时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(十月)


英语课

 


1. A Virginia man is arrested and indicted 1 on charges he planned to bomb Washington subway system, budding with people he believed were al-Qaeda operatives. The FBI says they knew the plan all along, the public never in danger. The 34-year-old is a naturalized citizen born in Pakistan.


 


2. The same storm that blew through the Midwest brings powerful winds to the south, possibly tornados 2. Debris 3 littered the ground in Tennessee, near Charlotte, North Carolina, homes collapsed 4.


 


3. More devastation 5 from the earthquake and tsunami 6 in Indonesia. Aerial inspection 7 revealing the extent of the damage. The disasters killed more than 300 people, many more are missing.


 


4. It took an X-ray to finally nail down what was wrong with this basset hound in Colorado. It turns out Sophie swallowed 31 roofing nails, her rabies tag and siding from the house. $3,500 later, Sophie is feeling much better.

 



1 indicted
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
2 tornados
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
  • They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网
3 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
4 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
5 devastation
n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤
  • The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
  • There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
7 inspection
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
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学英语单词
2b film
air to ground ranging
airborne transmitter
antiquites
antiscolic
ash analysis
ballistic missile
beam-deflection
beer tents
behaviour at sea
Bentley temptrol oxygenator
bill of document
Biphenyldicarboxylate
black up
call out for
canceller output
carbon monoxide-hydrogen mixture
Catawba County
cenchrus ciliariss
chaft
cheilitis exfoliativa actinica
collectibless
counterordered
credit account
customs and traditions
deep jet fermentor
downstream relative permeability
dynamic brake gto
E. B.
electromagnetic latch mechanism
environmental vegetation index
establishes
exburse
explosion-proof centrifugal blower
fauteuil vibratoire
filix extract
fixed course range
FPSes
free passage
freeze-replica
fuel dope
gatooma (kadoma)
gillock
grinding face
half-sack
have someone's number
head of phalanx
henotheisms
homotopy
honore
hot-cold lysis
housing need
immunoglobulin gamma chain
inorganic species in seawater
international control frequency bands
jauralde
kimberlite pipes
landed society
larved
li peng
Luteocrin
marketing basis
Meander River
movedata
multi stationery set
napper
navia
nucleonic level indicator
obols
Old Glory
ortho boric acid
Pipracil
Plougonver
polysulfide polymer
premarital agreement
productive zone
professional role cognition
quadrisonics
resonance line satellite
rose form the ashes
sanctioneers
sandwave
Saxifraga valleculosa
semi-
serifless
shate
short addendum system
side-aisles
sound pressure transmission coefficient
standelwelks
staphylococcal bacteria
state-directed
stream socket
supply without obligation
survivalist
taxation proceeding
tidied out
Transjordan
Traube's corpuscles
vegetation mapping
Vena portae hepatis
Zirkel, Ferdinand