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
-metrical
advisability
aggregate averaging
Anno Domini
anomala semicastanea
apothecary's Latin
attenuation time
be boun up with
behavioral biology
blower system
bolt in double shear
bracing aback
bsp method
bushshrikes
cbm
Chernyshevsk
chorioidal carcinoma
Circitous
coarse porosity
cobra-monil
cross-eyedness
cuviers
cybershopping
cysteine(Cys)
depreciation by working hours
dibenedetto
dicrotic
disaffectedness
double complex
downriver
economic need
emergency release push
emergency switch board
evolutionary system for data processing
excess jurisdiction
Figueroa, R.
filling weight
fuel pit top shield(ing) slab
geographic accuracy
Groot Karasberge
Gymnodiniaceae
hanging batten
hegiras
histogram equalization
hoofish
install on demand
inter-branch account
itemized deduction
jettees
kressbronn
lafenestre
layer topology
less-obvious
licls
Maddrell salt
mechanically operated semaphore signal
media vehicle
Miowas
Moghol
molybdenums
Muhammad 'Alī, Qanātir
nakatsu
network of gravity -magnetic survey
njenga
optomyomete
Polientes
radio firing device
Radiotherm
receiver for debenture holder
resegmenting
Riesz transform
Rin Tin Tin
rocker bearing
rynn
sawtooth punching machine
series control
shareability
shear motor
shut out
silencing hood
siliceous scheelite
solid front pressure gage
space separation
splenic angle
split-thickness free skingraft
standard D coupler
strap-hanger
tafias
take ... to court
tall oatgrass meadow
thermodynamic analysis of process
trend story
two's complementer
uberti
unteinded
urban radiation
vesicularity
wave paddle
wayside pavilion
went the distance
whisper test
win-win situation