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 sweetheart
adjustment of condition equations with unknowns
Aleutian Basin
Amsterdam Time
Asian dust
asteroid ring
average run length
base coordinate
base forms
batie-bum
Beulaville
blast wire
Carvajal syndrome
close the stable door after the horse has been has bolted
cohobating
complex vector lattice
conformally flat
deck carline
decreasing consumption loop
dining companions
diplomellituria
DL-CarnitineCarnitine
dubiously
earth load gauge
earth response function
ekumen
end tape
financial arbitrage
foolocracy
full aduance
gaiji
galawis
geochemical dispersion
GM_surely
Grimmialp
habit of mind
heterograft
hot idle compensator
ice-
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impulse maneuver
insensitivity index
intrauterine insemination
ion-nitriding furnace
Joffe
Keilin-Hartree particles
leather working
left signal
levee management
loaded governor
manganese tetrachloride
maximum effective temperature
mean annual range
missest
moea
molybdenum-reinforced nickelbase alloy
Myosotis alpestris
Ngolo, Chutes de
non-penetrating particle
nonsubordinates
on-line program testing system
operiment
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penetration factor
pinmh-coc
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pot-holders
potassium peroxice
preexport financing
probit method
processers
protectoin
Puger
quadrant error
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ray parameter
reflective optics
Rhododendron fictolacteum
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russo-japanese
self-parodying
semisatirical
sequential flash
seriphus polituss
shadow cabinet
shadow page
shalbes
Silfrastadhir
Sol IV
stickit ministers
surface roughness profiling instrument
talk game
tartare steak
telial
Trakiszki
transfer coating
tucson mts.
Vaccinium pseudorobustum
Villaviudas
voice storage service program
wanderingss