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。
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accidental base point
accumulator plant
acinesia amnestion
Adenosma indianum
aeromodel
angel of death
atmokausis
backstreaming
badly battered and mauled
Banās, Ra's
Bing's entotic test
boozling
buserelin
ceraunomancy
chlorohydrin synthesis
cinepanoramic
coars
comparator
control gate
core strickle
cosmic-ray flux
counter stop
crowned bit
defyingly
dichotomy
diffusion air pump
diffusive dialysis
dildoing
Dolichonyx oryzivorus
down ... street
dredge corn
drop jerk
dry-labbed
economic capacity of land
effectivley
emitter base diffusion transistor
enterotype
equal-status
Eurasian otter
fastrunning
fightin'
fili
functional derivative
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
grid mode
groscolas
GTPU
gullywashers
Habenaria stenopetala
halfhidden
heat shock protein
heavy derrick boom
hojah
honey-scenteds
hot wire ammeter
identical copies
incorporeal
indiscernible
intrinsic equations of a curve
isotropic term
jaw-thrust
kilorads
kumari
load shock
lobate rill mark
lockout impulse
Machadinho, I.
made an attack on
made sure of
man-machine matching
Margerie-Hancourt
marssonia puerariae sawada
mittag
monish
multilocula
multiplexer regenerator address
nemacystus decipiens (suringar) kuckuck
neuroanatomies
not the least
osculating sphere
parallel slalom
Perekop
philatelical
phosphorus compound
pigsicles
pot-hunt
precision flatnosed pliers
radiated pipe
radioimmunosorbent
rare alkaline metal
reality of life
scaredy pants
siderotyl (siderotil)
stress-strain behaviour
strix alucoes
Sucha Beskidzka
the paralympic games
theophylline-N-nethylglucamine
thermoanalytical technique
tracking down converter
turf sprinkler system
Wurm