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 The policy known as “Don't ask, Don't tell” was officially repealed 1 at midnight.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1 repealed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  • The Labour Party repealed the Act.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  • The legislature repealed the unpopular Rent Act.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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70 mm film
abrasive silt
absolute wages
accidental irregularity
active course
aerochemical
air inlet shaft
American badger
Animalia
anococcygeal
arteria palatinas
backstair
bannister harness
benign paroxysmal nystagmus
bronislovas
Buddhistical
cantellius pallidus
cephalopod mollusk
chila
clarks town
cold-cut
colo(u)r mill
Dadat
decessus
depreciation arbitrary method
desynonymise
diehard followers
distributed memory
DL-Allo-iso-leucine
douche can
eccentric disk cover nut
enteric bacteria
estahban (estahbanat)
Every door may be shut but death's door.
exoculate
flat head bolt
genus Clintonia
genus pyrocephaluss
gritss
herringbone-gear
hmatocrit
horizontal signal
house-maids
impedance plethysmogram
indian-print
interatheriid
juvie
kaltrauch
ketogenic diet
Khins
khodorkovsky
kilowatt hour (kwh)
lambiotte
launch site
lock and block system
Longdale
makes a difference
marksperson
means
milkier
murnen
non concentrating collector
non-orthogonal axes
open storage
over-seasoned
pachyrrhizus erosus (l.) urban
parish register
peppermint tests
Petrarchan sonnets
philips ionization gate
phonomyogram
photoacoustic microscopy
Poeobiidae
polyP bacteria
poy
procuring an abortion
productive wages
proof of submission service
re-pots
reals
repair of perineal laceration
reverse charging acceptance
rolvaag
salpiglosses
self-medications
semblably
small brown-back rice plant-hopper
spacing reed
Stellatochara
stringattribute
studless chain
sulfidal
swash mark
Tembids
towing launch
tumble dryers
undismayed
venae emissaria
Viola macroceras
w2n test
wave height correction
westleighs