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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Acridinamine
adjustable attenuator
anchoritism
angle shaft
anta-cap
antioxidant in new oils
arrhizotonic
arrivals hall
asafa
atahuallpas
Ban Tanot Duan
bone fracture plate
brughas
calendars
chromatography with mobile adsorbent
colour gamut
crustal collision
CULTELLIDAE
cumulative dose equivalent
decomposition principle
derose
dines off
Diplococcus gonorrhoeae
draft apparatus
EASTLANT
easy slide fit
electric cataract
enwisen
extinct nuclide
farizs
flash eliminator
foster-sister
fund for providing the necessaries of life
genus dryopithecuss
gigabit point of presence
give it to someone hot
glasscocks
hand lay-up
high-line logging
hyperexcitabilities
incoming borrow
inhibition period
interrupted distributions
lightweight package
line lock
lineage structure
logic matrix
long-term fading
macrorhynchus
minervino
minorly
minutaglio
mucochloric anhydride
navigation standard of inland waterway
nerdify
neufs
non-1/v absorption
noncanceled
nondemocrats
nonlimiting ordinal
nonsteroidals
out-island
pansensism
partial mirror
parvas
peripherals,peripheral device
phosphoglucoisomerase
physicianed
Pitkin's solution
Plagiorhynchus
polar magnetic storm
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Putyatina, Ostrov
pyrozolin
quaquversally
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resource conflict
rissler
rough-terrain truck
Royal Rotterdam Zoological Garden Foundation
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saluss
saturday-sunday
sea plug
seasonal discount
sensitized medium
southern beech ferns
spent ferric oxide
starch settling
submicroscopic precipitate
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telegraph magnifier
tuberculosis of spine
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uvula cerebelli
wankas
warphans
Wiston collector