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
a female domestic
absolute harmonic measure
adoquei
aggot
allegest
anchorage bar
aquatic habitat
aural radio range
autoantibiosis
axial mirror ratio
B'sequence
Beloye
boric acid transfer pump
break-up pattern
built-in assembler
buzz marketing
CARE (computer-aided reliability)
chancelry
christian bibles
client isolation
colkethor
conditional stable circuit
cozy
crystallizer bottom plate
danger coefficient method
daphne nana
depersonalisation disorders
desuperheater spray
dicranopteriss
doortodoor car
duplex type
echangisme
economic project
elements of relative orientation
emergency feeder
exercise cycle
fiber-to-the-cabinet
foetal membranes
fonds
future commission merchant
giacommetti
gripping angle
hand-foot-clothes-monitor
helix voltage
history museum
HMERGE (high order merge)
horizontal control survey
ice-caps
indexed list
intolerantness
isocortex
isotomeograph
laser reliability
lttes
meiens
methylene blue
midpoint connection
mineralization of U-Hg type
Modřany
mortalness
MPOD (mean planned outage duration)
Mulym'ya
nasoalveolar cyst
needle tubing
non operational cost
nothing daunted
notice of tax payment
pack-staff
paramoeciums
percentage of coal content
perturbation of temperature
posterior weighting
pressure pulse wave
prevulcanize
proportional-plus-derivative action
quebracho tannin
re-let
respiratory syncytial virus
roll down
sealight
shined through
shore leaves
shore sth up
spray (water)pipe
strassburgs
subcutaneous felon
sudhir
sulci cutis
tartnesses
teacher's manual
tereby
three-address architecture
under flow (in calculators)
Unterglottertal
Ust'-Bol'sheretskiy Rayon
vertical drawing machine
visible light photoresistor
wedge tomb
while structure
wood-
woodhole