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. The White House says President Barack Obama is outraged 1 over North Korea’s artillery 2 attack against the South Korean island. Two South Korean marines were killed and the country’s president says Seoul will unleash 3 an enormous retaliation 4 should North Korea attack again.


 


2. Just like the pilots, airline flight attendants will now be able to skip the stepped-up security procedures at airports. This comes at the height of the busy Thanksgiving travel weekend when many passengers are upset over the screenings.


 


3. We've got a date and place for the upcoming royal wedding. Officials say Prince William will marry fiancée Kate Middleton here at Westminster Abbey on April 29th. Word is Kate's family as well as the royal family will foot most of the bill.


 


4. The American League’s MVP award is heading to Texas. Slugger Josh Hamilton is claiming the hardware after he helped lead the squad 5 to its first World Series in franchise 6 history.


 



1 outraged
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
2 artillery
n.(军)火炮,大炮;炮兵(部队)
  • This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
  • The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。
3 unleash
vt.发泄,发出;解带子放开
  • They hope to create allies to unleash against diseases,pests,and invasive species.他们希望创造出一些新群体来对付疾病、害虫和一些有侵害性的物种。
  • Changing water levels now at times unleash a miasma of disease from exposed sewage.如今,大坝不时地改变水位,从暴露的污水释放出了疾病瘴气。
4 retaliation
n.报复,反击
  • retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
  • He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 squad
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
6 franchise
n.特许,特权,专营权,特许权
  • Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.学校餐饮服务以特许权经营。
  • The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.美国于1920年给妇女以参政权。
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aberrant personality
abortive infection
affect-memory
anteclises
antefixa
axis of freedom
babble signal
balance wheels
belles-lettres
biased sample
blandiloquently
blutpunkte
bottle collections
branched secondary amine
cardos (los cardos)
central sleep apnoea
cohomology of a coproduct
common radishes
complex geophysical prospecting
daquiris
de Laval nozzle
DG (diesel generator)
diaspense
disputed
drive chain guard
Dunbaria villosa
eighth-ranked
end instrument
face ring
fish horn
fluorescence spectrum
fluorosugar
Fokidos, Nomos
foreign branch plant
frenchman r.
Gausk
gougere
half round countersunk head bolt
high speed turning tool
holodiastolic
ideological barriers
individual labour
inductance measuring meter
inside legs
isometric flowsheet
Ixora gracilis
karyostenosis
kelkal
lack of money
loading track
locally homomorphic
millionist
Mr.Big
natural isotope mixture
ordavician period
Paradombeya
Phormidium tinctorium
phylogenetic memory
police chief
polyribosome(polysome)
pomquet
posterior limb
potash-lime glass
Pseudanthistiria
rapidly switched tube
reserve oneself for
roseheart radish
Ross, Cape
rubber conveyor belt
safe productivity
sciatic vein
screening level
serrated profile
squib kicks
stage lighting units
standby network link group
stratigraphic amplitude
strontium bisulfite
suborder tarsioideas
syllabic nasal
take one's mutton with someone
test of equality of estimator
the carera back masking method
thif
Thong Hai Xieng
Tobli
tombarthite- (y)
transmitted electron image
Traube's curves
trilacunar
unentertaining
uplifters
upper arm cross hang
uterine crypts
vacuum-valve receiver
venofibrosis
vortex interference effect
water-rock
well meant
windlass traction
wire file