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 pox on him
anconal fossa
anidrosis
Barton Mills
be limited by
beam steering
Biffins bridges
bureau of justice statistics
claylike
controul
conversationalizing
criner
de-ink
defocusing
dennebol
dichloroethene
Dimitrovgrad(Melekess)
diversified functions of sports
dual purpose kerosene
Egg Saturday
falaka
feeding mechanism
forward chainman
friction disc type
fruit knife with wooden handle
glidepath
Gothic pass
govett
grenadier
grid current capacity
haplometrotic colony
Hess Rise
hot forge rolling
inside bearing
intergrated tag-barge vessels
Jarvis I.
knee-level
luticolous
maisonettes
maximum deviation sensitivity
merchant-stranger
miami-dade
miethe
motion orientation
muchness
mucoadhesives
multiprogramming executive control logic
nailrod
nimis
non-funds
Otoe
over-expectation
ozone layers
peskan
phyllosticta zingiberi hori
polyterpene
portfolio of investment
postcerebral glands
power factor meter
primary metabolic injury
primitive circle
pseudo-pseudodementia
Pterula capillaris
quantifier-free conjunctive-normal form
realizable value
recoverable drone
reepithelialisation
renormalisable
resaying
retrolenticular
rigid-perfectly plastic body
rolled gold covering
rotor brake
Russifier
sexual freedom
shabbes goy
shadow map
shallow discharge
shopping therapy
skag jones
slap jack
something like
spun crepe
stele lime
Tethys Sea
to pass by
top-soils
transformer utilization factor
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Tubidendridae
type oes
u.s. gallon
ultrasonic carver
unassumable
unlooking
vena lienalis anterior
Waldorf salad
warm-lite
wheel carrier support anti rattler
width meter
wind finding radar
zoophytology