时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(四)月


英语课

1.The World Health Organization is sending resources to Mexico to get a handle on an illness outbreak tied to a new strain of swine flu. So far, 57 deaths have been reported. Scientists are trying to determine if the same strain sickened eight people in Texas and California.


2.A South Carolina official says the state's worst blaze in 30 years was set by a person burning yard debris 1. The fire chief says the blaze started last weekend then rekindled 2 and turned into a raging wildfire.


3.Rhode Island authorities say they have fingerprints 3 and other evidence linking accused murder suspect Philip Markoff to a third crime scene. The medical student is charged with killing 4 a 25-year-old New York woman and robbing another woman in Boston.


4.Authorities say the White House was briefly 5 locked down and the US capitol evacuated 6 after a small plane wandered into restricted airspace around Washington. The air scare was over within minutes after military aircraft intercepted 7 the plane.



1 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
2 rekindled
v.使再燃( rekindle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • As soon as they met again his dormant love for her was rekindled. 他们一见面,他对她的旧情如乾柴烈火般又重新燃起。 来自辞典例句
  • Ive found rekindled my interest in re-reading the books. 我发觉这提起了我再次阅读这些书的兴趣。 来自互联网
3 fingerprints
n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 )
  • Everyone's fingerprints are unique. 每个人的指纹都是独一无二的。
  • They wore gloves so as not to leave any fingerprints behind (them). 他们戴着手套,以免留下指纹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
5 briefly
adv.简单地,简短地
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
6 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
7 intercepted
拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 ); 截住; 截击; 拦阻
  • Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave the hotel. 他正要离开旅馆,记者们把他拦截住了。
  • Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave by the rear entrance. 他想从后门溜走,记者把他截住了。
学英语单词
acneigenic
adorn'd
apple processing
atropholysis
Auchterderran
Azandes
balloches
batterymate
belt pinch
biabina
blown periphery
blue blood
boucheron
breach of police regulations
breast bone
burweed
Butamidum
cardiovascular endurance
Celcure
Chinese ink box
chromaticity coodinates
circular arc profile
cloghad
Commissura grisea posterior
conjugative effect
contradiction between
cooperative interaction
cosmic-ray proton
decalcifiers
direction
dissidents
drip tips
ease to
eelams
expansion of rail ends
Falicia
fanhood
file folders
first break time
gathering station
gesticultatory tic
group parameter
helicoidally
hemicrystalline
idololatric
in for it
inorganic base grease
input/output mode
interfund accounts
intervisiting
jawing
jiff
Jonah crabs
kulman
laparomyomectomy
length of elbow draft tube
light and acoustic signal
microvessels
mischanging
multi-pulse mode chain
multilayer control structure
natural polymers
Naya, R.
nonlinear multivariable system
on holiday
orudiss
overindulger
Peeso drill
phase-shifting device
pipeline characteristic curve
positive morality
prismatic coefficient
product forecast
proudhons
Pseudoimpotence
pulmoniac
rating design
receding chaser collapsing tap
run to excess
San Luisito
san sebastian international film festival
sanibel island
scarbroite
shift converter
ship principal dimensions
Shortia sinensis
silent-block mounting
Special-Purpose Entity
stemteema
stick by one's gun
stratigraphic analysis
sulfoichthyolate
supply routing or operation list
syllabize
tabular books
Te Wera
telescopic antenna
Thames Valley
to get people
vice activation
water use in rotation