时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(二月)


英语课

1. The death toll 1 is rising in New Zealand after a massive earthquake. Rescuers are scrambling 2 to rescue anyone still alive in the rubble 3. The confirmed death toll from Tuesday's quake rose to 75. And at least 300 people are still reported missing.


 


2. Chicago has its first new mayor since 1989. Voters chose former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to lead America's third largest city. Emanuel says he’s ready to take on the city's challenges and praise the legacy 4 of outgoing Mayor Richard Daily Junior.


 


3. A jury has convicted an Arizona man of murder for running over his daughter. Faleh Hassan Almaleki is an Iraqi immigrant, convicted in a case prosecutors 5 called an “honor killing 6.” They say Almaleki was angry at his daughter for becoming Westernized and refusing an arranged marriage.


 


4. And a New York man was reunited with some memories. Rudolph Resta had his wallet stolen more than 40 years ago. Then, he got a phone call. A security guard found it inside a wall in an abandoned building, perfectly 7 preserved.



1 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。
2 scrambling
v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 );攀登;争夺;(军事飞机)紧急起飞
  • Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发,冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
4 legacy
n.遗产,遗赠;先人(或过去)留下的东西
  • They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
  • He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
5 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
6 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
7 perfectly
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
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学英语单词
admissible concentration
admissible control system
Alliea
archemastry
asynchronous uncontrolled
at each other's throat
automatic train stopping device
basic media
battery extractor
be seized of
blow-downs
Boost Converter
Bramfield
brandy snap
calibration battery
candiduilin
cellular virome
cerene
clericalization
close support area
container seedling
conversion code
convoying ship
cooled photocell
copper wire
correspondence schools
covered hopper
damnability
Danish capital
dbloss
desylamine
dissociation point
dospat (dhespatis potamos)
echiuroidea
fetid
flood capacity
forest interpretation
four-handedly
friction arm method
geologic log
geometricization
Goibhniu
grooved director
heat transfer through plane wall
image cognitive science
imply by
infection of incisional wound
inter-arrival
intimate relationships
intramammary abscess
Jesuits's bark
longitudinal trim
lorzafone
manual board
mazolytic
Mesentol
metamylene
misdeem A for B
mix ... drinks
mixer type iron ladle car
momentary closure
Nentsy
non-inductive coil
nonacrimonious
on with
oouen
overinvoicer
peer-to-peer layer
Pelosigma
project from
Qezel Kotal
quadrature potentiometer
radioactivated
reference termination
saprobiont
seed manure
shit on
single horn anvil
sleep talk
space station program
specific Gibbs free energy
Spirillum tyrogenum
spiritus saponis kalini
spoiled work-in-process
streit
subsuppliers
tetrachloro
the milk is spilled
thermal engine
transseptal left heart catheterization
Tsaban
unconditional optimum
uncovenable
unrestricted negotiation
valve mechanism casing
vestibular fenestra
voluntaryexercise
we-all
whiffiest
white-anted
whitelow
wooden flask