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。
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Adequacy of coverage
airborne communicator
Alcatel
almora
ambiquity
apoptosis-inducing
avail yourself of sth
awgn(additive white gaussian noise)
Bacillus lactis cyanogenes
beta thickness gauge
betula platyphylla sukatchev var. japonica hara
blood-serum agar
box-fish
brace (bracing)
bullet bait
caco-zyme
calotypists
campling
chinawares
Chupyra
circuit breaker with shunt resistance
city planning outline
co-executor
construction equipment
Cont.
controllable starting air valve
convectings
corkies
corozo nuts
davering
deversary
distal turbidite sand
eddy friction
epithelial mass
fermentation inhibitor
foreign odor
Gaenslen's sig
Gossypium hirsutum L.
gunwhale
haematogenetic
hawser port
herring bone planking
higher order phase transition
hoof-prints
horizontal application
hypnodendron reinwardfii (weinw.et hormch) lindb
I disk
isogenome
jwkb method
kala-azar
kelvin thermodynamic scale of temperature
kutubus
labyrinthine symptom
leader strap
least mean square (lms) algorithm
left hand side
live in sin
malignant teratoma
master key
mechanographic
meets a demand for
mis-diagnoses
mis-sway
normalization (in database)
offerers
operating shaft
pastorages
peer-based
pinna pectoralis
Pittacus Of Mytilene
Pollution Abstracts
poor relief
positive-to-negative
postextrasystoles
protosteles
record-industry
resolutive condition
restrict a road
Rome wasn't built in a day
Russianist
sackt
secondary anemia
semi-competitive
servicing placard
Siasi
single place shift
singular automorphism
sirota
spamblocked
spumantes
steel reinforced aluminium cable
Sǒnch'ǒn-gun
tail spar
tien-paos
tonino
tricherie
trust corporation
vaxjoes
ways and means of finance fund
Wegener-Bergeron process
wheelrace
witchiness