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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advertocracy
again-with
AGGS
Alaska Oil and Gas Association
arbitratrix
atmospheric removal
autotrain
backward test channel
Basses-Pyrénées, Dép.de 1a
beltons
Binh Chanh
biostability
brookites
brown stem rot
coastal engineering ship
copper smelting
corpus juris
counter-frequency meter
craniotopography
cycloanemization
deathair
development well
Dimitri's disease
displeased
ditriglyphic
dodecaploidization
Doubleday
doxaprams
DuBois-Reymond's key
electric plug
epicadmium flux
especie
firebasket
flatout
fuel flow pressure
full cost pricing
gatepost
genus peltiphyllums
ghastly
glyoctamide
Granite Mountains
headforemost
heheterochronia
honkala
hyphenize
improper person
intermixingly
leaf plucker
leather working gloves
lever-type dial gage
Lezgin
machine taper pin reamer
make the investment inefficient
Malecites
marine gas turbine engine
mollissimas
multimode waveguides
notarised
obeising
olympic motto
optimal deterministic schedule
optional test
paint thinner
panama canvas
pathometabolism
pentynoic acid
personal defence weapon
philips inventory control technique
Phobosuchus
plough back
post mortem time
PPLC
precise positioning
product-relateds
pubilc value
reactor coolant (circulating ) pump
Revelation of Christ
rice vermicelli in box
risk-return analysis
rough scuff
Samsam
Santorinian
separated isotope
serial receive control signal
silent block
Sinclair's glue
space-fillers
spiroil
starbright
stiff straw
sybron
tail tower
Tataouine
technoscientifically
Teifi, Afon
temboes
tore of reflection
upper colonnade
vellus olivae inferioris
wallendorf
yam bean
ziggurats