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
a Jamie
a-peltatin
aluminized tube
AS-pellionex-SAX
axonopus scoparius
back-scattering factor
Bartlett's tinamou
bateids
bearing classification
beginning of period
bigger'n
Black Wednesday
blendung
Bognor Regis
Braemar Hill
BT dubs
c3 receptor
cage chains
Catalan numbers
chast
colletotrichum sorauerianum
componental movement
contri
d'aubigny
data custodian
departmento
direction-giving beacon
dl-18-methyl-norgestrienone
DPS (data path switch)
draught ring
drider
dyeing theory
element complexity
energizing quantity
enter into security
Filipinism
fluid shortening
forded
frontrunners
goblinlike
gratuition coinage
homomorphs
horizontal distribution of erosion
How are things?
Hua Nan Commercial Bank,Ltd.
Hyasmonta
immensible
initial partial discharge voltage
interior pivot
jury rudder
kidney yang
kobuvirus
local tone
lupes
maintenance food
mixed-mode expression
monochoroethane
multi-voiced
multichannel coherence filter
nonpossession
over-perted
payable on arrival of steamer
polish rod hanger
Pomeranz-Fritsch synthesis of isoquinolines
postempiricists
problem severity
protomyces lactucae
pseudosymblepharis angustata
raitts
receding gums
registered tonnage
relief roads
restiffness
revert metallics
saddle focus
saltpetering
Schistosoma bovis
sea waterproof cable winding
self-diagnostic
semi-diurnal type
shock absorber filler screw
slot and crank drive
slumpability
speedy-cut
spoken word recognition
squat toilet
storage battery cell
Swisher County
taros
torricellia tiliifolia dc.
transplutonium element
trombe marine
trouble report
underlined letter
unfairer
vederala
Vuottas
women's shelter
writtenness
yrous
zero-sum game policy
zoku