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
'vette
accommodography
alkaline polymerization
Androsace strigillosa
Arboletas, Pta.
armored deck
articulated unit
automatic conveying
bloater paste
bobby off
Buntok-kecil
cerous sulfite
ch'u y?wu
Chachauda
chain delivery machanism
circular negotiation form credit
Con Son
conformity certificate
Council of Ephesus
crux criticorum
cushion bond
Cymbopogon winterianus
darier like epidermal nevus
Dasytricha
domestic operations
dynamic roll response
eastern subterranean termite
encoding specificity
endmark
enjoy rights
eustachy
finite subset
fumaginous
gear view window
genus aspergilluss
grumblingly
Haptorina
heteromerous lichen
higher rate
highest standard
Hodge's theorem
hog people
horizontal tube furnace
hymenolepiasis
hyrum
inclined tension stress
inspection trap
Investor's equity
joint gap
kantak
Kemidol
kremen
lane-emdem equation
lastra
leatherball
lindquists
logical array element reference
low dose pill
lunatic soup
Manalu
mash
menu costs
microseparators
minglest
multiple-scale system
net domestic product
no-call-no-show
Nueva Harberton
octanoylated
organomercurial compound
outer point
Pechiguera, Pta.
pepperiness
pilot piston
ploughing season
potyvirus lycoris mild mottle virus
Ramsey problem
reporting date of statistics
reptible
run over something
schoolday
scientific-atlanta
shear nut
simple pinch
spark energy
standard constant
strategic business unit
suborder heteropteras
Tierkloof
tubular diaphragm
tuman
tunhoof
turn the tables
unfixed sand
unistat
universal donor
wenpi decoction
where are you now
wolf's-head
Wysoka
yardsale
year of policy acceptance