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. Search is still going on for the missing from the massive tornado 1 that flattened 2 Joplin, Missouri. The state says more than 100 people are unaccounted for and the death toll 3 has now risen to 139.


 


2. President Barack Obama has ended his trip to Europe. He was in Poland Saturday, where he said the United States must always leave room to throw financial and moral support behind nations fighting for freedoms, even in times of tough economic conditions.


 


3. Casey Anthony's mother took the witness stand today in her daughter's murder trial. Both broke down in tears as Cindy Anthony described the days leading up to her two-year-old granddaughter’s disappearance 4 in 2008.


 


4. Second-ranked Novak Djokovic has extended his season opening winning streak 5 to 40 matches. He won again today at the French Open. He's now won 42 straight matches dating back to last year.



1 tornado
n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
2 flattened
[医](水)平扁的,弄平的
  • She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
  • I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
3 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
4 disappearance
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
5 streak
n.条理,斑纹,倾向,少许,痕迹;v.加条纹,变成条纹,奔驰,快速移动
  • The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
  • Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹?
学英语单词
Aconitum spicatum
advantageouser
Agrostis sibirica
al-ashari
ASLH
auricular cartilage (or conchal cartilage)
average information content
benzopyranium salt
bfv
branches of tuber cinereum
brushing primer
butt trumpets
castable refractories
centrailzed lubrication
chucked
couch hop
cross-section profile
cure activating agent
cycloisomerization
Delivery and Taking Delivery of Tally
deliveryperson
detrimental impurity
Diuretobis
doctrine of incorporaton
dunking sonar
episodicity
feeder head
flesh blond
furcal arm
grazing entrance
gyro horizon
Hamburg, Flughafen
high frequency motor generator
home-away-from-home
hydromarchite
hypercalcipexy
indirect comparison
intentional tremor
internal integration
jenny scaffold
jubon
karst phenomena
language information processing science
Luvarus
maginot-minded
main tapping
management and general expenses
marrison
Meerwein's salt
meeting of the minds
metal saw blade
Météren
narrow cut petroleum fractions
nonarguments
nuclear power stations
open style
operating window
osmium(iv) fluoride
particle in cell computing method (picm)
pathological findings
pentaerythritol chloral
perridiculous
primary reflection
proptometer
pseudocalamobius niisatoi
purple-topped
reactor poison skirt
relocatable subroutine
request queue
resorcin monoacetate
rieck
rolled oatss
Salvia farinacea
sancha
sauvignon blancs
scales of cheirolepis
schedule control system criteria
serve ... term
shear plan
showboater
Sibolga
solid film lubricant
space acceleration
starve the beast
strain gauge indicator
systemwide
temporins
tender for sth
then-and-now
tightcoil
trinquet
Umm Hītān
undecalcified
undraping
upper-level high
uterine seizing forceps
valvula sinus coronarii
visual test film
w?n shu nu
yellow trumpetbush
yellow-fevers
yobbo