicted of assault and battery for fighting with his dad. He faces a maximum of more than two years in prison.


 


4. And a person familiar with the investigation 4 into former Senator John Edwards' political dealings says he could be indicted 5 within days. Officials are looking into whether donations to Edwards' presidential campaign were spent to hide his affair.



1 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
2 rumble
n.隆隆声;吵嚷;v.隆隆响;低沉地说
  • I hear the rumble of thunder in the distance.我听到远处雷声隆隆。
  • We could tell from the rumble of the thunder that rain was coming.我们根据雷的轰隆声可断定,天要下雨了。
3 acquitted
宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(自己)作出某种表现
  • The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
  • Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
5 indicted
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
学英语单词
Amomum globosum loureiro
bandaging strapping
beam with both ends built-in
bebless
biennially
blowup printing
bsecs
building and savings society
bury barge
change command argument
Cheloniidae
clad fusion defect
complete street
consensocracy
creosote for chemical purpose
currency revaluation
customs basis
dental fluoroscopy
dimethyltryptamine
earthquake region
El Pobo
elbow rooms
electrographic system
engreen
foisy
fore-tack
free and estate
fuel-injected
gate-leg table
generating equipment
genus chrysemyss
grazing capacity (of a pasture)
Hallopeau's disease
Hardware cache
helium-cooled
hemosporosis
hepatoprotectives
honey-flowers
indolylglucuronide
iridize
isofacial
Itapebi
kjeldahl nitrogen determination
line drives
log paper
long-term credit market
make oneself understood
Mangang
manufacture by powder metallurgy
marloes
Mas de las Matas
Maurer type screw press
mediate speed
mental activity
microdisk transistor
monopolisers
multi order
nclb
needle fracture
Old Slavic
omrs
ordnance storeroom
overexcited operation
passing strake
perspicuously
piston cooling gallery
polar desert
polystichum biaristatum
pressure lapse rate
primary phytocoenosium
product market definition
quanyous
rate equation
refractory stone
RSoP
Salix oreophila
second bill of exchange
shot-glass
single-headed rail
sleep-like-a-top
sloughing of a cutting
soulfully
sphenisciform bird
station keeping radar
stone colic
storked
stovemaker
syndrome of depletion of yang involving yin
The answer is in the affirmative.
to appeal to...
to do sb's bidding
transmission level
unstain
VBC
Veatchite-A
vertical lips
walk-ing
Western Dist.
whammed
windlass bucket
Xuanzong
zyg-