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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学英语单词
adaptive metallurgy
adaptivenesses
age class method
applied mathematical modelling
argillaceous material
artful pleadings
back edge
bambusa pachinensis hay.
Bessel-Fourier transform
bolwer hat
boule weir
cascade type (washer)
central branches
chana dahl
charophyte
Closing Bell
crossflow rate
current
cutaway section
danger zone
darkling beetles
Deckenia
devolution
ditolylguanidine
double beam oscillograph
downy woodpecker
elementary electronic charge
ellroy
emulsion concentrates of petroleum products
enquiries
front-end system
fuel feed line
galactic diffuse light
genus limuluss
genus Seriphidium
GLONASS
gomphonema
good sailors
ground bearing capacity
guvnor
high precision face grinder
hipnotic
idleton
ilhan
interactive system control
intermediate box
inuncant
iontherapy apparatus
jet-flapped rudder
kkks
lay one's account for
lifting-body reentry
long-term planning
Main Pump
mhab
micropaedia
Mid-Atlantic Option
mientras
mill personnel
milli-ohm
MOVE statement
N-nitro-N-phenylbenzyl-amine
natural radiation
netmanage
norcamphane
nutmeg-shaped
observaciones
pantanencephalus
Patos de Minas
perimetritic abscess
personnel-related expenses
pidonia hohuanshana
placative
placket front
proprietarious
puccinia cyperi-iriae
red gums
remote-controller
return scrap
Rigid Sphere
sealing cone
shunt voltage regulator
single heading flight
solarex
SPHAERIOIDEA
substantive findings
subz
targeted value
teamkiller
textrons
third bottom
to ring a bell
Triphysaria chinensis
turbantop
United States Navy
velocity-compound turbine
veneer
Vilémov
waste weir
weapon maintenance team
white-on-black
zenithal projection