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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2-quinaldine
allodesmism
analytical scale
angle of chord
antihemphilic factor
at law
automated software engineering
branch on condition clear
brevipedunculata
browis
calisto
cargo record book
cephalochord
commente
commercial bill eligible for rediscounting
cricket pitches
crocein scarlet 3bx
cross arms front head
curing stress-coat
damphu
darods
deep ophthalmic nerve
design unit
DHF/DSS
diminazene
display input device
docktor
dominik
double shrouded impeller type sand-pump
drill pointing machine
elapsed times
Euonymus myrianthus
fart about/around
fast breeder (power) station
fetch a circuit
flashings
for no other reason but
Gee-Herter-Heubner syndrome
globetrot
greenlit
grievous wounding
grumler
hand print data entry terminal
hex(o)estrol
hydrazinolyses
ice flooding
jendra
jnl
last slice device
Latinists
look back from the plough
MBT
Melastoma malabathricum
Melipona
Meptid
Meyer's method
movings
Muang Va
negative emotion
neognathous
NETF
not by any manner of means
Ossetes
outofplumb
owh
parboiling tank
perent of deafness
phoropter
plumb the depths of
poly-some
precast pattern block
precluding
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quartz lamps
riding-master
right lobe of liver
root growth of some cowpea cultivars
ropica honesta
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sizeable enterprise
skazine
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spirit colour(s)
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timesave
transformation process of word
tuberculum anterius vertebrarum cervicalium
tunein
twin longitudinal bulkhead
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unjust judge
urachovesical
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weldless pipe
Wendlandia oligantha
what would you like
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