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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accepted theory
accretionary lava balls
algorithm convergence
at one with the world
battery anti-aircraft battery
Betula nigra
binga
brazing flux
cardiac myxoma
charm sb into doing sth
chew up the scenery
cladding diameter tolerance
clip control
code sheet
colo(u)ring power
combined compressed air and hydraulic brake
compensating reactance
cornified layer
corrosion-resistant bearing
court of session
crack us
cuprous telluride
data proliferation
DCYD
Desmedipham
disposal of uncollected goods
double type wedge
en block cylinder
erlene
erradicate
Erraid
expressos
farmers' purchasing and marketing cooperative
flux concentrating ratio
frana
gateways
gift book
gigantolithic
GME-NAC
greenson
gymnorhinal
hamburger icons
head bandaging
intellectual power
Isodin
Jari, R.
keep something for a rainy day
kilo-grays
konditorei
lookout
luck through
Mabula
magnetic tapes
MIPR
mole fraction
net realizable value
noncoherent radar
offiss
ogee gable
omwf
on the stretch
ostracization
otoantritis
output of heat
overtrumping
paraphyte
partly convertible account
pharping
physiological biomass
polysialyltransferase
potassium tetraiodoaurate (III)
preconcerts
quasar
race memory
recruitment advertisement
renal epithelioma
reoccured
round-the-corner auger
salvadoris
scrotal septum
searchlight-type sonar
self modulation
self sucking pump
simple-bending
solid state magnetic module
songsheet
space density tapered array antenna
space research
squalidness
standard visual diffuse density
subceiling
superfixed
Talbot band
thanatophoric dysplasia
toll transmission selector
TOS us
transcarbonylation
tree node
unadaptabilities
vena sternocleidomastoideas
warmweather
wilkume