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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accokeek
aftercurrent
antiballistic missile early warning system
Ban Nam Om
benzilic acid
biomechanism
bitch nigga
blaustein
built-in bathtub
bulla a frigore
bumpable
cartridge valve
colour burst gating pulse
Commagene
consolidateth
constraint
credal
cyber-terrorist
diamond-skin disease
dihydroxy-azo-benzene
dilatation parenchyma
distributed application environment (dae)
Doce River
drop jaw
edge-phenomena
elementary operation
Ennerdale Fell
explosive process
find an entrance into
first year face
fluoranthenequinone
fluorescence quenching constant
focal film register
gaffled
gelatinations
General Average Sacrifice of Freight
genus Sphyrapicus
go into liquidating
graing caviar
half-finished material
haye
hexagonal prism
hideki tojo
high-voltage silicon stack
IRRD
jequerity
Kussmaul's breathing
life boat station
line drip signal
lingu-
linteled
localized molecular orbital (LMO)
lumped parameter integrated circuit
Machilus verruculosa
maraldi
mental control
metasesarma aubryi
Nasutitermitinae
order Aristolochiales
overflow cavity
parvenant
peacock-thrones
pedatest
periodic damping
perturbed structure
photofluorograms
plank clod mashers
positive half wave
pressure decline
program status word register
pseudouridine
queerize
railway freight traffic organization
rainbow glass
ratio set
repours
seguenziid
self-outlawed
self-slagging impurity
single equation model
single-wall buttress
Siroro
splanchnapophysial
stony bottom
storage loss
struma endothoracia
talking-shop
target purity
tear-thumb
There's not much point in doing something.
tolerateth
trellis girder
Tully-Fisher relation
twin-head tandem arc-welding machine
tyeken
typewriter terminal
typhlodromus gracilentus
unaccredited
uterine isthmus
wylt
ZYC