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
abominatio
after etching
agaric mineral (rock milk)
alkoes
anisopera
arrese
at all hours
autodissociation
axi-compressor
axial lead
bandhavgarh
batphone
be there for someone
belaced
belief system
brake trial
bum burps
Campbell Town
cap spining frame
carratene
cawthon
cerebral hemorrhage
chromopexis
chromosomal fibers
Clematoclethra pingwuensis
computer-using
crevenette
cyrillization
Daan Township
Decoction of Red Halloysite and Limonite
deformably
delatorreite (todorokite)
dirt screen
dithiodialanine
elink
englacial debris
epiplectic
expatriates
flow-fronts
free figure
goat's milk anemia
grey butte
have sth at one's fingertips
homoveratrylamine
horizon angle
human-kind
hung upon
integumentary tapetum
key contract
knockout core
Kudachi
Kuhunt's forceps
macroimages
medicine for external application
microevolution
monostomous
navigation Doppler radar
Neroyka, Gora
oxnam
persistent pupillary membrane
petrol wharf
PGOT
pigsweat
pitch perfect
plastograph
polyarteritits
power blower
pregnant cow
prototype construction
rack and wheel
radiation-triggered
reaction coefficient
real data
Rubus obcordatus
salientias
self brazing
self-kill
semi-continuous process
sennights
ship-controllability
short duration sustainer
special gear box
spectroanalysis instrument
spherical harmonics expansion
spray pole
static death
sterilizable
Stirling engines
stizosedion vitreum
stretcher-mounted duster
super-continents
surcingless
systematic square
Tongatapu Grp.
Uhrichsville
unchainable
underglaze
volumetrical determination
wiccan
Ya-shima
yockelson