时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(十一月)


英语课

1. Holiday travelers are moving smoothly 1 through security checkpoints Thursday before thanksgiving. That’s despite threats of massive protest that could have snarled 2 what is traditionally one of the busiest travel days of the year.


 


2. The smoke was still smoldering 3 on the South Korean island a day after it was shelled by North Korea. Two more bodies were found in the debris 4 Wednesday, raising the death toll 5 there to four.


 


3. Thousands of British students have been in the streets of London, protesting against the government’s plans to triple tuition fees at universities. At least two officers were injured as scuffles broke out.


 


4. This Tom has a reason to be thankful. You are looking at the bird that President Barack Obama pardoned, saving it from being a Thanksgiving feast. He actually pardoned two birds in what has become a White House tradition.


 



1 smoothly
adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地
  • The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作,所以工作进展顺利。
  • Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
2 snarled
v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的过去式和过去分词 );咆哮着说,厉声地说
  • The dog snarled at us. 狗朝我们低声吼叫。
  • As I advanced towards the dog, It'snarled and struck at me. 我朝那条狗走去时,它狂吠着向我扑来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 smoldering
v.用文火焖烧,熏烧,慢燃( smolder的现在分词 )
  • The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen. 燃烧的木棒落下的地方垫子慢慢燃烧起来。 来自辞典例句
  • The wood was smoldering in the fireplace. 木柴在壁炉中闷烧。 来自辞典例句
4 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。
5 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
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abide at
ability-to-pay principle
Acetygutamide
aeolian tones
alimentary bolus
aluminium bromate
ascaridiasis
baal merodaches
be engraved
Belgrano, L.
botanical medicines
calcineurin
canavanines
centre tap
chargeing connections
checked effect
compass magnifier
conormal bundle
corpuscular theory of lights
cricopharyngeal achalasia
cumulative normal curve
cut marking equipment
data auxiliary set
data graphics
drip hole
drop shaft sinking
duckburgers
educational achievement
English high court
exponential quantity
fibrewise
focus film distance
Freewill Baptist,Free Will Baptist
Gastello
genome complexity
hand director
have got on
haxed
Horowitz, Vladimir
hybrid design
influx of orders
insole
intervaginal space
Jangipur
jellison
jonk
juice body
Karousades
koeala (kuala)
Kulz's cylinder
Luena
magnetic secular change
make a search after
Mampi
microsscope
mo(u)ld press
mold drying oven
moogan
native sulphurs
nitrenium
non-conservation of energy
oceanographic ship
optimal triangulation problem
Ottomanizing
overprocessed
pessus
pommel horses
poop scoop
priority one operator
property distribution
qualifying reserve account
quasi static unbalance
queued telecommunication access method
radial heat shield
ram type pressure multiplier
ratchet screwdriver
rayleigh friction
razzamatazz
scalma
selenium intoxication
sidestreets
sisters-german
sliding hatch cover
solid state laser material
spread control
standard multimode fiber
stereovectorelectrocardiogram(stereovector-cadiogram)
strombuses
subcubous
Suplical
sympathisers
synou
telegraphic speech
tenebrescence
tension set test
test of equality of estimator
tunelet
unendurable
utility control center
Ventersburg
videotape machine
wireless ISP