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 party animal
absitomen
Access group.
alphabet
ambagitory
androstadienes
angiombrine
around-the-world
art collector
bactopeptone
becards
bistable fluid amplifier
boards of selectmen
bolton twill
bread(ed) product
Chern number
Chilcot
codeaminase
combination interlock relay
court jesters
decimal pointer
Decimal.
deposit funds
direct-coupling amplifier
dorsal inertia position
dorsal tegmental nucleus
East-country
edith
envigorated
erauts
esmopal
extra-heavy combination of vehicles
extracting machine
fast and loose pulley
feeding centre
ferropyrosmalite
file management facilities
fluorescence polarization immunoassay
furnace flue
give one's best
home on
ILLUM
Java black-rot
kahane
kenerly
Kipling, Rudyard
life coach
Ligamenta alaria
mahanimbinine
mass polymerization
mesonic molecule
metabolomes
metallic protection
mousin'
movie-watching
multikilowatt
music identification
nervous urine
neuromodulators
nuisance variables
ozcan
panmnesia
Pathet Lao
peak switching current
perine
person on shore
phyllospheric microorganism
pilot officer
pressure points
producer goods,producer's goods
promise to
protected goods
quadratic hypersurface
radius arm
rate-of-return
Rhabditis-form
right-winger
scratch video
selfstyled
Smaris
Smith Sound
softballs
South American fox
square-law modulatro
St. Maarten
strain-gauging
sufferfest
sugar
tactic decisions
taking out of
telebridges
telepyrometer
trick
trouser department
universal instance assumption
vanish from
Velvet paws hide sharp claws
wage board
white-and-red
work-people
Wudjavrite
yerbury