时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(一月)


英语课

In Haiti, a powerful aftershock sent Haitians into the streets, cracking roads and adding to the nation's trauma 1. The magnitude-5.9 jolt 2 matched the strongest of the aftershocks that came after the huge quake that devastated 3 the capital Port-au-Prince.


     The Republican, taking over for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat, says he is heading to Washington soon. Scott Brown gives the GOP the 41st vote they need to sustain a filibuster 4, potentially blocking the president's health care bill.


     The so-called White House "Gate Crashers" take the Fifth, with officials wanting to know how this couple made it through security into a state dinner. But the Salahis are not talking to a congressional committee, invoking 5 their right against self-incrimination.


      A California man was all set to open his new strip club. Now he has some cleaning-up to do. A 150-pound goat smashed its way into the club and incident's all caught on tape.



1 trauma
n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
2 jolt
v.(使)摇动,(使)震动,(使)颠簸
  • We were worried that one tiny jolt could worsen her injuries.我们担心稍微颠簸一下就可能会使她的伤势恶化。
  • They were working frantically in the fear that an aftershock would jolt the house again.他们拼命地干着,担心余震可能会使房子再次受到震动。
3 devastated
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
  • The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
  • His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
4 filibuster
n.妨碍议事,阻挠;v.阻挠
  • A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.一个参议员硬把这个题目拉扯进来,作为一种阻碍议事的手法。
  • The democrats organized a filibuster in the senate.民主党党员在参议院上组织了阻挠议事。
5 invoking
v.援引( invoke的现在分词 );行使(权利等);祈求救助;恳求
  • You can customise the behavior of the Asynchronous Server and hence re-brand it by defining your own command set for invoking services. 通过定义自己调用服务的命令集,您可以定制自定义异步服务器的行为,通过为调用服务定义自己的命令集从而对它重新标记。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • You can customize the behavior of the Asynchronous Server and hence re-brand it by defining your own command set for invoking services. 通过定义自己调用服务的命令集,您可以定制自定义异步服务器的行为,通过为调用服务定义自己的命令集从而对它重新标记。 来自辞典例句
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7-methoxybaicalein
agvs
Ampoa
anyones
Barraquer-Simons syndrome
baubella
BCATm
bisaminophenoxyethane
bonus tax
branching reaction
break of slope
burns-in
cellular striation
chemical stress relaxation
Clark's operation
clear the table
combustion period
compensation factor of a compensated ionization chamber
consiglieres
Dandy syndrome
Daphne laciniata
dipodomys merriamic
distributed minicomputer network
dolorosa paraplegia
dressing of steel ingots
drywell hatch cover
euproctis unifascia
excystment
fat-free diet
fluorodensitometry
foot-cloth
form matter
four part alloy
generalization
gun-slinging
hay rack
hemobilirubin
high cost factor
High Frontier Study
host language (in database)
Hubble, Edwin Powell
immomentous
in respect to
initial free volume
intratemporal
islanders
kosher sausage
laminated joint
lead based bearing alloy
leucomainemia
levant moroccoes
man-hunters
maxwell material
mersea
MMP (motor-mount pump)
MOCVD
moscow' oslo
motoroperated
multiplicative reproduction
myotenosetis
nature of work
nidated
NSC-296934
Nussbaum's experiment
oberkirches
off-line data reduction
one-way bus
orimarga (orimarga) taiwanensis
orthoscopic system
otologic
Ouareau, L.
oxy-bird
packaging quality
pain-relievers
parrell
photo interpretation in agriculture
rental income of persons
rossbaches
rotundifolone
rou
run of luck
schistorrhachis
sensationalizer
sexual progeny
smiths cold set
sphalerocarpium
star program
starting air
statemongers
stucco fluidized bed
Suwanose-suidō
sweet cassava
target video
tax liabilities
thermosonic bonding
unclubable
upon my conscience
Uruguai(Uruguay), R.
venae intercostales posteriores
Vichy France
whisperin'