时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年6月


英语课

1. The upper Mississippi River in Missouri and Illinois is about to hit its high point. The National Weather Service says the river will crest 1 in some places Sunday and other locations Monday. Despite widespread flooding, water levels did not reach records set in 1993.


2. Saudi Arabia says it will produce more oil if customers need it. But King Abdullah says production levels aren't the cause of record high oil prices. He blames speculators, high fuel taxes and increased oil consumption 3 in developing economies.


3. A typhoon pounded the Philippines with sustained 4 winds of 74 miles an hour. It knocked out power in the capital Manila. It's also blamed for capsizing a ferry carrying more than 700 people. So far, only 10 survivors 5 have been counted.


4. Tom Brokaw will host NBC's "Meet the Press" through the fall election. The move gives the most-watched Sunday talk show some stability 6 following the sudden death of Tim Russert. NBC hasn't said who will host after November.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. speculator 2: n.


someone who buys goods, property,shares in a company etc, hoping that they will make a large profit when they sell them.


2. pound: v.


If you pound something or pound on it, you hit it with great force, usually loudly and repeatedly.


3. knock out: v.


to damage something so that it does not work.


4. capsize: v.


if a boat capsizes, or if you capsize it, it turns over in the water.



1 crest
n.顶点;饰章;羽冠;vt.达到顶点;vi.形成浪尖
  • The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
  • He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。
2 speculator
n.投机者,投机商人,思索家
  • He was a sinister and crafty speculator.他是一个险诈的投机商。
  • The stake was large,and Harkness was a daring speculator.赌注不小,而哈克尼斯又是一个大胆的投机家。
3 consumption
n.消费,消耗,消费额,消耗量,结核病
  • Consumption of oil has declined in recent years.石油消耗量在最近几年下降了。
  • The meat was condemned as unfit for human consumption.这种肉已被宣布不适宜人们食用。
4 sustained
adj.持久的,持续的v.维持( sustain的过去式和过去分词 );支撑;忍受;长期保持
  • Without correct leadership, the enthusiasm of the masses cannot be sustained. 没有正确的领导,群众的积极性就不可能持久。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He has sustained a great loss by the death of his father. 他父亲的去世使他蒙受巨大的损失。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
6 stability
n.稳定,稳固
  • The situation is tending towards stability.局势趋于稳定。
  • She lacks emotional stability.她的情绪不稳定。
学英语单词
abstract factory pattern
achroocytosis
avolate
Balkan Oblast
be caught in a cleft stick
be indifferent to
beam-foil technique
cadmium screen
cannot-link
capacity constraint vector
car type conveyor
chart-based
chrematophobia
circuit representation
classification of costs by function
cmsr
composite bulkhead
conflabs
control character printout
correlatives
crewels
cross-inlet water turbine(cross turbine)
database builder
design guideline
Dongué
eighteen-minute
electronic annunciator
eurycephalic
eyecream
factorage
false goatsbeards
festgoers
front-rower
full depth pear
gay-friendly
go, man go
hanged on
hard copy file
hypophosphatasaemia
incredited
increment of hour angle
International Standard Book Number
it's Greek to me
john-paul
karl adolf eichmanns
Kālinjara
lastes
lewy
linear potential
longitudinal profile
Makamba, Prov.de
Mark Rothko
marketing value
Maňeru
mittes
moderating effect
molten-salt container
monetary economics
murcer
Nizhneilimsk
on the loaf
ordinary telegrah communication
oscillating sieve
P'angyo
paired selected ternary
paratrichius vittatus
peske
phacellate
plate-handling crane
plexus ophthalmicus
plumba
poynting polarimeter
precast concrete block flue
pressed stem
quadripartites
radiation luminescence
real-time scanner
rhamphoid
right-eyed flounder
Rockland Res.
run untrue
sand disc
Schraplau
sector-focused cyclotron
selenetaen
shore pit viper
shortall
simians
slope grader
Stapelfeld
steer committee
step servomotor
stereo-regularity
striving for superiority
supporting plate
swivel wheel head
tab welder
ultrasonocardiotomogram
unboundable
Viola acutifolia
where one is coming from
Zboriv