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
acid cleaning
acid-proof galosh
activator centre
afore mentioned rules
afri
anatomical wart
annual marketing plan
asking for
Aurocein
birckman
black-boundary conditions
blastodisk layer
Boxing and coxing
bright-field microscopy
calculational twist
cane molasses
canephorus
cannot re-provision
Centronellidina
chak
ciobs
clear pulse
colloquiality
copter engine
courtesy flags
cynoglossums
darkslides
deaspirating
depreciation of value
derailleur
disclosure of other recipients service
display points per frame
donana
dynamics of growth processes
earphones coupler
electrically controlled birefringence
flour bag cleaning
French mustard
Glenn, John (Herschel)
grain size grade
have a skinful
hydroxyquinaseptol
ice chemistry
inactive money
Kazaure
leadance
Levonorepinephrine
line of country
liomera rugata
lost item
Lycopodiopsida
marketing efficiency
midsession
mildhede
mirkier
morula spinosa
mountain rose
mouse hares
multicellular counter tube
nantou formation
nondecreasing function
nutrient content
Out of the gate running
palaeopedological
partial non-disjunction
pecoraris
periodic(al)
polygenous (polygenic)
portal brace
postliminate
Pothomorphe
put them down
radial beam commutator tube
reverse tiller
rheoanthraglycosides
Roda de Bara
rueprecht asymmetrical beam
Sacile
seven-ups
Southeast Asia
sportman
stored procedures
subgradient algorithm
surveys of attitudes
suturae implanta
taxi-boat
Thindaw
toolpushers
traumatic myelopathy
triadelphy
Ukrainian alphabet
ULBW
unadaptabilities
unstrands
v-beam
value proposition
Venula macularis inferior
Verkhnedneprovskiy
visibility-after-fracture test
winter melon vines
Yalobusha County