时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(七)月


英语课

1. Australia's Qantas Airlines has been ordered to urgently inspect every oxygen bottle aboard its fleet of Boeing 747s. Investigators 1 are focusing on the idea that an oxygen cylinder 2 might have exploded mid-flight, ripping a hole in the side of the plane. The plane had to make an emergency landing. No one was injured.


2. At least 45 people are dead and more than 100 injured after a series of blasts in India. Officials say up to 16 blasts went off Saturday night. Several Indian cities have been hit by serial 3 blasts in recent months. The attacks have been blamed on Islamic militants 4.


3. Senator Barack Obama is back in Chicago this morning. The Illinois senator returned from his overseas trip Saturday night. Obama is set to address a convention in Chicago today. His Republican opponent John McCain has no public events on his schedule today.


4. The pitcher 5 at the center of that minor 6 league baseball fight is now out of jail. Julio Castillo faces assault charges after hitting a fan in the head with a baseball. Castillo threw the ball during this brawl 7. If convicted, he could get up to eight years in prison.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. cylinder: n.


A cylinder is an object with flat circular ends and long straight sides.


2. brawl: n.


a noisy quarrel or fight among a group of people, especially in a public place.


 



1 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 cylinder
n.圆筒,柱(面),汽缸
  • What's the volume of this cylinder?这个圆筒的体积有多少?
  • The cylinder is getting too much gas and not enough air.汽缸里汽油太多而空气不足。
3 serial
n.连本影片,连本电视节目;adj.连续的
  • A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
  • Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗?
4 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。
5 pitcher
n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
6 minor
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
7 brawl
n.大声争吵,喧嚷;v.吵架,对骂
  • They had nothing better to do than brawl in the street.他们除了在街上斗殴做不出什么好事。
  • I don't want to see our two neighbours engaged in a brawl.我不希望我们两家吵架吵得不可开交。
学英语单词
allocated band
angustum
Ban Si Sa
Ban Tamrong Phatho
Bates, Herbert Ernest
be bent double
biduk
blackadders
box dimension
bozos
breach of law
brentubine
bureit
callots
camber angle adjusment
carbo-benzyloxyl
cash settled equity linked instrument
class i appliance
cloth envelop collector
coarchitect
complete inelastic collision
confessorship
cordyceps nutans pat
critical voltage difference
cupola working bottom
cyclotella meneghiniana
defects in timber
Deutzen
drools
ecostratigraphy
enchromosome
Euglenales
fistula of submaxillary gland
Flavobacteriales
Flexible Stainless Steel Pipe
flow cytophotometry
flowering plants
Fly R.
folghthe
gear changing arrangement
genus Gloriosa
genus Loxia
ghettofabulous
granulated ammonium nitrate
Greenland Sea
halfstaturated
Hardware components
have a kick in it
hepatopancreases
holorhinal
hoochie mamas
image regeneration
infrared link access protocol
Ingstrup
inhauler inhaul
intraurban
Jambangan, Gunung
krups
ladle shank
levshins
light penetration
low pressure test cell
macro skeleton
magnet type
Mennucci
mentally incompetent
mizerion
neutron decoupling experiment
off-the-beaten-tracks
optimal system
otoscleroses
pavement prism
ph-dependence
photoheliographs
pop-eye
pre-pressed cake
preente
Racza Wielka (Vel'ka Rača)
radixesradices
Ramapo Mountains
reallocated
sandwich hybrid composite
Schwarzen
selective jamming
service command
simsim
sleeperettes
SLFIA
synchronized signal generator
tac invariant
technical advisory work
tense
through-type goods yard
to talk over
total operation expense
towing analysis
track population
trustee de son tort
Tsuga tchekiangensis
uranoids
urmias
weather observation ship