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
-desis
aft end face of boss
al ghat
areca
autosomal lethal gene
axiomatic proof
bet one's shirt upon
bosonised
brainscan
brashears
Cantharellus floccosus
Charibert I
closed-mindeds
coke replacement
common barley
continuous time system
cossid
cryoprecipitation
cushion beam
dasoguz welayaty (dashkhovuz oblast)
debugging technique
Demba
deragger
division book
document against acceptance
domestic animal feeding
Ebenfurth
ejectisome
epilims
euchelus atratus
fecial
financial journalist
finger grid
flinging off
flow-induced
foundation framework
Fruehjahr catarrh
Gargalianoi
Geser, Pulau
gigsman
grammar rules
greco-latin
hermaphroditic pouch
herpochondria elegans
high top pressure capability
hydrophobicity plot
hypnotizeable
infrictions
interest groups
ironwood tree
isoflurophate
Joule experiment
large associative processor
lepra trophoneurotica
lithol fast orange r
Lungwa
lutung
metapenaeus elegans
misprocess
mixerlorry
Mocanal
mont-fort
muconates
muscite
nonprogressive full application
paffle
Palomar Sky Survey
partial mast
perpetual rose
pornstache
power proof press
previous frame prediction
proportional treaty
public trial
radiation-type density meter
redlynches
Reichelsheim
rent party
rise and falling saw
rotatory polarized light
sasse
scummier
security leak
self-initiating antiaircraft munition
silicate inclusion
sned
source admittance
stann
stare after
striation cast
sungates
Teltag
three-point mooring
thyrotrophin releasing factor
Traube's corpuscles
trematosaurids
vena cerebri medias
viscosity slope
water pockets
White Peony scented tea
who says?
wind wave breaking