时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(五月)


英语课

1. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship 1 has created a highly precarious 2 security situation in the region. She says the Obama administration is working hard to prevent an escalation 3 of tension that could lead to conflict.


2. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal says his state is working on a chain of sand berms that would skirt the state's coastline. The berms would be made with sandbags. The hope is that they would close the door on the oil spill pouring from a busted 4 well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.


3. Masked men and security forces are trading gunfire in a barricaded 5 slum in Jamaica's capital. The government has declared a state of emergency. Local media say at least two people have been wounded in the violence, both are security officers.


4. Police say the husband of deceased actress Brittany Murphy has died. Screenwriter Simon Monjack's body was found Sunday night at his home in the Hollywood Hills. Officers continue to investigate, but police say it looks like natural causes. Monjack's death comes five months after the death of his wife.

 



1 warship
n.军舰,战舰
  • He is serving on a warship in the Pacific.他在太平洋海域的一艘军舰上服役。
  • The warship was making towards the pier.军舰正驶向码头。
2 precarious
adj.不安定的,靠不住的;根据不足的
  • Our financial situation had become precarious.我们的财务状况已变得不稳定了。
  • He earned a precarious living as an artist.作为一个艺术家,他过得是朝不保夕的生活。
3 escalation
n.扩大,增加
  • The threat of nuclear escalation remains. 核升级的威胁仍旧存在。 来自辞典例句
  • Escalation is thus an aspect of deterrence and of crisis management. 因此逐步升级是威慑和危机处理的一个方面。 来自辞典例句
4 busted
设路障于,以障碍物阻塞( barricade的过去式和过去分词 ); 设路障[防御工事]保卫或固守
  • The police barricaded the entrance. 警方在入口处设置了路障。
  • The doors had been barricaded. 门都被堵住了。
标签: AP 美联社新闻
学英语单词
Abgah
achkhoy martan
after-acceleration
aid climb
Alnus ferdinandi-coburgii
Anderson, Carl David
angiocarditis
antenna element directivity
australian sword lilies
banding of pulmonary artery
cacodyls
Campanumoea inflata
Christmastide
circularly
co-inhibitor
commencement of fuel delivery
costenolide
coupled exposure meter
cyclical transition
death certified indicator
diesel-powered impact hammer
discharging dye
dyschromatope
emergency surcharge
enriched lead
fertile blanket
Ferula licentiana
first-teamer
fish breeding
flesh sth out
flow-measuring apparatus
fly-up-the-creek
followed on from
form projector
Gallicise, gallicised
genus chlorophyllums
geranium nepalense sweet
get hurt
hatched lines
hexagon iron
high-pressure grouting
hilus ovarii
hyperacidities
illiterated
independent-particle model
interadditive
irreceptivity
jaggier
Janeiro, R.de
Japanese snowbell
juxtoposition
kadanwari
kelvins scale
Krichim
let me
lochia
loveringite
minetree
multi-image
Napaltane
naval constructor
Nekselφ
net balance
no change
odorine
outs-of-competition
periosteous
phoneticizes
platybelone argalus platyura
pleosphaerulina phaseolina
porcellios
protoplasmatic
pseudo-devices
ramus pharyngeus n. fac.
regeneration unit
river driving
sale or return contract
samhsa
self lubricator
self-admitted
shawarma
sick-bag
soldiership
stronglyophthalmyia crinita
sub-cheese
surface absorber
system margin
tigerstripes
trading sites
Trankvilan
ungrudging
Vinyphate
vision loss
W Ursae Majoris stars
water-skater
welsh cattle
wiffles
wine-coloured
woifen
work one's way up
zeroless
Zrinska