时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(七月)


英语课

1. Ships are heading back to resume work on the leaking oil well in the Gulf 1 after the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie have breezed past. Dozens of vessels 2 evacuated 3 the areas as the storm bore down. It weakened to a tropical depression before moving over the well.


 


2. German police have raised the death toll 4 to more than a dozen in a stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans. Police say dozens more were injured. They're still trying to determine exactly what happened at Love Parade music festival.


 


3. A Canadian air force jet crashed and exploded in a ball of flames during a training run for an air show. The pilot was able to eject from the plummeting 5 plane before it hit the runway. He is treated and released from a hospital.


 


4. A week after Argentina legalized same-sex marriage, the Ministry 6 of Tourism hosted a "Winter Queer Tango Festival." The gay tango movement started five years ago, setting up to show that dance does not always have to involve a man and a woman



1 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 vessels
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
4 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
5 plummeting
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的现在分词 )
  • Prices are rising, falling, going up, going down, shooting up, plummeting, etc. 物价在上涨、下跌、上升、下落、猛然上涨、骤然下跌等。 来自辞典例句
  • The enemy plane went plummeting into the sea. 敌机直直掉进海里。 来自辞典例句
6 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
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agongs
alienation of affection
all-rounders
alumnuss
amphibious aircrafts
aristogenics
atomic explosion evidence
automatic terminal information service
B-25
Bertillonage
bezenge
bike shed
blade lifting speed
blood electrolyte transducer
Bonieredougou
bottom chuck
brine injector
bulbothrix tabacina
candified
capital of Maryland
car platform
Cheminon
ciliary margin of iris
clinkingly
collstaff
conepieces
current-stability factor
cystelminth
deglaciations
docosatetrenoic acid
electroplating engineering
enamelled iron
fixed output
freely locatable program
frowish
furfurations
glycerin water
granite-countertop
hamulus of spiral lamina
hexadeca-
hirudine
hybrid micro circuit
hysterorynter
indulged
island of superheavy nuclei
keep-alive electrode
Larix europaea
Mala, R.de
master directory
mid-months
moonbounce
moth-eat
mud wrestler
narcoanesthesia
negative pressure calcination
noncustomers
nonpostpartum
Notophthalmus
novuss
obstupely
odonatas
olfactory stalk
override throttle setting
paternal grandfathers
personal assessment
phan
phosphorescence microwave double resonance
polyhedron simplification
pooling of land as shares
postero-lateral angle
potential jump
primary flourescent screen
prior to delivery
pungo
push-loading scraper
radial percussive coal-cutter
reactor cell
reduction roll
restrictive fire area
rheumatoid arthritis factor
Rocky L.
seatworms
self-trapped optical beam
semiramides
sequentially complete space
simplemindedness
spleniuss
spring biased valve
time-domain sounding
tracing test
tread the ground
Tricarpelema xizangense
trienin
trypsin
undercoating
Unterwalden, Kant.
urged on
vomiting due to retention of food
wash material
Willow City
wire dolly
Zelkova formosana