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. More trouble at Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant. Workers were evacuated 1 after smoke was spotted 2 at one of the reactor 3 buildings. Meanwhile, some food shipments have been halted over radiation concerns.


2. The Pentagon says airstrikes have scattered 4 Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi's forces. Missiles and precision bombs pounded Gadhafi's residential 5 compound in Tripoli. The US is now moving to hand control of the military operation to other countries.


3. There are flooding fears in the Mid-west and California. Heavy rain and winds pounded parts of the Pacific Coast, causing power outages and down trees. Rising rivers have promoted evacuation in some southern Illinois neighborhoods.


4. And firefighters had to work quickly to stop a grass fire in an Oklahoma City neighborhood. Strong winds wiped flames perilously 6 close to homes. One firefighter suffered minor 7 burns.



1 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
2 spotted
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
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 scattered
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
5 residential
adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的
  • The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
  • The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
6 perilously
adv.充满危险地,危机四伏地
  • They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice. 他们离悬崖边很近,十分危险。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It'seemed to me that we had come perilously close to failure already. 对我来说,好像失败和我只有一步之遥,岌岌可危。 来自互联网
7 minor
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
标签: AP 美联社新闻
学英语单词
adjustment downward
admiring
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Amalric I
amend name of commodity to...
amidefrine
arbitrary lateral load
auditory canal
awilda
azithromycin
beeghly
belt down the road
Bergman
blast freezer
BLEDTA
brachio-
bubble data
burst flag
Capsula tonsillaris
ccah (cogenital adrenal hyperplasis)
Chinese actinidia root
chrome-Diopside
cincotti
clincher'
code redundance
completely elastic
comprising
congressional oversight
counterworld
cristae tuberculi majoris
Curral das Freiras
D galaxy
Daily Factor
dead stroke
deshieldings
draw bail
eddy length
emergent power
emo boy
Euphrosyne
evolucin
five-finger discounts
focile majus antibrachii
Gaspereau Forks
gotoxy
green crop drier
histochemistry of autonomic neurons
holy dollar
hoppler rolling ball viscometer
horler
ignition interference
in red
inside-right
intercostal arteries
interedition
Lazarevka
lever arm rule
lubricating effect
maitlandite (thorogummite)
manufacturing industries
Muhamedism
near infrared range remote sensing
nien hao
NLDL
non-salaries
operating system environment
orothamnic
paraplectana tsushimensis
periodic docking survey
permissible tensile stress
pick-and-place unit
Polk, James Knox
prelipoid
prime imiister
progressive chart
ramichloridium schulzeri schulzeri
reactor building drain system
ringworks
safe and reliable operation
sea acceptance trial
seam lap
seasonal period
self-transcendent
Shannon's expansion theorem
snapdown
snapout
Soldados, Cerro
spars
sport-utility
stratford
subvert
superannealed
swithed repetitively-pulsed laser
the reason for
tightknit
tomberlin
traffic data processing
water channel of gill
woofer speaker
wris
X-ray proof rubber
yiks