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
abduction shoulder joint
ag(e)ing treatment
algebraic root
allitic soil
anterior choroid plexus
apirex
autoaccelerations
blood-drawing
brickey
bricktop
bright bars
buchucomphor
bulk dry cargo
C. & E.
Camellia albescens
candacia pachydactyla
carbon bit
cardamom mts.
casual labo(u)rer
catti
chapournet
chicken pot pie
ciabatta
citizen jury
colosseum
comparative sociology
crowd into
cut-weed
cyclic deformation
cypresswood
daffod
darfurian
DDR RAM
double galvanized wire
dwarf round herring
end of thread
epiqolic
ErrorReturn
explosive cord
family fistulariidaes
Fenibutol
forced spacing
gnathic index
grey birch
gross error
hoggas
hydrosudotherapy
immersion series
indecence
jinotegas
Kharkov linac
lard lubrication
Lea and Nurse permeameter
Lebiasininae
loughnane
Luye Township
lymphocystosis
meat testing thermometre
metric coefficient
micranthine
Miyazaki-ken
muddle-headed
national-cashregister electronic autocoding technique
nienabers
noble spinel
ossa tarsi fibulare
petasol
pharyngomaxillary
Phragmites
pilot's automatic telephone weather answering service
plane generation
prig-penny
purpurine
put one's right hand to something
record type representation
recruitment test
riparianness
rocket-propelled
saliva test
salvadoris
salvilenone
sequential en couleurs a'memorie system
serpentine
shift converter
socializes
solid crank shaft
soliloquizers
steadly
stichloroside
stroma lamella
sun-burned
systolic arrays
tapinocephalic
television broadcast
transfer tax (on stock)
trenton
tripylean
troue
VBV
Vukollan
warm temperate rain forest
Wickham Market