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 rich cake
access control word
accredit
adjustable swivel chair
alkoxycarbonyl
alternate planting
Ashar (virus)
beg pardon
Beregovoye
broaden business
business type budget
byte count oriented procedure
cassins
Charibert I
chiaroscurists
coal-gettings
commixing
common-battery telephone switchboard
cross-pumped laser system
croxton
Cyclooctanone
Cyril Burt
deep auricular muscles (rotator muscles)
derived fossils
dielectric printing
diuvaretin
double-shear lap riveting
electro sensor panel
engine cranking motor
epi-tectonic
equi-normal distribution
esra
Esso Petroleum
file transferability
firm invoice
flash circuit
Fleitmann's tests
flow transducers
fuel-reprocessing cell
gas test
genus Viscum
gingival margin
Glottograph
grandship
guurti
handwriting expert
hearing aid correction
Heubner's specific endarteritis
honkey, honkeys
IAAG
inexprimable
international system of unit
lactitol
life space
limnanth
lvi
malabathrum
manning and executive development charts
maximum-performance take-off (mpto)
Messys
meta object facility
micro rolling ball bearing
milk ring test
naubut khana (n. india)
odenite
olivids
on the horns of a dilemma
owies
parliamentary privilege
phono motor
political pluralism
power break down
pradakshina
refractory pot
resynchronisation
s.m.t.
season of growth
self-accusations
senseless
shriek owl
signal transfer delay
snack bars
splitting commission
Stellant-chasmus falcatus
stimulus key
stitch quality
SUBSHIP
talaromyces wortmannii
Tenbury Wells
terminal keyboard
Thamnidium
thelepin
third country bill
trouble came back
unmanufactured
upskill
validities
vanadium trisulfide
Vogel-Colson-Russell effect
wurtz-Fitting reaction
Yialousa