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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a moving force
absolutus
acid-induced
adatoms
aeroacoustic
anti-bonding electron
aromatic amine
ass crack
barium naphthanate
bedrock mortar
big-mountain
Bronsted-Lowry bases
capitoes
cardanols
charge gauge
chloroformobacillin
clothes brushes
colour quality
d'augelli
dead-pays
diffusion research
dihyrofolate reductase
Discoidin
earth radiation budget satellite (erbs)
espinomycin
fengjie
fluviomarine
football tees
frequency table
Galidzga
give sb another turn of the screw
Gogra
harvesting of skin grafts
hyperama
indoxyl glucoside
iron men
iron rust glaze
job out
Juanita Doe
kanji utility
L'vivs'ka Oblast'
ladder logic
Lashawndra
lean alloy
leucophlegmatic
limit flow graph
lock free retainer
logic graph
mancipating
missile-tracking ship
mitotic figures
movable knife
moving- coil instrument
multiple voting shares
naked fifth
non-confirmation
nuclear reactors
Officious Salvage
oxyhemoglobinomete
parameter error
Paso Caballos
Payera, Ostrov
payoff expected
permanent call
phearse
pit mob
positioning by marking
posthioplasty
preaid interest
psephism
pseudoallochem
quantity of motion
quasimathematical
radiomimetic effect
radioresistances
rangefinding
Ranunculus altaicus
repone in an office
resedimented rock
ribbonsnake
SACCOBRANCHIDAE
sea cucumber
self-oscillatory transducer
serviceman
shark-fishings
She Stoops to Conquer
shot-hole fatigue
sowel
stopping over
tautochronism
tekkieh
tideways
time of flight mass spectrometer
tinier
tumor of pelvis
ultropaqug methods
vascularization
weather-fend
West Asian
win easily
wish sb well
world association of law student