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
affeeble
amadetto
ardisioside
attribute sth to
autecious
Bacillus polypiformis
back boundary cell
bagenholm
ballasting of tank
ballpoint pens
Barsalogo
been there, done that, got the T-shirt
black halo
blockade balances
bobruns
bourgeoisifies
carcasing
chemical replacement
cold isostatic compaction
consequence management
custodialism
cut prices
decalibration
deformation resistance
degree of adsorption
dominican orders
double-dictionary
Doxazoline
eddi
eldest hand
electrostatic attraction
esophagostomiasis
feeder route
flase-killer whale
flattland
fondu(e)
gantry elevator
gasodynamic bearing
give control over
glass jalousies
Glutathioninuria
gobler
Goddelsheim
heating of turbine
hither-level programming language
hydraulic chuck
in one's teens
independent instigator
indigotin
ingrain color
integral controller
jaoch
kien
kinetics of particles
lanzhous
mucose
murkton
Napicladium
Neglect of Any Precaution
nonwoven
Northern Wakashan
Nou, I.
optical transmission mode
parthenogonidium (pl.parthenogonidia)
partial sum operators
Peking blue
penetration of extraction field
percent character
pillarizing
platy grain
prebaking annealing
private interest
professional ethics of certified public accountants
public exposures
push-posh current
quercus glandulifera brevipetiolata
rate of penetration(rop)
raypath curvature
reatctor trip
rembrandt van ryns
rubber baby buggy bumper
Sandimmun
Selvagens, Ilhas
silver cloud
sketch-map
skew aileron
slop bowl
Socinianizing
splintered fault scarp
take one's breath away
that you would run
to publish
tomatoless
two side limit cycle
unsymmetrical propeller thrust
Urriolla's test
vacuum carburization
variable-speed box
Wittelsheim
worked people
yenta