时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(三月)


英语课

1. Libyan rebels are advancing once again toward the country's capital after seizing control of two major oil terminals from Moammar Gadhafi's military. A week ago, rebels appeared on the verge 1 of defeat in their efforts to oust 2 Gadhafi, but international air strikes have tipped the balance.


 


2. Emergency workers at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex are struggling to remove radioactive water from a reactor 3 that is testing 100,000 times above normal. Tokyo Electric Power originally reported that radiation levels were ten-million times above normal but later issued an apology and the correction.


 


3. An Athens Georgia police officer has been laid to rest just two days after the suspect in his death surrendered on live television. Elmer Christian 4 was gunned down last Tuesday as he tried to question 33-year-old Jamie Hood 5 in connection with a recent carjacking and kidnapping.


 


4. Several New York news outlets 6 say the single winning ticket from Friday's Mega Millions lottery 7 belongs to a group of state workers. The ticket was purchased at this convenience store near the Capitol and it's worth 319 million dollars.



1 verge
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
2 oust
vt.剥夺,取代,驱逐
  • The committee wanted to oust him from the union.委员会想把他从工会中驱逐出去。
  • The leaders have been ousted from power by nationalists.这些领导人被民族主义者赶下了台。
3 reactor
n.反应器;反应堆
  • The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
  • Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里,大分子裂变为小分子。
4 Christian
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
5 hood
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
6 outlets
n.出口( outlet的名词复数 );经销店;插座;廉价经销店
  • The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
7 lottery
n.抽彩;碰运气的事,难于算计的事
  • He won no less than £5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
  • They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
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accumulating reproducer
Agastache foeniculum
aluminium-clad wire
ancloy
anthrathiophene
arc welder
auto restart
Baan Baa
basic representation
bayadere moire
bdg
be one's own person
bentiromide
bleared
blocktalc
boarding pike, boarding-pike
case-mortality rate
chromotypic
coiid
color center laser
combinatory analysis
come in!
competent cells
compitor
consiliative
crocodylus niloticuss
cynghanedd
Dendrolimus tabulaeformis
diffuse code
Elmshorn
emptying door
endoparasitoid
epinephelus fuscoguttatus
Euphorbia milii
fermentation cellar
fracture of alveolar bone
fuel-oil over-flow valve
genus Quamassia
haloumis
hammer head key
high-fidelity television
high-speed job selection
hoisting beam for repairs
ianthinus
inflammatory polyp of rectum
initial configuration
insurance company rating
intervocalically
isoelectronic principle
jarful
kinematic coefficient of viscosity
Kings Valley
klotz
Knud Rasmussens Land
Krassowski eliipsoid of 1938
legislation on wages
make quantum leaps
manihot esculentas
medical screening
mercury dropping electrode
metal ring
metatarsalgia
Microsporum felineum
molinism
mollis cancer
move away from
multicount mode
non-roundness measurement
non-transparent
OCP (output control pulse)
omnibus cue circuit
pale about the gills
paradisi
parietal lobes
pedestalled
penobscot
pentaoxides
personal macro workbook
petcock
pistol-whippeds
port ontario
portrait painter
power distributing board
pteroclids
quartz controlled transmitter
rhus vernixes
saku
samaraii
Schiehallion series
state senator
stillsons
ternary system
time-bounded Turing machine
trisuloides caerulea
tupto-ing
two terminals
two-resonator klystron amplifier
who'm
wigged out
wound yarn
yaba-like poxvirus
ydaunted