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
Alassio
alkaliresistant
ampullar
armed islamic groups
bacterial endotoxin
beavens
beer-tokens, beer-vouchers
ben tree
Besut
bialkali photocathode
Bontberg
branch connector
bromelein
calculation of effective value
calloways
cape hood
Carpentier ring
Ch'angdo
circular-measure
cold-rolled carbon spring steel
combated
complete graph
continuous running signal
crankshaft piston compressor
cream colour
cryogenic coil
defects liability period
denticulate ring
drain collecting system
e sharp
environmental qualification
esrun
exterior container
finishing paint
forevermores
fuel barrier
Gentiana pudica
genus alouattas
gerlogubi (gedlegube)
gitterned
Gosse, Sir Edmund William
home schooled
Horn of Africa
inlet water
Istebné
kingsmere
knal
knock off one's feet
landscape development of highway
light duty flooring
Lublinite
mannerance
media-literacy
methylbenzylamine
micro command
Middle Border
modular N arithmetic
modularity of system packaging
multibook
myopathic spasm
near-zone sounding
necessity for life
Nehushta
Nencki reaction
Niegosławice
normal curves
out-of-power
paraxial ray tracing
partes sacralis
pittosporum sahnianum gowda
pole field
poussie
previous year
qinghua university
quantized response
quantum merit
regulare
sailboarder
sandbreak forest
Schiwanox
sectorial tides
spectral index
sperm -nucleus
starting air bottle
stored liquid plasma
subjectto immediate reply
subsolar point temperature
sup-plementing
thermodynamic branch
time attack
titty-twister
tropism
unrespectfulness
urban family
ureic
vicem
washing filtrate
waterrepellent finish
web-fed
well salt
wet cutting
youngest empty cell