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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学英语单词
accumulated water
aircraft role equipment
ancillary jack
arboricities
aspartic acid (asp or d)
at a cost of
barrier reef lagoon coast
besikta
Carraroe
celciuss
chancel organ
chien ch'i tui
claw at
coloring agents
column water
comata
communication matrix
cops and robbers,cops-and-robbers
creatonotos gangis
culverfoot
cypraea vitellus
devons
diamond anniversaries
diplocoria
domain name server spoofing
drift correction
drying bulb
fish shackle
flame retarded resin
fly into a fury
Freudenberg's lignin
funnel shaped pelvis
fusarium lateritium mori
Gelao
glucazidone
graphite moderated reactor
gymnoblastea
hamminess
Hoffman, Malvina
hygroscopic mechanism
independent bilge pump
intermediate pass sorting
international bidding
Itatiba do Sul
jeonse
job progress report
Karonie
key logger
lighting switch handle
location of mountain line
luminosity curve
magnetic annealing
medicinalis
meta-commentary
myriocarpus
Narakia
non-excludability
Nosoma
of diffusion index
of free gift
olefinic hydrocarbons
owner's mark
oxtering
panegyricks
particulate filled polymer composite
pedaile
people-dancing
pollution load
polymaltose
railroad engineers
ranging line
return fire
ring and brushes
rubicundas
s-xl
sabellarid
sand in teeter
satin plain mixed
sesquihydrates
ship chandlery firm
simple surge tank
slag-free
slip-knot
sludge sampling
starchwort
stone block pavement
strawberry bush
sub-groupings
sublimatography
sweet pepper plants
sym.-diphenylurea
Tavistock
threshold operator
tide indicator
Trisurix
trojan code
uncorks
unrefuted
unridable
Weillen
whiteglowing
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