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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angle struct
antivenin
berenger
Betaherpesvirinae
bill of freight
binary imaging
bioinoculants
Bonshtedtite
borers
cannal surface
CFCL
chart lamp
Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved
cupliker
detailed process
direct vision method
employer class
Endotrichella
flower market
GDP-FUE
hand-made nail
high-pressure water loop
hoisting ring
hospital switch
House of lord
impairment of a law
in considerable detail
IVG
Korinthou, Dhiorix
lay the axe at the root of
least bitterns
limited space-charge accumulat-ion
magnetic diverter
make a start
megamitochondria
microfossils
minced chichen
minces
mind the store
night differential
night-bus stop board
norfolk island pine
NSC-12165
oceanicas
of the blood
off-the-shelf integrated circuit
optical arm
oral briefing
orangeries
outer ring
over-roast
palaeolimnology
passion play
passioni
Pinters
platycoelous vertebra
pressure suit
prosethmoid
put on the brake
pyrenoid
Quilua
R.A.T.
rape whistles
rc oscillator
RD,R.D.
reaginic
renouncing probate
risk-weightings
ruffins
sagy
Sarnadas de São Simão
self concept
spaceimage
spring-opposed bellows
Suaeda paradoxa
surface drift velocity
table-fellowships
take to our bosom
telespectator
tell someone straight
the spoon
thixolabile
too-old
top connection
touch cell
TPTG oscillator
tropical rain forest?
tryne
turned
tuscarawas
Twoheaded I.
U.N.S. (upper neutron shielding)
ulstered
uncontrolled weir
Wapikhamthong, Khouèng
waterproof plug
withdraw offer
wood chisels
wrote down
zaladonis
zeps
zone of opacity