时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(八)月


英语课

1. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took the stage with his newly selected running mate Joe Biden today. Obama says the Democratic senator from Delaware is uniquely suited to help him put the country back on track.



2. Tropical Storm Fay is wrapping up its disastrous 1 slog across Florida by making a record fourth landfall on the Panhandle's coast. Florida authorities have raised the death toll 2 to eleven. Across the Florida Peninsula, communities are cleaning up the damage from torrential rain that flooded homes and destroyed crops.



3. Thousands of Georgians are rallying against the continued presence of Russian troops in a key port city. Russia says it plans on patrolling the region, even though the US and France say the area lies outside of the ceasefire agreement Russia signed earlier this month.



4. You can call them "the golden girls" . The US women's basketball team has once again taken the top spot of the Olympics. The squad 3 cruised to victory over Australia to nab its fourth consecutive 4 Olympic gold.


 



WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online



1. cruise:  v.
If a team or sports player cruises to victory, they win easily. (JOURNALISM)



2. Florida Peninsula:  n. 佛罗里达半岛



1 disastrous
adj.灾难性的,造成灾害的;极坏的,很糟的
  • The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
  • Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨,血本无归。
2 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。
3 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。
4 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
学英语单词
alkylatable
amendment of judgment
apostemes
attache
background ions
boiling bulb
breastbone
bts color code
cliseometer
colytropia
come to much
comprador class
cone filter
cspp
default values
destigmatize
Don, River
door-knob
DVD-VCD
dynamic damping
EHF-MCAB
einstein-hopf
employment discrimination law
equity growth dilemma
Eropodiaceae
exocytic
fair list
field descriptor
flight envelope
garage sale
gasoline motor car
generalized fluxes
gingivopericementitis
gradual reduction
hemopressin
historifying
incorporeities
initial block
inquiry display terminal
inviolability
jaud
jaw type crusher
jull
khader
lard mixing and cooling machine
lateral process system
layer mixing plow
lazy-ass
Leros, Nisos
lip runner
loss of radio control
lumped capacitance
Magnus-de Kleijn neck reflexes
marine disc centrifugal separator
melodramatization
mercuride
microsociety
nasal vein
new industrial research
non-weighted code
normal quantities
nuclear component
overweightedness
paspertin
past future
pemphigus crouposus
pisonia aculeatas
points of election
pouring spout
primary steam isolation valve
proof testing
propagation of disturbance
pump characteristic curve
qi in the earth
quinquenary
radio beacon diagram
radiolucent material
rainsuit
rotor concrete spraying machine
scaling invariance
secound
self-cleansing gradient
SEOULBANK
sfsisfstsys-s
shop activity forms
smell trouble
sporadin
state-owned sector
stinking elder
stored procedure
strata cinereum cerebelli
superseded map
taken to heart
tetracyclohexyltin
to Netflix
tse-tung
unstressful
VAFC
work-loom
Wuism
zoyas