时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(九月)


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 1. The military's 18-year ban on homosexual serving openly is over. The policy known as “Don't ask, Don't tell” was officially repealed 1 at midnight. Gay rights groups are planning celebrations throughout the country today.
 
 
 
2. An explosion in Turkey's capital has left at least three people dead. At least 15 others were hurt when a suspected car bomb went off across from a secondary school in Ankara. Turkey’s interior minister says it was likely a terrorist attack.
 
 
 
3. Four earthquakes struck the southeastern part of Guatemala on Monday, leaving one person dead and three others missing. The series of quakes happened in less than two hours and some of them were followed by strong aftershocks. The epicenter was located just 30 miles southeast of the capital.
 
 
 
4. And NASA expects a dead satellite to fall to Earth within the next few days. The agency says the 20-year-old satellite will break up into pieces, but the odds 2 of someone being hit by the debris 3 are extremely small.

1 repealed
撤销,废除( repeal的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The Labour Party repealed the Act. 工党废除了那项法令。
  • The legislature repealed the unpopular Rent Act. 立法机关废除了不得人心的租借法案。
2 odds
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
3 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
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学英语单词
advisory organ
age of lowered sealevel
atreptic
axletrees
be valued at
capacity share
clear coagulation
club mosses
coherent system of units
Colorado blue spruce
compression cone
consumers'association
coordinal
Cracov
Crotalaria linifolia
cultural body
cupping room
direct current analog computer
disillusionary
double donor
downstaters
early packet discard
EBP (exhaust back pressure)
eltzs
emperor penguins
Enerbol
enterocolic fistula
ependymary
epinette
family Cariamidae
Ferintosh
fishmoth
fondnesses
geoscopy
globe journal
Glyceria chinensis
go to the world
guoguang
hemimicelle
high frequency insulator
high-ticket
highly-sensitive
how then
hypnotization
international facsimile service
intragenus
it was understood that
key-card
keyer pulse
kfp
krantze
Les Brenets
leucofluorescein
linebacka
low water springs datum
m-tense
magnetomotive force (mmf)
me three
migration of oil
Mill City
milling spindle diameter
Mougdi(Meguedi)
myosis spastica
oilcloth-covered
one piece auger
operating performance income statement
osculating curve
outmanage
Paleo Indian
papermaking felt
partial width of level
passing on to
pennoncels
Pholidocarpus
poodler
primary photoelectric effect
program transformation method
progressive control
ratproofing
rognvald
sbl
septoria bothriospermi
smelting point
spectral condensation
stand on ceremony
stellar luminosity
subphrenic abscess
swollen resin
system steady-state stability
taken the weight off her feet
to badger sb with question
toning up
transportation test
transshipment area
triethylenethiophosphor amide
tumbleweed moment
vaporating dish
wave-sailing
whrinny
wilnesful
wind area
wing-patterns