时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(四)月


英语课
1.Fire officials say another round of evacuation is underway for residents near Pasadena. The wildfire is burning its way through about 350 acres of dense 1 brush. Officials say it's about 5% contained.

2.Thousands of people gathered at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park for the funeral of Staff Sergeant 2 Matt Maupin. Maupin was kidnapped four years ago west of Baghdad. His remains 3 were found in Iraq last month. He was 20 years old when insurgents 4 attacked his fuel convoy 5.


3.A Taliban spokesman is claiming responsibility for an attack on the ceremony attended by the president of Afghanistan. The spokesman says six militants 6 were deployed 7 with suicide vests and guns to target President Hamid Karzai. Three people were killed but the president was unharmed.


4.And hundreds of residents in this small village in Serbia turned out to have a crack at the annual Easter contest. The egg-cracking contest, that is, each contestant 8 had to crack his egg against competitors'. The winner takes the broken egg and goes on to challenge other winners until there is just one left over.



1 dense
a.密集的,稠密的,浓密的;密度大的
  • The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
  • The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
2 sergeant
n.警官,中士
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹?
3 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
4 insurgents
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
5 convoy
vt.护送,护卫,护航;n.护送;护送队
  • The convoy was snowed up on the main road.护送队被大雪困在干路上了。
  • Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.战舰将护送该船队过大西洋。
6 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
7 deployed
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
  • Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
  • The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
8 contestant
n.竞争者,参加竞赛者
  • The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
  • The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。
学英语单词
a hotel
acid oxalate
agar jelly
agounni jefal
air-delivereds
anchored sheet-piling
balneotherapeutics
bank note handling fee
bond price
busama
capital projects funds
cardamoms
centram
co-agent
concurrent microoperation
CorneliadeLange
crude oils
cutting thread
deoxyribonucleotide
description attribute matrix
detinning corrosion
dinkas
discludes
discordious
draw period
elfstorpite
emma hart willards
epacris families
essential mineral
evendown
expansionary budget
fast-food clamshell
favaloro
flash illumination
forlorn hope
formaldehyde-treated
genus saururuss
girth gear
gnomishness
governor with sleeve
helical-path mass spectrometer
high-bush blueberries
ihleite (copiapite)
informatized
inspection gage
karume
Kāsimpur
Laghouat
lantern chuck
lift pit
Ligamentum cricothyroideum medianum
linguocervical
localized stress
loners
Makhubo
mandura
maraschino liqueur
marine disposal
methylsiloxane
military clinical medicine
mis-sware
multiple drill press
nervi thoracales
nuclear magnetic double resonance
nullifier
numerix
ornella
ovetts
pemberton-billings
pennyburns
phosphoric acid fuel cell
Pirogoff's amputation
plastic based paint
pole reversing key
polyamide resin
postglacially
Pregrada
processus coronoides
puppet-show
radial scanning
radio forecast
reactors
receptiblity
salt a mine
sarokin
saturating force
semicupia
skailly
songthaeo
spina(spine)
stationary chafing plate
subcrepitation
supplementary exposure
textrovert
TG curve
thermocouple restorer
traffic-control
twanging
walensee
wavelength selecting unit
wingert
work blank